Far far away, there is a village called Grammarland. There lives 8 Parts of Speech. They are Verb, Noun, Preposition, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, Pronoun and Interjection. The world they live in is a make-believe (imaginary) one. Since each of them has special feature, they cannot make happen their imagination unless they are perfectly in harmony. Each of them is equally important in the village, it is difficult to get them listen to one and other except to the Father of Grammar. Everyone calls Father of Grammar “Gramma”. Whenever there is a dispute, Gramma will be the judge of the argument.
Let me tell you about them one by one.
Let’s start with Verb.
Verb is called “V”. Every member of Tribe V was born with moods. No matter what they do, they will carry their moods with them. This is one of the ways to distinguish among themselves. There are 4 moods-indicative, imperative, interrogative and subjunctive.
Most of the time, they are quite friendly, being indicative where they mean to show you something e.g. they eat an apple. In this case, they want to show you they eat something. As things happen in different times, present (I eat), past (I ate) and future (I will eat), the face of the word will change accordingly. Sometimes, they become imperative. They start to order people around. For example, “Eat the apple”. Then, you should follow the order. You will never change the face of the word. There are times they have doubts. They will be interrogative. To clear their doubts, they ask question. For instance, “Do you eat chili pepper?” Often, there is a helping verb. It can be ‘to do’ (do you like robot?), ‘to have’ (have you got any robot?) or ‘to be’ (are you a robot?). It changes depending on the type of question you ask. Still, they have a wishing mood. They turn into subjunctive when they wish of something. “I wish he eat some vegetables tonight.” When it is wishing, the verb should remain as it is.
Even though they are moody, you can get along with them if you understand their mood. However knowing their mood is not enough. Also, they have a shy character. Mostly, they remain active, carrying out duties by themselves. (The cat chases the mouse.) At times, they become shy, refusing to do anything but to retreat behind the helping verb. That is the time they show passive character. (The mouse is chased by the cat.) The shy trait has done no harm in fact.
At last, we have to know there are 3 aspects of verb--simple, progressive and perfective. The aspect is to show how much the action is done.
When the verb is about habit or truth, which means the action is always true, like when it happens every day or regularly, we will use simple aspect. (I run fast.) Nothing is added to the verb. When the verb is in ongoing manner, like happening now, we will use progressive aspect. (I am running.) ‘-ing’ form and a helping verb ‘to be’ are needed to show its continuous movement. Or if the verb is complete, where the action is finished, we use perfective aspect. (I have run for 2 hours.) ‘-en’ or ‘ed’ or irregular verbs and a helping verb ‘to have’ are required to show the complete task. These are the forms of the verb.