| A | B |
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| tense | time of verb's action or existence; Latin has 6 tenses |
| present tense | happens now; use present stem; ex.: talks, is talking, and does talk |
| imperfect tense | started in the past but is still continuing to present; not yet perfect or completed; use present stem; ex.: was doing, were doing |
| future tense | happens after the present; use present stem; ex.: will talk, being about to talk |
| perfect tense | completed action/ state of being in the past; use perfect stem; ex.: I have walked, did walk , walked |
| pluperfect tense | completed in the past before another past action, more perfect; use perfect stem; ex.: I had walked |
| future perfect tense | an action or state of being completed in the future before another future action: he will have walked |
| mood | the way a verb is used in sentence: indicative, imperative, subjunctive |
| indicative mood | a verb used to express something as a fact: declarative or simple interrogative |
| imperative mood | a verb used expressing a direct command |
| subjunctive mood | a verb used expressing a wish, condition, or something contrary to real facts |
| voice | indicates whether the subject does or receives the action of the verb |
| active voice | the subject of the sentence performs the action |
| passive voice | the subject receives the action of the verb |
| number | indicates whether the subject is singular or plural |
| person | point of view of verb: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd |
| 1st person | subject of verb is I or we |
| 2nd person | subject of verb is you (sing.) and you (plural) |
| 3rd person | subject of verb is he, she, it, they or anything other than I, we, and you (sing and plural) |
| particple | verbal adjective that modifies a noun or pronoun, and it can have an object of the action it expressed: the running boy, the skiing girl, the fallen snow, the captured Romans |
| gerund | a verbal noun that always acts like a noun, but can have objects of the action expressed: Running is a sport, skiing is another sport. I learned by reading the book. Taking notes is important |
| infintive | another verbal noun, can have an object of its action, often completes the main verb;expressed as: to + verb, to run, to have run, to talk, to be about to talk |
