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A temporal grammatical category expressing the time when an action (or a state) takes, will take or took place.

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What are verbal forms?

Verbal forms are variations of a verb that indicate tense, aspect, mood, voice, and agreement with the subject. They can include the base form (infinitive), present tense, past tense, future tense, continuous forms, perfect forms, participles, and gerunds. Different languages have different systems for expressing these variations through verbal forms.


What tense is looking?

"Looking" is the present participle of "look".Looking can also be treated as Gerund (noun-verbal).


How do you make verbal question for present continuous tense?

What are you doing I am watching TV. Question word + be verb + subject + -ing verb Why + are + you + crying What + are + they + eating Who + are + you + meeting PS I didn't put question marks in these sentences because wiki answers wouldn't let me save the answer with questions in it


Is talked an abstract or concrete noun?

The word 'talked' is not a noun.The word 'talked' is the past tense of the verb to talk.The word 'talk' is also a noun, a concrete noun, a word for verbal communication, a word for a physical action.


Is the word growing future tense?

No. It is a present participle. The word 'growing' can be a participle or a gerund, depending on how it is used. If used as an adjective, it is a participle. Think of it as a verbal adjective. If used as a noun it is a gerund. Think of it as a verbal noun. Participle: "This is a growing site, because it gets more and more questions." Gerund: "Growing, for a site like this, requires getting more and more questions."

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What are verbal forms?

Verbal forms are variations of a verb that indicate tense, aspect, mood, voice, and agreement with the subject. They can include the base form (infinitive), present tense, past tense, future tense, continuous forms, perfect forms, participles, and gerunds. Different languages have different systems for expressing these variations through verbal forms.


What is the past tense of anticipation?

Anticipation is a noun, therefore it has no past tense. Anticipate is the verbal form of the word, of which anticipated is the past tense. Or was the question tongue in cheek? Cute!


What tense is looking?

"Looking" is the present participle of "look".Looking can also be treated as Gerund (noun-verbal).


What is the tenses?

It's another way of referring to the past tense.


What tense does this sentence demonstrate your mother has taught math at the local university?

The verbal phrase is 'has taught.' So, the answer is the present perfect tense. It consists of have/has + the past participle of the verb.


The grammatical category of verbal groups?

Verbals have the category of aspect, tense, correlation and voice (Ilyish B. A.)


Why were aboriginal myths written in past tense?

Myths are always told in the past tense (they began as verbal stories, only later written down.) The past tense is used because they purport to describe events that happened in the past.


How can you write word toil as future tense?

You could write "will toil" or "will be toiling." It depends on which verbal aspect you wish to use.


Use vituperative in a sentence?

Cinderella received much vituperation from her step sisters. i used it in a different tense, but it means verbal abuse (with language)


Is tattered an adjective?

Tattered is a verbal (past tense, past participle) that can be used as an adjective, much moreso than its use as a verb (to tatter).


Is holding her breath a gerund or participle?

"Holding her breath" is incomplete. Holding can be used as a participle to create a progressive tense, or it can be used as a gerund (verbal noun).As a present participle to create the present progressive tense: She is holding her breath.As a gerund: Holding her breath made her pass out.


Is whispering verbal or non verbal communication?

Whispering is verbal communication.