Grammar - Begginer - Verbs

Verbs 

Verbs in English have four basic parts:

 Base form       -ing form            Past tense            Past participle
work               working            worked                      worked
play                        playing              played                     played
listen                listening               listened                   listened
Most verbs are regular: they have a past tense and past participle with –ed (worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular.

Level: beginner

Basic parts

Verbs in English have four basic parts:

 Base form            -ing form   Past tense Past participle
work                     working    worked                worked
play                              playing     played                 played
listen                      listening          listened        listened

Most verbs are regular: they have a past tense and past participle with –ed (worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular.

Verb phrases

Verb phrases in English have the following forms:

a main verb:
                       main verb
We                          are           here.
I                         like            it.
Everybody        saw          the accident.
We                        laughed.
The verb can be in the present tense (are, like) or the past tense (saw, laughed).

the auxiliary verb be and a main verb in the –ing form:
               auxiliary be           -ing form
Everybody is                    watching.
We                were                     laughing.

A verb phrase with be and –ing expresses continuous aspect. A verb with am/is/are expresses present continuous and a verb with was/were expresses past continuous.

the auxiliary verb have and a main verb in the past participle form:
                auxiliary have    past participle
They         have                  enjoyed        themselves.
Everybody has                         worked         hard.
He                 had                         finished      work.

A verb phrase with have and the past participle expresses perfect aspect. A verb with have/has expresses present perfect and a verb with had expresses past perfect.

a modal verb (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) and a main verb:
                modal verb main verb
They          will                 come.
He                 might         come.