TENSE: CHAPTER 1(B) VERB PERSON CASES
Before proceeding ahead , we must understand the another basic important Key points without which the lesson of Tense is absolutely incomplete.
1. Verb
2. Person
3. Cases
I. VERB
As in the earlier chapter we studied about the placement of a verb
in a sentence, So it’s important to understand its forms also which are the root
reason to understand. Because
Basically there are three forms of the verb:
1. Present (Base Form
2. Past
3. Past Participle
But with view of understanding Tenses in a better way,
Grammarians have divided them in five parts:
4. Present Participle (V+ing)
5. Third person singular form of the verb- Verb +s/ es / ies
II. CASES
There are total 4 kinds of cases:-
- Nominative subjective
- Possessive
- Objective
- Reflexive
A ‘ person ‘ also plays an important roll in the
formation of a sentence as it is the person in the form of subject – that decides the correct use of verb.
Total number of persons are three. Here is the list:-
Person and Cases
