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• What are linking verbs, helping verbs, and action verbs? How are they different?
• What's the difference between a verb and an action verb?
• What is a passive verb? What are some examples?
• What is a linking verb?
• Is "is" a verb?
• What is a verb tense shift?
• What is a compound verb and some examples?
• What is the definition of an action verb?
• What's the difference between a verb, adverb, and adjective?
• What is a verb phrase?
• In which cases do we use the subjunctive form of a verb?
• When to use I? When to use Me?
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• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: The ball was thrown by the quarterback who was running from the linebacker.
• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: The car was bought by the man who is speaking with his wife.
• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: The land is owned by the farmer who grows corn.
• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: He is wearing a shirt that was just washed.
• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: He jumped when he was barked at by the dog.
• What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: We are repairing the sidewalk because it has been walked on too much.
• Forgive my ignorance, but, are transitive and intransitive verbs equivalent to the active and passive voice?
• I don't understand intransitive verbs. ex: the saleslady stood for forty-five minutes. Is this transitive or not?
• What verbs don't use Present Perfect Continuous?
• How do you write the following sentence with a defective verb in the future tense?: I can take a hike today.
• How do you write the following sentence with a defective verb in the past tense?: I can try to fix it.
• How do you write the following sentence with a defective verb in the past tense?: We could build the shed.
• What is a reflexive verb?
• What are examples of transitive verbs?
• What would be the intransitive verb in this paragraph?
• What are fun ways to teach transitive and intransitive verbs?
• How do you differentiate a linking verb, a transitive verb, and an intransitive verb? I am having trouble determining the differences.
• What is a compound verb?
• What does the pluperfect subjunctive mean?
• What English helping verb is always used to translate the pluperfect tense?
• What is the past tense, third person, plural form of "to have"?
• What is the present progressive form of a verb?
• Can the object of a transitive verb come before?
• What is an active transitive verb?
• What are examples of sentences with passive verbs?
• What is the best definition of a passive verb?
• What is the difference between active and passive verbs?
• What is the passive verb in this sentence? Wind turbines *provide* them with a great source of clean energy. Is "provide" a passive verb?
• Can someone explain passive vs. active voice? Please explain the rule and provide an example. This is something I want to learn once and for all. I made it through a good college never really understanding the rule.
• What is the imperfect tense?
• When do you use the imperfect tense?
• What's the difference between a past tense verb and passive verb? I'm a bit confused.
• What is the passive form of the sentence? Let's go to school.
• What is passive voice?
• What is a passive voice and how do we use it?
• How can I avoid using passive voice?
• Is there an imperfect tense in English? If so, what is the difference between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense?
• Is "running" a verb? My girlfriend told me that one of her teachers told her that running wasn't a verb. He told the class that in the sentence "I was running." that "was" is the verb.?
• What is the past participle of "to talk"?
• What the past participle of "hold"?
• What are finite and infinite verbs?
• Which sentence contains a verb in the simple past tense?
• Are "would," "been," and "being" considered to be verbs?
• What is the correct verb listing below in the following order: present participle, past, and past participle?
• Could you help me write sample sentences that use a participle about hockey? The sentences need a participle, past participle, and present participle.
• Could you please explain past participle grammar with examples? Is it used for past tense or present tense?
• What is the past participle of "smite"? "Smote" sounds kind of right, but not really. Someone said it would be "smitten," but that means you are in love. I'm confused. Please help.
• How does a past participle work as an adjective?
• What is the past participle of "get"?
• What are the past tense and past participle forms of the verb "write"?
• What is the past tense and past participle for the word "break"? I mean, if you use the breaks on your car. Do you say "I breaked quickly."?
• What is the difference between a linking and auxiliary verb?
• What part of speech is the word "be" and why?
• How do you differentiate between a noun, verb, adverb, and adjective?
• What is the difference between verb form and verb tense?
• Can you help me identify the passive voice verbs and active voice verbs in these sentences?
• Is the word "fight" a noun? And what is a verb? I think it is but I'm not sure. I've looked at a couple websites with lists of nouns, but it's not on there.
• What are transitive and intransitive verbs? Could you help with whether the underlined verb is transitive or intransitive the following sentences?
• When are verb agreements, and why are they important?
• What part of speech is "to" before the verb? Is that an infinitive? Can you have a split verb infinitive?
