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Verbs (Non-finite verb (The present participle: walking, dancing, loving…
Verbs
Non-finite verb
The present participle: walking, dancing, loving (always ends in -ing and is always non-finite.
The past participle: walked, danced, loved
The infinitive: (to) walk, (to) dance, (to) love
Does not inflect to show changes in person, tense or number.
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He has danced and You have danced (the person changes here from first to second person but the finite verb changes from has to have)
I am dancing and They are dancing (the number changes from singular I to plural they, the finite verb which changes am to are)
Finite verb
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String of verbs in a sentence, one after another? ('You should have been listening!)' the first verb in the sequence is usually the finite verb.
To be: is, was
Have: had, has
Do: does, did
Can/could, shall/should, will/would, might are always finite verbs.
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Possibly the most significant word class of all: it is often the grammatical driving force in a sentence.
All sentences, except minor sentences, contain a verb.