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I'm French, but I think in English they're called prefix, radical and suffix. Prefix is anything you put before the radical, the radical is the "root" (what you will always find in a conjugated verb) and the suffix is what comes after the radical =)
Verb Form
Depending on the right context, sink is already a verb. For example "to sink something" is an action and therefore a verb.
Conjugation in English is regular in all but a few verbs. Problems are usually in the principal parts. Principal parts of to awake ( a weakened, intransitive form of to awaken) are: awake, awaking, awoke, awoken. Awaked is rare.
The word 'sink' is a noun (sink, sinks) and a verb (sink, sinks, sinking, sank, sunk).The noun 'sink' is a word for a basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe and supply of water; a word for a thing.The verb 'sink' means to drop below the surface of something; to descend.
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The principal parts of a verb are the forms of the verb that you need to know in order to derive all the verb's possible forms. For "sing" these are:present tense: singpast tense: sangpast participle: sung
base form of the verb combined with different auxiliary verbs or helping verbs, such as "be," "do," and "have," as well as different verb endings to indicate the time of the action (past, present, future). These combinations create the various verb tenses in English.
I'm French, but I think in English they're called prefix, radical and suffix. Prefix is anything you put before the radical, the radical is the "root" (what you will always find in a conjugated verb) and the suffix is what comes after the radical =)
The principal parts of verbs are typically the base form (infinitive), past tense, past participle, and present participle.
Verb Form
Depending on context, sink is already a verb. For example "to sink something" is an action and therefore a verb.
Depending on the right context, sink is already a verb. For example "to sink something" is an action and therefore a verb.
The verb form of "sink" is "sank" for past tense and "sunk" for past participle. For example: The ship sank in the storm. The anchor has sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
The three parts of a speech are the introduction, which includes an attention-grabbing opening and a clear statement of the main points, the body, which presents the supporting arguments and evidence, and the conclusion, which summarizes the key points and provides a memorable closing statement.
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