• Is "summit" a verb?
• Is "end" or "ending" a verb?
• What makes a verb have a tense? I need help with the example below.
• Could you help me identify the verb or verb phrase? I'm not really sure what a verb phrase is.
• What follows a linking or action verb?
• Is "will" a helping or linking verb?
• Is "fellowship" a noun or verb? This is a question of semantics and not of religion.
• Is "seemed" a verb? For example: The cat seemed sick.
• What are examples of infinitive verbs?
• Is "scattered" a verb? For example,"Scattered around the sable wooden bench, the leaves skipped across the ground."
• Which sentence contains a linking verb? What is a linking verb?
• Could you help me identify whether the verb in this sentence is an action verb, a being verb, or a compound verb? And why?
• Which sentence contains a linking verb? Could you explain why?
• What is the function of a transitive verb? Could you explain the answer?
• Is "am" a noun or verb? For example, "I am a winner."
• Is "did" a linking verb?
• Could you help me identify the correct subject/verb agreement? I'm not sure.
• How do you know whether a verb is transitive or intransitive?
• Could you explain the correct subject-verb agreement in the example below?
• Could you help me complete these sentences using the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets?
• What is the past perfect second person singular of "have"?
• What are some examples of the pluperfect tense?
• What is the difference between the pluperfect and past perfect in English?
• Is the pluperfect still used in English?
• What is the past tense of "be"? Could you tell me all the forms of be? My book asked me to use be in a past perfect tense.
• What is the difference between "If I were you.." and "If I was you..." Which is correct?
• When will we use "have had" and "had had" in sentences?
• Are "didn't know" and "hadn't known" grammatically interchangeable? Or is one better than the other?
• Why is it correct to say "The purpose of this visit is to help TO develop Polo world wide." Instead of "The purpose of this visit is to help develop Polo worldwide." When do you have to use "to"?
• What is the the longest verb ending in "-ing" in the English dictionary?
• Which is correct grammar? "He has already come." or "He has already came"?
• What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs in Spanish?
• What is an irregular verb?
• What is an irregular verb?
• Are gave and put irregular verbs?
• What is the irregular verb of put?
• What is a definition of irregular verb in Spanish?
• What type of verbs are sang, felt and went?
• How many Irregular verbs are there in the English language?
• What are the 3 irregular verbs in Japanese?
• What type of verb is it when you don't simply add an "s" at the end when the subject changes to third person singular?
• Do all irregular verbs make their past forms using the same pattern? Can an irregular verb's past and past participle forms be different from one another?
• Is gustar a regular verb in Spanish? How is it conjugated?
• Is the word "write" an example of a(n) regular verb, irregular verb, a past participle or a present participle?
• What is the past tense of the verb "to strive"?
• What is the past tense of the word "burst"?
• I have a table which shows me how to conjugate verbs in the past tense but it only tells me for regular verbs, être, avoir, dire, faire and aller. How do I conjugate other irregular verbs in the past tense?
• How many Spanish verbs are there? And what are they?
• What is the best way to learn how to conjugate verbs in Spanish?
• What is the past, present and future tense of the French word (aller)?
• How many irregular present tense verbs are there in French? How many irregular verbs are there in other tenses?
• Is "is" a verb? If not, what is the verb in this sentence: "Although the school is quite small, it has a lovely field for students to play in."?
• Can we use irregular verbs as regular?
• Which language has the hardest and most verb conjugations, French or Spanish?
• What's the difference between regular verbs and just reflexive verbs?
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• What is meant by the "perfect" tense of verbs?
• What is an easy way to teach present perfect tense so my ESL students can understand it?
• How do you form the perfect tense structure of sentences?
• How do you form the past perfect tense of verbs?
• What are perfect tense verbs?
• What are some examples of future perfect tense?
• Why is perfect tense called "perfect"?
• How can the past and present perfect tense be explained to a non-native speaker?
• Is this sentence: "I was eating my dinner when the phone rang" both imperfect and perfect tense? "I was eating dinner" is imperfect tense and "when the phone rang" is perfect tense, right? Thanks! :)?
• I'm writing a flashback in a book. Should I write it in first person and present tense like the rest of the book? Or should I write the flashback (4 months earlier) in first person past tense?
