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VERB
CONJUGATION |
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Indicative Mood
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Compound
Tenses |
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Progressive
Tenses |
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Perfect Tenses |
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Perfect Progressive Tenses |
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An
English Verb Conjugated in the Present Tense
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| I
work |
we
work |
| you
work |
y'all
work |
| he,
she, it works |
they
work |
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| Normally,
people communicate with each other in sentences. |
Although
many of us in today's world seem to be more inclined
to communicating through monosyllabic utterances
and grunts - we DO need to start shaping what we
want to say into Spanish ... |
| You're
going to get started now dealing with verbs, actions,
goings-on, etc. in Spanish, in order to form complete
sentences! |
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dealing with verbs to make sentences, the verb itself
has to be changed according to: |
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WHO
is doing the action. |
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at how the verb form changes in English, depending
on the subject: |
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subject |
verb
form |
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infinitive |
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I
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am
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comes
from |
(
to be ) |
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she
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is
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comes
from |
(
to be ) |
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we
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are
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comes
from |
(
to be ) |
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they
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sleep
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comes
from |
(
to sleep ) |
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he
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sleeps
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comes
from |
(
to sleep ) |
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"change of forms" according to subject is called conjugation.
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[Am,
Is, Are] are changed forms of TO BE.
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Present
tense implies that the action is going on now,
or that the action is a current
process - whether it's just for today,
or it's been going on for a lengthy period of time. |
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present tense in English is shown in various forms. |
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Notice
that each of the following sentences can mean the
same thing: |
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I
work. |
I'm
working. |
I
do work. |
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I
work? |
Am
I working? |
Do
I work? |
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of these stem from the English infinitive "to work." |
These
are the choices we have in English for expressing
a verb in the present time, or as a current activity. |
| Spanish
simplifies the present tense into a single form. |
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Trabajo.
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| I
work. |
| I
do work. |
| *I'm
working. |
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¿Trabajo?
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| I
work? |
| Do
I work? |
| *Am
I working? |
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This form can be precisely stated: See "present
progressive." |
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In the English sentences you have to use the
subject pronoun "I" to tell who is doing
the action. Not so in Spanish! In Spanish the
verb used is trabajar
- and you've dropped the final 2 letters of the
infinitive (-ar)
to add the -o ending,
... which can only be construed as the "yo"
form. So no subject pronoun is necessary --- it's
included in the verb! Yep !!! The tail end of
the verb tells us "who is doing the action."
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Present
tense forms most often indicate that the
action is an ongoing thing, without pointing
out the beginning or the end. |
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are instances when the present forms are
translated into past forms in English. See
HACE & DESDE plus present. |
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