Verbs: Tense, Mood, and Voice - High School

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  1. active
    of verbs expressing behavior rather than a state of being
  2. active voice
    when the subject of a sentence performs the action
  3. future perfect tense
    a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
  4. future progressive tense
    a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future
  5. future tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
  6. gerund
    a noun formed from a verb
  7. historical present
    the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
  8. imperative
    relating to verbs that express a command
  9. indicative
    of a verb mood that is used in simple declarative statements
  10. infinitive
    the uninflected form of the verb
  11. linking verb
    an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
  12. mood
    verb inflections that express how the action is conceived
  13. participle
    a form of the verb used as an adjective
  14. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  15. past perfect tense
    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
  16. past progressive tense
    a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past
  17. past tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
  18. pluperfect
    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
  19. present perfect tense
    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
  20. present progressive tense
    a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
  21. present tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking
  22. progressive tense
    a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
  23. subjunctive
    a mood that represents an act as contingent or hypothetical
  24. tense
    a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  25. verb
    a word denoting an action, occurrence, or state of existence
  26. voice
    grammatical relation of the subject of a verb to the action
Created on Thu Jan 12 16:49:28 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:46:59 EDT 2017)

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