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Verb conjugations reflect three elements: the subject, the tense, and the mood. The subject may be singular or plural and may be in the first person ("I" or "we"), in the second person ("you"), or in the third person "he," she," "it," or "they"). Verb tenses include different forms of the past, present and future. The term "mood" refers, generally, to the attitude of the speaker toward his subject. The different moods include the indicative, the subjunctive (rare in English), the conditional, and the imperative.
- Auxiliaries ("to be", "to have")
- Past conditional ("I would have worked...")
- Present conditional ("I would work...")
- Future perfect ("We will have finished...")
- Near future ("We are going to finish...")
- Future progressive ("I will be calling you...")
- Simple future ("We will leave....")
- Imperative ("Let's go!")
- Irregular participles
- Past progressive ("I was working...")
- Habitual past ("I used to work...")
- Pluperfect ("I had worked...")
- Present perfect ("I have finished...")
- Present perfect progressive ("I have been finishing...")
- Present progressive (: "I am finishing...")
- Simple present (: "I finish...")
- Preterit ("I worked...")
- Subjunctive ("If I were you...")
- Modal verbs ("would", "should", etc.)
- Prepositional verbs ("to put down, to put up with..." etc.)
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