Tenses Sentence Examples

He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.

Compound tenses are formed by the addition of certain particles and of the auxiliary verbs - a a y e, to have, a fi, to be, and a voi, to will.

In the past and present " tenses " the perfect and imperfect participles are used.

Another special feature of CastilianPortuguese is the complete absence of the form of conjugation known as inchoative (intercalation, in the present tense, of the syllable isc or esc between the radical and the inflexion), although in all the other tenses, except the present, Spanish shows a tendency to lay the accent upon the same syllable in all the six persons, which was the object aimed at by the inchoative form.

This dictionary contains 766 Spanish verbs, with all major regular and irregular verb conjugations in 13 tenses and moods.

Indeed, the notion of tenses in PIE is rather tendentious.

Speech will sound like a series of vowel sounds; word endings, which indicate plurals and tenses, will be missing.

Can you work out the past tenses of the following.

In compound tenses we need to include the direct object between the subject and the auxiliary verb.

This week we covered simple present, present continuous, simple past and past continuous tenses.

Growing ability to use past and future tenses and all parts of grammar.

Time lines are also a great way of conveying the meaning of different verb tenses.

The verb presents a variety of conjugations, expressing nearly all the moods and tenses of the Greek.

To the same century we may assign the grammarian Theodosius of Alexandria, who, instead of confining himself (like Dionysius Thrax) to the tenses of Tb rTW in actual use, was the first to set forth all the imaginary aorists and futures of that verb, which have thence descended through the Byzantine age to the grammars of the Renaissance and of modern Europe.

All tenses of reflexive verbs except the imperative and present participle are formed by prefixing the pronoun which indicates the object to the verb, in the dative or genitive case (abbreviated) as the verb may require; but in the reflexive imperative and present participle the verb precedes the pronoun; e.g.

The subjunctive tenses are used to describe feeling, emotions and moods not necessarily linked to facts and reality.

The tenses of the two verbs in the sending are different.

They seem to have particular problems with inflection and word forms, such as leaving off endings when forming verb tenses (for example, the -ed ending when forming the past tense).

They seem to have particular problems with inflection and word forms, such as leaving off endings when forming verb tenses (for example, the ed ending when forming the past tense).

One other important note when conjugating reflexive verbs is that in past tenses where the verb requires an auxiliary verb such as passé composé, reflexive verbs always take être.

The key to learning the forms properly is to be exposed to them several times in several different tenses.

If you decide to use CDs and Internet-learning programs, you will have more freedom to decide exactly which verbs to learn, and which tenses to perfect, which allows you to learn exactly what you need to in a short amount of time.

If you need specialized vocabulary or literary tenses in order to be able to read French literature, you'll want to skip beginner French classes and go to a vocabulary class or a French class that focuses on reading.

As in Bantu, the verb presents a multiplicity of forms, including one present, three past and future tenses, with personal endings complete, passive, interrogative, conditional, elective, negative and other forms, each with its proper participial inflexions.

The typical Coptic root thus became biliteral rather than triliteral, and the verb, by means of periphrases, developed tenses of remarkable precision.

In the Ebon language, however, the tenses are sometimes marked; but in that the simple form of the verb is frequently given.

No new second aorists, we may be sure, were formed any more than new " strong " tenses, such as came or sang, can be formed in English.

The verb has four tenses in the indicative, one in the subjunctive, and one in the imperative.

These girls are having a major difficulty conjugating verbs in different tenses.

Whereas the Hebrew verb is devoid of real tenses, and only expresses an action as completed or as in process without indicating time past, present or future, Syriac has by the help of an auxiliary verb constructed a set of tenses.

Protagoras was the first to systematize grammar, distinguishing the parts of speech, the tenses and the moods.