Is there a name for this kind of sequences of three terms like: /to see, saw, seen/ ?
I need to know how sequences of verbal voices like the followings are
called, if they have a name :
to read, read, read
to go, went, gone
to like, liked, liked
In Italian language we call each of them
'paradigma di un verbo inglese'
('paradigma' of an English verb).
Thank you
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Answers · 7
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Principle parts (of a verb)
Reference: http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/prinptsterm.htm
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It's called conjugation.
However, this term covers not only tense, but person (eg. am, is are...).
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To see : would be in the present tense
saw: is past tense
seen : would be use with indicative eg: perfect tense , past perfect etc ,eg what is happening, what happened, what will happen. Gives the facts.
And with the subjunctive past present and future eg, what would happen, what would have happened, what you wish would happen , what you wish would have happened--the "counterfactual" mood. Gives wishes and hypotheticals, not the facts.
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Are you talking about the future tense?
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conjugation?
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