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Verbals

(Non-Finite Forms of the English Verbs)

 

1.      The verb has finite and non-finite forms, which are also called verbals. There are three verbals in English: the infinitve, the gerund and the participle.

         The verbals have the following characteristics:

a)     The verbals, unlike the finite forms, do not express person, number or mood; they cannot be used as the predicate of a sentence.

b)    They have a double nature, nominal and verbal: they combine some characteristics of the verb with those of the adjective, the adverb or the noun.

c)     Like the finite forms of the verb, the verbals have the tense and voice distinctions. Their tense distinctions are relative: their form does not refer the action to the present, past or future, it shows only whether the action expressed by the verbal is simultaneous with that expressed by the finite verb or prior to it.

d)    All the verbals can form predicative constructions, which consist of two elements: a noun / pronoun + verbal; the verbal element stands in predicate relations to the nominal element, i.e. in a relation similar to that between the predicate and the subject of a sentence.

e)     In a sentence a verbal can occur:

-   singly, i.e. without accompanying words.

              She went away smiling.

.-         in phrases, with one or more accompanying words.

Lucy came in smiling happily.

-         in predicative  constructions.

Is it usual for foxes to come so close to the town?


 


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