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Uses of nonfinite verbs
Uses of verb combination types
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Overview
- English English language
- Verb
- Finite verb
- Non-finite Non-finite verb
- Auxiliary verbs Auxiliary verb
- Tense Grammatical tense
- Aspect Grammatical aspect
- Mood Grammatical mood
- Modality Modality (grammar)
- Voice Voice (grammar)
- English verbs
- Word order
- English clause syntax
- Thou
- Present tense
- Gnomic aspect
- Future tense Uses of English verb forms
- Historical present
- Headline language
- Subject Subject (grammar)
- Third-person Grammatical person
- Modal verb English modal verbs
- English subjunctive
- Past tense
- Subjunctives Subjunctive
- Inflection
- Periphrastically Periphrasis
- To be going to Going-to future
- Future-in-the-past
- Future tense § Expressions of relative tense Future tense
Inflected forms of verbs
- Indicative
- Preterite
- Irregular English irregular verbs
- -ing
Verbs in combination
- Verb catenae Catena (linguistics)
- Phrasal verb
Tenses, aspects and moods
- Tense–aspect–mood
- Latin
- Conjugation Grammatical conjugation
- English language teaching
- Inflectional
- Periphrastic
- Compound Compound verb
Active and passive voice
- Active voice
- Agent Agent (grammar)
- Voice Grammatical voice
- Passive voice
- Patient Patient (grammar)
- Lexical verb
- Paraphrased Paraphrase
Negation and questions
- Negation Negation (grammar)
- Interrogative
- Subject–auxiliary inversion
- English auxiliaries and contractions
- Questions English grammar
Modal verbs
- Modality Linguistic modality
Uses of verb combination types
- Simple past
- Inversion Subject-auxiliary inversion
- Emphatic statements Emphatic statements?action=edit&redlink=1
- Used to
- Stative
- Pluperfect
- Habitually Habitual aspect
- Headlines Headline
- Adverbial clause
- Present perfect
- Dependent clauses
- Future perfect
- English conditional sentences § Use of will and would in condition clauses English conditional sentences
- British English
- Conditional perfect
Have got and can see
Been and gone
- Go Go (verb)
- Copula verb
Conditional sentences
Expressions of wish
Indirect speech
- Indirect speech
- Content clauses Content clause
- Indirect questions Indirect question
- Unreal Irrealis mood
- Sequence of tenses
Uses of nonfinite verbs
- Infinitive
- Had better
- Raising-to-subject Raising verb
- Direct object
- Predicative expression
- Cleft sentences Cleft sentence
- Elliptical Ellipsis (linguistics)
- Lemma Lemma (morphology)
- Headwords Headword
- Citation form
- Split infinitive
- Intransitive verbs Intransitive verb
- Apposition
- Expletive pronoun
- Oh, to be in England Home Thoughts from Abroad
- Am to
- English relative clauses § Nonfinite relative clauses English relative clauses
- Zero Zero (linguistics)
- Relative pronoun
- Stranded preposition
- Adjective phrase
- Verb phrase ellipsis
- Present participle
- Adjectival Adjective
- Adverbial Adverb
- Participial phrases Participial phrase
- Dangling participle
- Conjunction Conjunction (grammar)
- Nominative absolute
- Types of participle Participle
Deverbal uses
- Deverbal noun
- Deverbal adjective
- Prepositional phrase
- Indirect object
- Determiners Determiner
- Possessive Possessive (linguistics)
- Alternative meanings Syntactic ambiguity
- Agent nouns Agent noun
- Verbal noun
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Important terminology
present past used perfect see verb progressive tense verbs aspect also english conditional time future would form uses simple forms
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| go | instance of | Finite verb forms | 0.80 | text |
| goes | instance of | Finite verb forms | 0.80 | text |
| wentNonfinite forms such as | instance of | Finite verb forms | 0.80 | text |
| go on | instance of | items | 0.80 | text |
| slip away | instance of | items | 0.80 | text |
| break off | instance of | items | 0.80 | text |
| Latin | instance of | In contrast to languages | 0.80 | text |
| though | instance of | In contrast to languages | 0.80 | text |
| English has only limited means for expressing these categories through verb conjugation | instance of | In contrast to languages | 0.80 | text |
| and tends mostly to express them periphrastically | instance of | In contrast to languages | 0.80 | text |
| using the verb combinations mentioned in the previous section | instance of | In contrast to languages | 0.80 | text |
| will | instance of | is sometimes applied to periphrastic constructions involving modals | 0.80 | text |
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