Verbs, Verbs, and More Verbs

Conjugation is Fun!

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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?

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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?"

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These are the PRESENT tense conjugations of the irregular verb "to have."

What are "I have," "you have," "he has," "we have," "they have?"

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These are the conjugated PAST tense forms of the verb "to be."

What are "I was," "you were," "he was," "we were," "they were?"

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These are the conjugated PRESENT tense forms of the verb "to go."

What are "I go," "you go," "she goes," "we go," "they go?"

Past, Present and Future, Etc.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Darune does not stop talking in class.

What is present tense?

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Richard stood next to the wall.

What is past tense?

1st, 2nd, 3rd

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This is the first person ("I") of the verb "to be."

What is "am" or "I am?"

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This is the third person singular ("he, she or it") of the verb "to have."

What is "has" or "he has?"

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This is the first person plural ("we") conjugation of the verb "to be?"

What is "were" or "we were?"

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This is the second person ("you") conjugation of the verb "to be."

What is "are" or "you are?"

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This is the first person ("I") past tense conjugation of the verb "to be."

What is "was" or "I was?"

Auxiliaries Help Us

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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?

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These are conjugations of the most common auxiliary verb in English: is, are, been, being.

What is "to be?"

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This auxiliary verb comes before a main verb to let the reader or listener know that the action takes place in the future. The contraction of this verb is: 'll.

What is "will?"

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These auxiliary verbs help form questions when used at the beginning of a sentence.

What are "do, does, did?"

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These are the auxiliary verbs from the following sentence: "I should have been walking down the hall instead of running."

What are "should," "have," and "been?"

Those Crazy Irregulars

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Past tense of "to break."

What is "broke?"

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Past tense of "to catch."

What is "caught?"

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Past tense of "to go."

What is "went?"

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Future tense of "to go"

What is "will go?"

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Past perfect form of "to go"

What is "had gone?"