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...''may'', ''might'', ''must'', ''shall'', ''should'', ''will'', ''would'', and ''ought''. Modal verbs have a wide variety of communicative functions, but these functions can gen ...

...|italic=no}}-rule, which is used to determine the verb end for past tenses and participles. The combined sets of rules are also known as the d/t-rules. ...fgaat aan 'drinkt')'' (You (''jij'') only drink t(ea) (if 'you' is present and precedes drinks (''drinkt'')) (informal) ...

{{Short description|Verbs that can't complete a clause (such as "going" or "to live")}} {{Cleanup rewrite|misuse of bold and italics per [[MOS:BOLD]], [[MOS:ITALIC]]|article|date=May 2023}} ...

{{English grammar}} ...sed verb form in English, accounting for more than half of verbs in spoken English.<ref>{{cite news |last=Alzuhairy |first=Uthman |year=2016 |title=The Freque ...

...itive verb]] can function as the root of an [[independent clause]]. Finite verbs are distinguished from [[non-finite verb]]s such as [[infinitive]]s, [[part ...originally said to be ''finite'' if their form limited the possible person and number of the subject. ...

{{short description|Basic form of the past tense in Modern English}} {{About|an English tense form|the comparable tense form in other languages|Preterite}} ...

...[predicand]] of ''trying'') is the subject of ''seem''. [[English language|English]] has raising constructions, unlike some other languages.{{citation needed| ....), Borsley (1996:126-144), Carnie (2007:285ff.).</ref> Raising predicates/verbs are related to [[control (linguistics)|control]] predicates, although there ...

...atterns of Inflection in Auxiliary Verb Constructions|date=2006-06-08|work=Auxiliary Verb Constructions|pages=302–389|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1 ...ish]], [[German language|German]] and [[French language|French]], with the auxiliary verb marked in bold: ...

...propositional attitude]]s, [[evidentials]], [[habitual aspect|habituals]], and generics. ...y is often seen as a window into broader metaphysical notions of necessity and possibility. ...

{{Transitivity and Valency}} ...e verbs are typically considered within a class apart from [[modal verb]]s and [[defective verb]]s. ...

...yntax)|raising]], although there are important differences between control and raising. ...contains two verbal predicates. Each time the control verb is on the left, and the verb whose arguments are controlled is on the right. The control verb d ...

...e the [[pluperfect]], denoting an event prior to a past time of reference, and the [[future perfect]], for an event prior to a future time of reference. ..., and so on.) The formation of the perfect in English, using forms of an [[auxiliary verb]] (''have'') together with the [[past participle]] of the main verb, i ...

...texts with non-finite clauses containing [[infinitive]]s, [[participle]]s and [[gerund]]s. In such accounts, a non-finite clause usually serves a grammat ...(such as an [[infinitive]], [[participle]], [[gerund]] or [[gerundive]]), and it is consequently much more likely that there will be no subject expressed ...

{{Globalize|article|Anglophone|2name=[[English-speaking world|the English-speaking world]]|date=May 2017}} ...also be used as a modal, since question words are more likely to appear in modal sentences, like (''Why was he walking?'') ...

...he physical activity program|VERB (program)|English usage of verbs|English verbs|the radio programme|The Verb{{!}}''The Verb''}} ...se|future]], to indicate that an action will be done, expressed with the [[auxiliary verb]] ''will'' or ''shall''. ...

{{Short description|Of verbs}} ...r|number]] of the subject of a sentence, as well as depending on the tense and mood. ...

{{Short description|Verbs in the English language}} {{English grammar}} ...

...za]], for example, has a ''potential'' conditional expressing possibility, and a ''[[veridical]]'' conditional expressing certainty. Other languages{{whic ...que je chanterais}}, "I said that I would sing" [future-in-the-past]). The English ''would'' construction may also be used for past habitual action ("When I w ...

{{English grammar}} ...is a verb or noun which carries most of the [[semantics]] of the compound, and determines its [[verb argument|arguments]]. It is usually in either [[uninf ...

...action took place. Some languages have a compound past tense which uses [[auxiliary verb]]s as well as an [[imperfect]] tense which expresses continuous or rep ...s a compound past ''([[passé composé]])'' for expressing completed events, and [[imperfect]] for continuous or repetitive events. ...