This is the term that describes taking a verb and changing its form to reflect the tense, person, and number it is supposed to represent.
What is conjugation?
100
This verb tense lets the reader or listener know that the action is currently happening. For example, "They walk down the street."
What is present tense?
100
This is the first person ("I") of the verb "to be."
What is "am" or "I am?"
100
These verbs are known as "helping" verbs. They help the main verb better express its meaning by giving the reader or listener extra information. For example, "I will go to the store" lets the reader or listener know that you "will go" to the store sometime in the future.
What are auxiliary or "helping" verbs?
100
Past tense of "to break."
What is "broke?"
200
These are the PRESENT tense conjugations of the regular verb "to run." This is how a reader or listener would know who is running.
What are "I run," "you run," "she runs," "we run," "they run?"
200
This tense lets the reader or listener know that the action isn't happening in the present, but happened sometime before. For example, "They walked down the street."
What is past tense?
200
This is the third person singular ("he, she or it") of the verb "to have."
What is "has" or "he has?"
200
These are conjugations of the most common auxiliary verb in English: is, are, been, being.
What is "to be?"
200
Past tense of "to catch."
What is "caught?"
300
These are the PRESENT tense conjugations of the irregular verb "to have."
What are "I have," "you have," "he has," "we have," "they have?"
300
This tense lets the reader or listener know that the action will happen at some point. For example, "They will walk down the street."
What is future tense?
300
This is the first person plural ("we") conjugation of the verb "to be?"
What is "were" or "we were?"
300
This auxiliary verb comes before a main verb to let the reader or listner know that the action takes place in the future. The contraction of this verb is: 'll.
What is "will?"
300
Past tense of "to go."
What is "went?"
400
These are the conjugated PAST tense forms of the verb "to be."
What are "I was," "you were," "he was," "we were," "they were?"
400
This tense tells the reader or listener that action began in the past, but still continues into the present. For example, "They have walked down the street for hours."
What is present perfect?
400
This is the second person ("you") conjugation of the verb "to be."
What is "are" or "you are?"
400
These auxiliary verbs help form questions when used at the beginning of a sentence.
What are "do, does, did?"
400
Future tense of "to go"
What is "will go?"
500
These are the conjugated PRESENT tense forms of the verb "to go."
What are "I go," "you go," "she goes," "we go," "they go?"
500
This tense tells the reader or listner that the action happened in the past, but before some other action. For example, "They had walked down the street to get some icecream."
What is past perfect?
500
This is the first person ("I") past tense conjugation of the verb "to be."
What is "was" or "I was?"
500
These are the auxiliary verbs from the following sentence: "I should have been walking down the hall instead of running."