Uses of the present form of verbs

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what are the uses of the present form of verbs?

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Anonymouswhat are the uses of the present form of verbs?

Not sure what you mean.
People have different names for the simplest form of the verb, as you find it in the dictionary. Sometimes it's called "the bare infinitive - without the 'to.' "

Take a nice action verb like "to hit."
"Hit" is used for the simple present tense in all persons except 3rd singular.
It's also used for the simple past, although most verbs change, eg., "Today I take; yesterday I took."
It's also used in forming more complicated tenses:
I'm hit; I'm being hit; I shall hit.
"Hit" is also special because the same "form" serves as past participle, so it's used for the perfect tenses, "I have hit; I had hit; I have been hit; etc." Most verbs change yet again for the p.p., "I have taken; I had taken."
These uses are called "finite" because verbs with tenses have a time reference.
But the present "form" as you call it also is used as a non-finite verb, the bare infinitive:
"I must hit a home run, if we're going to win."

Uses of the present form of verbs

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