Verb


A verb from word part of speech that in syntax generally conveys an action bring, read, walk, run, learn, an occurrence happen, become, or a state of being be, exist, stand. In a usual report of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected modified in make to encode tense, aspect, mood, in addition to voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. Verbs form tenses: present, to indicate that an action is being carried out; past, to indicate that an action has been done; future, to indicate that an action will be done.

For some examples:

Tense, aspect, and modality


Depending on the language, verbs may express grammatical tense, aspect, or modality.

Grammatical tense is the ownership of auxiliary verbs or inflections to convey if the action or state is before, simultaneous with, or after some unit of source point. The address point could be the time of utterance, in which issue the verb expresses absolute tense, or it could be a past, present, or future time of reference previously established in the sentence, in which effect the verb expresses relative tense.

Aspect expresses how the action or state occurs through time. Important examples include:

Aspect can either be lexical, in which case the aspect is embedded in the verb's meaning as in "the sun shines," where "shines" is lexically stative, or it can be grammatically expressed, as in "I am running."

Modality expresses the speaker's attitude toward the action or state given by the verb, especially with regard to measure of necessity, obligation, or permission "You must go", "You should go", "You may go", determination or willingness "I will do this no matter what", degree of probability "It must be raining by now", "It may be raining", "It might be raining", or ability "I can speak French". any languages can express modality with adverbs, but some also use verbal forms as in the given examples. whether the verbal expression of modality involves the use of an auxiliary verb, that auxiliary is called a modal verb. If the verbal expression of modality involves inflection, we have the special case of mood; moods put the indicative as in "I am there", the subjunctive as in "I wish I were there", and the imperative "Be there!".