• Is present tense always perfect tense or can there be imperfect present tense? What about future tense? Is future tense perfect tense or imperfect? Can it be both?
• What is the past, present and future tense of "to laugh" "to sing" and "to cry"?
• What is the present perfect tense of the verb "to throw"?
• When the past perfect tense is used in a sentence, what does it tell you? When the present perfect tense is used, what does it tell you?
• What is an example of a sentence that uses future perfect continuous tense?
• What is the past perfect progressive tense of the verb "try"?
• Do Americans use the present perfect tense very often or is the simple past used in conversation more often?
• How are past perfect and past perfect continuous used in normal conversational English?
• I'm aware that the use of the past perfect tense usually implies a flashback or something similar when writing fiction. Does the entire flashback need to be in past perfect or can it just start out with it?
• I am writing a letter to an organisation and wonder which is correct: "I have been to your store today and I see. . " or "I had been to your store today and I saw. . ." Which tense is correct and why?
• Which verb tense refers to an action completed before a set time in the future? Which verb tense refers to an action completed before a set time in the past?
• Does a past participle always have a helping verb? What are examples of helping verbs?
• When do we use "has had"? Is it a past perfect tense?
• Is "has made" present tense?
• How does one use the future perfect tense and the future-in-the-past perfect tense?
• Is the past tense for "sink," sank or sunk?
• How can I rewrite past simple sentences using present perfect?
• In cover letters is it best to use past tense or present perfect tense?
• What popular song has many verb forms using present perfect tense?
• When do we use the third tense in English with specific verbs in present perfect tense, for example: I have finished, He has worked, We have gone?
• What is the formula for past perfect tense?
• "Has anyone seen my blue sweater with the white snowflake designs?" What is the verb tense of this sentence?
• How do you differentiate between the use of present perfect tense and simple past tense in English grammar?
• What is an example of a sentence that is written in third person, present tense?
• What is the present perfect tense for the word "ask"?
• Is it true that the simple past tense is connected to the present, but the present perfect is not? Is it true that the simple past tense and the present perfect tense are identical in their time relationship to the present?
• How do you identify transitive and intransitive verbs?
• What is a transitive verb phrase?
• What is an intransitive complete verb?
• Is "come" a transitive or intransitive verb?
• Do transitive active and transitive passive sentences both have a receiver of the action?
• What is an incomplete verb?
• What kind of a verb is "to be"?
• Is "said" a transitive or intransitive verb?
• Is a transitive verb with a direct object in the passive, active, or subjunctive voice?
• What are 3 verbs that can only be used as transitive verbs and 3 that can only be used as intransitive verbs?
• "The sun rises in the east." Is 'rises' a transitive verb or intransitive verb?
• Is "became" a linking verb in this sentence: "The water became ice when the temperature dropped."?
• If the object of a two-word separable transitive phrasal verb is a pronoun, where must the object go?
• How is the verbal used in the sentence: "My favorite activity is running."?
• How are reflexive verbs used?
• What are some examples of reflexive verbs?
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• In the English language, what is the only verb that doesn't change its spelling regardless of the tense used?
• What does this sentence mean: "Impersonal simply indicates a part of speech which does not change according to grammatical person."?
• Is the word "both" singular or plural?
• What is the definition of "is"?
• How and when do you use "being" and "been"?
• Can anyone can explain subject verb agreement?
• When you say, "May God's love be with you" or "May all your wishes come true" what does the word "may" mean?
• In the case of defective verbs, how are they changed from the direct into the indirect form of speech?
• What is the definition of irregular verbs?
• Is the purpose of grammar to make English behave like Latin?
• How do you use the word "deficit" in a sentence? Is it a noun?
• What is "a part of speech"?
• Is there any difference between the words "guarantee" and "warranty"?
• What is the difference between to recall and to recollect?
• If the subject is singular, do you change it to "needs not"? For example, would it be "He need not send a letter" or "He needs not send a letter"?
• What is a compound sentence? What is a compound word?
• Is it correct to say "me and my family" or "my family and I"?
• Is the use of a comma correct in this sentence: "Eddie’s father could not accept that his son had stood up to him, and therefore alienated himself from his family."?
• What word means "to speak from memory"?
• What are some descriptive words to describe the horrors of war?
• What is an example of hypercorrection in the English language?
