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English Verb Forms Of English Grammar

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According to ELT and Greebaum’s The Oxford English Grammar (1996) English verb forms can be systematized under two huge categories, each of them includes sub-categories of forms.
1.Inflected forms:
1.1. Base Form of verbs: In English grammar a regular English verb has only on principal part, from which all following verb forms can be derived. This form is available in dictionary and is called base form. For example, base form is paint, the inflected forms are: paint, paints, painted, painting. Hence we can notice, that the base may be called the bare infinitive and the another common way to referring to verbs is combination with -to + infinitive, for example, to paint (Greenbaum, S., 1996, Pp.118-121)
1.2. Irregular verbs have three principal parts (because the simple past and past participle are unpredictable). For instance, the verb write with the base form write, past form - wrote, and past participle - written, the remaining forms (writes and writing) are derived regularly (Greenbaum, S., 1996, Pp.126-128)
1.3. Also there are such verbs as do, say and have that additionally have irregular third person singular present tense forms.
1.4. That is, the copular verb be is irregular (forms: be, am, is, are, was, were, been and being),
1.5. On the opposition modal verbs (can and must) are defective verbs and are being used only in limited number of forms (Greenbaum, S., 1996, Pp.125-129).
Another important part of verb form analysis is grammatical base form or plain form

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