Understanding Verb Forms in Writing
Learn about verb forms in writing, including base/infinitive, past tense, and past participle forms of regular and irregular verbs. Explore examples of verb forms and their usage in sentences.
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Writing Lab Verb Forms Go, Do, See, Write, Begin, etc.
Verb Forms The principle parts of a verb are its base/infinitive (eat, talk) used for the present tense with auxiliaries like can, should, will, and does. Its past form (ate, talked) and its past participle form (eaten, talked), used with has, had, or have for perfect tenses with forms of be (is, am, are, was, were, etc.) in passive constructions. Regular verbs like talk to form their past and past participle forms the regular way by simply adding d or ed to their base. Irregular verbs like eat and the ones on the next slide form their past and past participle forms in irregular and unpredictable ways. The past participle form of both regular and irregular verbs must always be used with an auxiliary/helping verb.
Verb Forms Examples Present/ Infinitive Go, do, see, write, begin. Past Tense Went, did, saw, wrote, began. Past Participle (have) gone, (have) done, (have) seen, (have) written, (have) begun.
Thats all, folks! This lesson is part of the UWF Writing Lab Grammar Mini-Lesson Series Lessons adapted from Real Good Grammar, Too by Mamie Webb Hixon To find out more, visit the Writing Lab s website where you can take a self-scoring quiz corresponding to this lesson
