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Chapter 2 Verbs and Verb Phrases Introduction
Chapter 2 Verbs and verb Phrases Introduction Verbs in English can be distinguished by the kinds of marking they can take and by what they can co-occur with. English Verbs all function inside verb Phrases (VPs). A simple VP consists of a lexical verb acting as the main verb of the VP and anywhere from zero to four auxiliary Verbs which are used to mark modality, aspect, and voice. (A compound VP consists of the conjunction of two or more simple VPs. Compound VPs will be discussed in Chapter 6 which deals with coordination.) VPs can be finite or non-finite. A finite verb phrase marks tense and agreement where appropriate, and has a subject which must be in the subject case if it is a pronoun1.
Present Tense am is are Past Tense was was were No other verbs shows agreement in the past tense, regardless of whether the verb is regular like play, like, work, or try or irregular like have, sing, or cut. The past tense forms of these verbs are played, liked, worked, tried, had, sang, and cut no matter what the subjects are. 6. a.
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