A verb form which shows a particular tense, person (first person, second person, or third person), or number (singular or plural). For instance, am, is, was, and were are the finite forms of the verb to be.限定动词是指有时态、人称和数的变化的动词，比如be就是限定动词，它有am/is/ar...
But for a fluke of history, we could just as easily be sayingyou sindasyou are. An interesting footnote is that English once had three grammatical numbers and not just two. Modern English has two numbers: singular and plural. Old English had three: singular, dual, and plural. Each “numbe...
We also use the verb “to be” to talk about what exists. We use “there is” (singular) and “there are” (plural) for this. For example:“There’s a good film on TV tonight.”“There are some people in the shop.”For more information about how to use there is / there are,...
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Only a few verbs can be used as linking verbs: ·be: forms of be o Iam/Weare, Iwas/Wewere, ; o Youare/Youwere(for both singular and plural); o Heis/Sheis/Itis/Theyare, Hewas/Shewas/Itwas/Theywere. oWill be(future tense for all persons and numbers); ...
Forms of to be verbs Simple present and past tenses The verb to be is most commonly used in the simple present and simple past tenses. These tenses each use their own special words for to be, depending on the person and number of the subject. Simple present tense Singular Plural First ...
基础英语学习 Verb To Be VerbToBe I am He She is It We You are They VerbToBe PositiveForm I’m =Iam He’s =Heis She’s =Sheis It’s =Itis We’re=Weare You’re=Youare They’re=Theyare NegativeForm I’mnot=IamnotHeisn’t=HeisnotSheisn’t=SheisnotItisn’t=ItisnotWearen’...
Now let’s look at the simple past form of the verb “to be. Singular Notice that the simple past form of the verb “to be” in thesingular formis always “was”. However, as an exception we use“were”for the second person singular and plural. ...
If both conjuncts are singular NPs, the verb may display singular agreement - as would be expected, since coordinated structures inherit their syntactic properties from their individual components - but much more frequently, the verb displays plural agreement. On the basis of the LIMAS-corpus, a ...
Pluralnumber:The musicians play many songs. Imperativemood:Pass the salt, please. Why isverbimportant? The first records of the termverbcome from around 1350. It ultimately comes from the Latin nounverbum, meaning “a word.” Averbcould be said to be the most important word in a sentence ...