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The infinitive in English is the form that we use to refer to a verb generally. It is the form that we use to name a verb or in making a list…

“WH-word” is a term used in linguistics and education to make it simple to refer to any of the question words that begin with the letters “wh” as well as the question…

The word “tense” refers to time.  It refers to how verbs show time by their form. The words “slept” and “sleeps” are really the same word, but they differ with respect to tense. In English, there are really only…

The term “subjunctive” refers to one of the grammatical “moods” that color the verb in a sentence.  Verbs in the subjunctive mood indicate that the action or state described by the verb is hypothetical…

In English, the shortest “full sentence” we can make is made up of 1) a subject and 2) a verb that shows past or non-past time (or a modal auxiliary verb, such…