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    Verbs change form to indicate tense, with six main tenses that can be simple, progressive, or emphatic. The simple present and past tenses use a single word verb, while other tenses require helping verbs in addition to the main verb. Certain tenses may require the main verb or helping verb to agree with the subject in person and number. Each tense also has a progressive form using a helping verb to indicate ongoing actions, and some tenses have an emphatic form using "to do" to add emphasis, ask questions, or form negations.

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    Verbs change form to indicate tense, with six main tenses that can be simple, progressive, or emphatic. The simple present and past tenses use a single word verb, while other tenses require helping verbs in addition to the main verb. Certain tenses may require the main verb or helping verb to agree with the subject in person and number. Each tense also has a progressive form using a helping verb to indicate ongoing actions, and some tenses have an emphatic form using "to do" to add emphasis, ask questions, or form negations.

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    Verbs change form to indicate tense, with six main tenses that can be simple, progressive, or emphatic. The simple present and past tenses use a single word verb, while other tenses require helping verbs in addition to the main verb. Certain tenses may require the main verb or helping verb to agree with the subject in person and number. Each tense also has a progressive form using a helping verb to indicate ongoing actions, and some tenses have an emphatic form using "to do" to add emphasis, ask questions, or form negations.

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    Understanding

    Sentence
    Tenses
    Verbs change their forms to reflect differences in time
    six main tenses, each with three forms
    simple, progressive, and emphatic
    two of the tenses—the simple present and simple past
    —a complete verb is formed by using one word only
    all other tenses, two or more words are needed to form
    a complete verb
    called helping or auxiliary
    some tenses the main verb or one of the helping verbs
    may change form to agree with its subject in person and
    number
    Tenses

    the main verb or one of the helping verbs, in some


    tenses; may change form to agree with its subject in
    person and number
    Simple Form
    Here are regular and irregular examples of the simple
    form of the six main tenses:
    Progressive form
    Each tense also has a progressive form to indicate actions
    that are ongoing or in-process.
    Emphatic Form

    • Several tenses have an emphatic form, which uses


    the helping verb ‘to do’ combined with the present
    stem.
    • emphatic form is used for giving special stress, for
    asking questions, and for making negations.
    1 st
    e-lecture

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