• What is a synonym for "a bad thing"?
• What are the opposites of fun loving and precious?
• When should you use "dissatisfied" and when should you use "unsatisfied"?
• What is the difference between mistaken and mistake?
• What does the word "forestall" mean?
• What is the meaning of the prefix "para"?
• Are there other versions of the word foremost, like there are other versions of, friendly (friendlier and friendliest)?
• What are defective verbs?
• What does imperative mood mean in grammar?
• What is the imperative mood used to express?
• Why do writers use imperative mood?
• Can you have two verbs next to each other in a sentence, for example, "go run away"?
• Can you write "you decide" in the non-imperative?
• What are the different kinds of sentences and their meanings?
• In the sentence, "Bring me some water and call me," is "me" a part of a verb phrase or a noun phrase?
• How do I know whether I should use the infinitive or conjugated form of a word?
• What are examples of adjectives used as adverbs?
• What do English pronoun forms show besides gender?
• What is an indicative sentence?
• How do I make this sentence imperative: "Nothing could stop him now."?
• What are imperative verbs?
• What is the conditional imperative?
• What are the two moods a verb can take besides subjunctive and indicative?
• In this sentence: "Many people insist that our city is the most beautiful in the world," what is the mood of the verb "insist"? A) subjunctive B) imperative C) indicative?
• What is a sentence that correctly uses the word "imperative"?
• What is the effect of using an imperative verb?
• What is the difference between modals and the subjunctive/imperative mood?
• Is "must" an imperative verb?
• Is this interrogative sentence or imperative sentence: "Tell me something about yourself."?
• How can the words "magnanimous" and "felicity" be used in two separate sentences using imperative forms of a verb?
• What is the difference between imperatives and directives?
• What is one word that describes you have to do something as opposed to your desire to do something?
• What does indicative, subjunctive and imperative mean?
• Must a complete sentence have a predicate and a verb?
• Is the expression "Be patient" grammatically correct?
• This statement, "Make juice," has a subject and a predicate. Is it a complete sentence?
• What is the difference between "be" and "are"? For example, which of the following is correct? "It is essential that our pilots BE given the best possible training." or "It is essential that our pilots ARE given the best possible training."?
• Can (thou) "beest" and (thou) "art" be used interchangeably?
• I know if a speaker address another character by their name directly it should have commas around it. But what if they used the pronoun you instead. Such as, "You leave her alone!" Should there be a comma after "you"?
• What are some examples of finite verbs?
• In this sentence, is the verb transitive or intransitive verb: "The sun shines brightly during the day."?
• Is this proverb, "Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are," a declarative or an imperative sentence? What are the reasons for your answer?
• For the introduction to my essay, can I start a sentence with the word "imagine"?
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• What is the mood of the verb in the sentence: "The old shack looked as if it was about to collapse."?
• What is the voice of the verb in the sentence, "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."?
• What is the voice of the verb in the sentence: "An agreement was made by the leaders of the two countries."?
• Can someone come up with a good counterargument for this claim? Please back it up.
• What is the simple predicate of the sentence, "During storms, people in open areas should crouch close the ground."?
• What is the complete predicate of the sentence: Most of the basketball team will be attending the winter dance?
• Is ignore the root of ignorant and ignorance?
• I'm writing a story. How do I describe love?
• Can I create a sentence that says that a girls lassitude permeated throughout her?
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• What and how to use the d's?
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• Is it 'hanged out' or 'hung out' (past tense)?
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• I am supposed to find 1 present verb, 1 present participle verb, 3 past verbs, 1 past participle verb, and 1 future verb in the paragraph below. Please help ASAP?
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• 1. Swimming is my hobby. 2. I like swimming. 3. He is swimming in the pool. In which of these sentences 'swimming' is a gerund an in which one/ones it is used as a participle?
• Which of the following is correct passive voice of 'I know him well'? a) He is well known by me. b) He is well known to me. c) He is known well by me. d) He is known well to me. e) He is known by me well. f) He is known to me well.
• Where to use the modal verbs such as must, should, ought to etc? Can you explain with examples? What is the difference between them?
• Is walking a verb or a gerund in the sentence: "We will be walking a mile during recess today."?
• Which sentence has a strong verb?
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• What is the principal part of the verb "trying"?
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