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Grammimes
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The verb is the doing word which states what action is, has or will be taking place. Some individual words in English may be a noun, or a verb, or an adjective, depending on its job in the sentence. A good way to check if a words is a verb is by putting it into the infinitive;
to sing to walk to eat to breathe
The word verb has arisen from the Latin 'uerbum' which translates as a word, a verb. Its Indogermanic root is WER, to speak or to say.
Grammimes allow the child to indicate the tense of the verb. The word tense is derived from the French 'temps' and the Latin 'tempus' which both have the meaning time which is acknowledged in the English word temporal.
The PRESENT tense may be expressed as SIMPLE - I walk or as a COMPOUND present tense:
in its continuous form - I am walking (the action will continue for a while longer)
In its emphatic form - I'd do walk ( to stress or emphasise what action is taking place)
By adding the words not the negative may be formed - I am not walking, I do not walk
The FUTURE tense deals with future actions and is formed as a COMPOUND - I shall go
or as a negative I shall not go
or in its continuous form - I shall be going, I shall not be going
or in its future perfect form - I shall have gone
or in its continuous future perfect form - I shall have been going
The PAST tense is occasionally known as the aorist and may be expressed in other forms which are briefly summarised below;
Simple
I walked
Imperfect
I was walking
Perfect
I have walked
Continuous Perfect
I have been walking
Pluperfect
I had walked
Continuous Pluperfect
I had been walking
