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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Participles and verb tenses
I'm seventy-eight, and I speak and write at a level most people would consider educated; HOWEVER, having some spare time on my hands, I thought I would attempt to get a handle on a subject that has always defeated me: learning the formal terms for verb shuffling. I see charts with verb tenses, and I see charts with participles, but I don't see any charts with both verb tenses and participles. Why? Please explain how the two concepts relate to each other. Also, does anyone ever learn a language by memorizing the 12!!! verb tenses (Other English language tenses, as many as thirty of them, are marked by other words called auxiliaries.!!!!!!!)
and the six? participles? No wonder grammar isn't taught anymore, or so I hear.
and the six? participles? No wonder grammar isn't taught anymore, or so I hear.
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Anonymous verb shuffling I'm 72, and what's that? Anonymous I see charts with verb tenses, and I see charts with participles, but I don't see any charts with both verb tenses and participles. Why?
- Anonymous verb shuffling I'm 72, and what's that?
- Anonymous I see charts with verb tenses, and I see charts with participles, but I don't see any charts with both verb tenses and participles.
- Why?
- 1 - Participles are tenseless 2 - They are too easily formed to require a chart.
- ) Anonymous Please explain how the two concepts relate to each other.
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Anonymous verb shufflingI'm 72, and what's that?
AnonymousI see charts with verb tenses, and I see charts with participles, but I don't see any charts with both verb tenses and participles. Why?1 - Participles are tenseless
2 - They are too easily formed to require a chart. (The irregular past participles appear in all
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