73. HOW TO ANALYZE A VERB
A verb shows action; or, in the single exception of the copulative verb, denotes a state of being.
Action can happen at various times:
It can occur in the present time
It can be described as having taken place in the past
It can be described as being expecteded to occur in the future
Thus we have three principal tenses (or times) of English verbs:
Present Tense: He is a young man
Past Tense: He was a boy
Future Tense: He will be an old man
More subtle variations of time are indicated by others tenses:
CONDITIONAL TENSE:
"He would be happy".
As the name implies, such a tense is used to show a condition dependent on another idea.
"He would be happy if he had more money"
"He would be sad if he had less money"
PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE:
"He has been ill"
This tense indicates action that started in the past and continued into, or nearly into, the present
The inplication of the illustration used is that he has just recently recovered, or is perhaps even now in the process of recovering. In the sentence, "He has worked hard all his life" The present perfect tense implies either that he is still working hard or just recently stopped.
PAST-PERFECT TENSE:
"He had always believed in Santa Clauss until his friendes disabused him of that juvenile notion". This tense indicates action that started at some time in the past remoter than some other past time mentioned. This sounds more complicated than it is. In the illustration used, we have two verbs: had believed, a past-perfect tense; and disabused, a past tense. The action of believing in /santa Clauss occured prior to the action of being disabused. "He had failed to make many friends until he read Dale Carnegie´s book". Both verbs (had failed and read) show action in the past time, but which happened first, the failure or the reading?
FUTURE-PERFECT TENSE:
Em elaboração
CONDITIONA-PERFECT:
em elaboração
Action can happen at various times:
It can occur in the present time
It can be described as having taken place in the past
It can be described as being expecteded to occur in the future
Thus we have three principal tenses (or times) of English verbs:
Present Tense: He is a young man
Past Tense: He was a boy
Future Tense: He will be an old man
More subtle variations of time are indicated by others tenses:
CONDITIONAL TENSE:
"He would be happy".
As the name implies, such a tense is used to show a condition dependent on another idea.
"He would be happy if he had more money"
"He would be sad if he had less money"
PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE:
"He has been ill"
This tense indicates action that started in the past and continued into, or nearly into, the present
The inplication of the illustration used is that he has just recently recovered, or is perhaps even now in the process of recovering. In the sentence, "He has worked hard all his life" The present perfect tense implies either that he is still working hard or just recently stopped.
PAST-PERFECT TENSE:
"He had always believed in Santa Clauss until his friendes disabused him of that juvenile notion". This tense indicates action that started at some time in the past remoter than some other past time mentioned. This sounds more complicated than it is. In the illustration used, we have two verbs: had believed, a past-perfect tense; and disabused, a past tense. The action of believing in /santa Clauss occured prior to the action of being disabused. "He had failed to make many friends until he read Dale Carnegie´s book". Both verbs (had failed and read) show action in the past time, but which happened first, the failure or the reading?
FUTURE-PERFECT TENSE:
Em elaboração
CONDITIONA-PERFECT:
em elaboração
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