Verbs: Tense, Mood, and Voice - Middle 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 tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
  5. gerund
    a noun formed from a verb
  6. imperative
    relating to verbs that express a command
  7. indicative
    of a verb mood that is used in simple declarative statements
  8. infinitive
    the uninflected form of the verb
  9. linking verb
    an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
  10. mood
    verb inflections that express how the action is conceived
  11. participle
    a form of the verb used as an adjective
  12. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  13. past perfect tense
    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
  14. past tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
  15. present tense
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking
  16. progressive tense
    a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
  17. subjunctive
    a mood that represents an act as contingent or hypothetical
  18. tense
    a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  19. verb
    a word denoting an action, occurrence, or state of existence
  20. voice
    grammatical relation of the subject of a verb to the action
Created on Wed Jan 18 11:01:54 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:46:45 EDT 2017)

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