Do you want me to teach you how to quickly determine what form a verb is in? It's easy, you just need to know a certain algorithm.
Walk, lay down, lie down… Go, bed, lie down (or would lie down)… How do these verbs differ, because at first glance they are so similar?
Their difference is in the inclination. The first three verbs have no tense, no person, no other features. They simply denote, as befits verbs, an action. This is the indefinite form of the verb. It is also called the initial (which is not entirely correct) or the infinitive. Who performed the action, at what time, this non-conjugated form of the verb does not indicate.
Verbs in this form have the following features:
View. The question "what to do?" (run, paint, draw) indicates that the action is not finished, not completed to the end. This type of verb is called imperfect
The question "what to do?" (run away,paint, draw) indicates that the action has a limit, it has already happened, ended, so these verbs are perfective.
The indefinite form of the verb does not interfere with determining the transitivity of verbs. If the action in this context goes to the subject (paint the table, draw a little man, see a friend), if the verb without a preposition is combined with the accusative case, then they will be considered transitive
If the action cannot be transferred to an object (for example, you cannot say "get off a person"), then the verb will be intransitive.
Sometimes the same verb can be transitive in one text (We're tired of painting the wall) and intransitive in another (We're tired of painting all day).
- The indefinite form of the verb is not alien to reflexivity. What to do? Take care and take care, turn and turn. However, not all verbs can be reflexive: be able, lie down, walk.
- Since the indefinite form of the verb does not conjugate, in order to understand when, by whom the action was performed, whether it actually took place, or was performed only in dreams, one should determine the mood of the verb. There are only three of them.
- The imperative form of the verb denotes an order, an inducement to some action, a request. The verbs “paint”, “sing”, “bring”, “give back” are in the imperative mood.
- The conditional mood "lives in dreams". It is formed according to the formula "the base of the infinitive + the suffix L + the particle would (b)). I would go to the cinema if it weren't for laziness. I wouldn't sleepI wouldn't eat and work all day. I could. It's just a pity: it's all too lazy to do. These verbs can be in any number, and in the singular they still change by gender. They denote an action that is possible under certain conditions.
- If the verb does not have a particle would, if it does not contain an order,
means it is in the indicative mood. Draw, draw, draw, draw, draw, draw, will draw - these are examples of such an inclination. It is in the indicative mood that we use verbs most often. Why? Yes, because the actions that have already been, that are happening at the moment or will happen someday, denote exactly the verbs in this mood.
It is in this mood that verbs can change by tense (walk, walk, walk), by person (walk - walk, walk - walk, walk - walk), numbers.
