ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Continuous And Progressive Aspects, Participle, Present Perfect

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL1007
• Professor: Nick Reimer

Document Summary

You can"t just tell whether something is a noun or verb from its meaning; you have to look at grammatical behaviour, the distribution of the word with respect of the rest of the sentence. The presence of suffixes (any of the following: "-s","-ed", "-ing"). If a word can take all of those suffixes, then it is probably a verb. Any verb in english will have either of these two major types of forms. Tense = the name of the grammatical class of markers that are used to signal the location of a situation in time. e. g. sing-sang-had sung-will sing (all different locations in which the event of singing could take place. ) Irregular verbs form their past tense in a different way: compound tenses. Infinitive forms - the base form of a verb. You can vary the tense of the verb in a sentence.