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What is the adjectives tense of beautiful?

Adjectives do not have tenses. In English, only verbs show tense.


What is the progessive past participle of listen?

In English, there is no "progressive past participle".The past participle of listen is listened, and it is used with an auxiliary verb to create the perfect tenses. The past participle can be used in past, present, and future tenses. It is the job of the auxiliary verb to show the tense.Examples:had listened is the past perfect tensehave/has listened is the present perfect tensewill have listened is the future perfect tenseThe present participle of listen is listening. Present participles are used to create the progressive tenses, and like the perfect tenses, auxiliary verbs show the tense.Examples:was/were listening is the past progressive tenseam/is/are listening is the present progressive tensewill be listening is the future progressive tense


What is an example of irregular and regular verbs?

can - could draw - drew become - became forbid - forbade misunderstand - misunderstood overcome - overcame partake - partook mistake - mistook withstand - withstood slink - slunk


When do you use a verb or irregular verb?

In languages such as English, in which verbs are conjugated, regular verbs are conjugated in a regular or consistent way, while irregular verbs do not follow an obvious pattern in their conjugation. For example, in English the way to conjugate a regular verb is to add -ed to the past tense, and -ed to the past participle, e.g. "to kick" kick (present tense), kicked (past tense), and (had) kicked (past participle, i.e. "he had kicked him"). Irregular verbs, which are the ones which are used most often in English do not show this pattern. Examples are "sing, sang, sung" and "think, thought, thought." An especially irregular verb in English is "to be" which has the forms "is, was, (had) been," and the present tense of this verb is also irregular in person and number, e.g. "I am, you are, he/she is, we are, you are, they are." Most verbs do not show any difference between the 1st person ("I"), and the second person ("you") in the verb forms. The verb "to go" is also quite irregular, "go, went, gone." Most verbs in European languages show this distinction between irregular and regular verbs.


Where does apostrophe go on word womens?

Women is an irregular plural noun, and should be punctuated as "women's" to show possession. Example: The women's signs danced and waved in the air.

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Do most dictionaries show verb tense of regular and irregular verbs?

Most dictionaries other than "unabridged" ones show forms for the past and past participle of irregular verbs only and simply state the rules for generating these forms of regular verbs. Many dictionaries also include irregular forms as a main vocabulary item, with a reference to the parent verb.


What is past participle for show?

The past participle of show is shown. Show is an irregular verb, which is a verb where the simple past and the past participle tenses are often different. The simple past tense of show is showed.


Do dictionaries show only the irregular inflected forms of nouns verbs adjectives and adverbs?

yes


Why don't Spanish irregular verbs have accent marks?

Irregular verb forms can have accent marks (such as "fuéramos" which is a form of the verb "ser.") Accent marks aren't used to show whether words are regular or irregular. The accent in "fuéramos" shows that the syllable with "e" gets the stress.


What is a root word of showed?

The root word of "showed" is "show." In linguistics, a root is the base form of a word from which other words are derived. In this case, "show" is the root word, and by adding the past tense suffix "-ed," it becomes "showed."


What is the adjectives tense of beautiful?

Adjectives do not have tenses. In English, only verbs show tense.


How you can use award show in past continuous tense?

"Award show" isn't a verb and so doesn't have any tenses.


Can you show me some sentences with an antonym in them?

he is regularly irregular.


Who voices Mordecai in Regular Show?

the creater of regular show


Why tenses are used?

They are used to show when you did something. For example, if you did something in the past you would use -ed as the ending


What movie and television projects has Sam Marin been in?

Sam Marin has: Played Pops in "Regular Show" in 2010. Played RGB2 in "Regular Show" in 2010. Played Rigby in "Regular Show" in 2010. Played Benson in "Regular Show" in 2010. Played Muscle Man in "Regular Show" in 2010. Performed in "Regular Show" in 2010.


Will regular show be on stage?

There are no rumors as of yet stating that Regular Show will be made into a stage show.