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Grammatical Tenses
Includes questions regarding the use of specific word forms to express periods in time (past, present and future tense).
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What is the past participle of crept?
The past participle of "crept" is "crept." It remains the same in both the past tense and past participle forms.
The past indicative and past participle of "buy" are both "bought".
Can you start a sentence with a present participle?
Sure! Like "Talking while eating is a bad habit." or "Writing a paper sounds hard."
The six tenses in English are present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. Each tense indicates when an action or state of being occurred in relation to the present moment.
What is expressing ownership in grammar terminology?
The genitive or possessive case of a noun or pronoun expresses ownership or at least possession, by the entity named by the noun or pronoun in the genitive case, of the immediately following noun or pronoun in the objective or subjective case.
What is the present participle of lay?
If by "lay" is meant the present indicative and infinitive form of "to lay", a transitive verb, the present participle is "laying". "Lay", however, is also the past indicative form of the irregular and intransitive verb "to lie", and if that is the meaning of "lay", it, like other past tense verbs, has no participle of its own.
Present.
Example: "He has a book." [When does he have it?] He HAS it now.
Has is the third person singular form (s form) of have. It is present tense. Has is used with he/she/it or a singular noun as subject.
He likes rice. The teacher likes rice.
What is the future tense of swear?
It is "will swear."
Example: "The man will swear if someone makes him mad."
Is it I have added or I added?
Both "I have added" and "I added" are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "I have added" is present perfect tense, indicating an action that was completed recently or has a connection to the present. "I added" is simple past tense, indicating a completed action in the past with no specific connection to the present.
What is the perfect tense of dig?
Past perfect tense - I had dug.
Present perfect tense - I have dug.
Future perfect tense - I will have dug.
How do you use word falling behind?
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What is the future tense of release?
future tenses are: will, going to and present continuous.
will = I will release the results next week.
going to = I am going to release the results next week. .
present continuous = I am releasing the results on Saturday. (today is Wednesday)
How do you form the past participle?
First, look in a dictionary or similar reference of adequate size to determine whether the verb has an irregular past participle shown. (There are lists of such verbs in Cassell's English-French and English-German dictionaries, and probably in others.) If the verb has an irregular past participle, use that.
Otherwise, the verb is regular, and its past participlecan be formed by following these rules, in order:
(1) If the third person singular present indicative form of the verb ends in the letter "e", add "d" to the third person singular present indicative spelling to obtain the past participle.
(2) If the third person singular present indicative form of the verb ends in the letter "y" and the letter "y" is not immediately preceded by a vowel, change the "y" in the third person singular present indicative spelling to "ied" obtain the past participle.
(3) In all other instances, add "ed" to the third person singular present indicative spelling to obtain the past participle. It may be necessary also to double any final consonant of the third person singular present indicative spelling to obtain the properly spelled past participle. This is particularly likely if the final consonant is preceded by a single vowel in the third person singular present indicative spelling. If not sure of whether to double such a consonant or not, look in a reference!.
What is the simple past singular of lay?
If "lay" is the infinite or the third person singular present indicative form, its past participle is "laid". Please note, however, that "lay" is also the past indicative form of the very confusingly similar verb "to lie", when that means to rely on something for support of one's body. When "to like" means "to falsify", its past participle is regular, "lied"!
