Thus, the main tense and mood distinctions in classical Latin are still made in most modern Romance languages, though some are now expressed through compound rather than simple verbs.
12.
Occasionally older speakers use-ing constructions where Standard English would use a simple verb form, example " I'm seeing you ! " meaning " I can see you ! ".
13.
Languages with a scarcity of simple verbs tend to be rigidly head-final, as in the case of Japanese, whereas verb-rich languages tend to be head-initial languages.
14.
The relationship between prototonic and deuterotonic compound verb forms is thus analogous to that between simple verb forms with conjunct and absolute endings : the one group is used after a conjunct particle like, the other group without such a particle.
15.
The simple verb " to brood " in English doesn't take an object when used regarding humans : in that case it means " worry " . " John broods " means he spends ( to much ) time worrying.
16.
:: : In other words, this usage forms its tenses the same way that the simple verb " go " does . " Went missing ", " has gone missing ", and " had gone missing " are ecah the correct form in the appropriate circumstances.
17.
When it was released most adventure games used simple verb-noun parsers ( allowing for simple phrases like'get lamp'), but Inglish allowed one to type advanced sentences such as " ask Gandalf about the curious map then take sword and kill troll with it ".
18.
Yet because of one low score on a reading test when he was 9, the polite, wiry child spent his entire middle-school experience in the same bilingual class, treading through the same textbooks, conjugating the same simple verbs dictated by a teacher who spoke only garbled Spanglish.
19.
For example, the suffixes "-lawu " and "-ta " are both used to make a simple verb into a durative one ( implying the action is ongoing and not yet complete ) but it is hard to predict which suffix applies to which verbs.
20.
In their study, one reads that both tense and aspect are impaired and, most importantly, that reference to the past is selectively impaired both through simple verb forms ( such as simple present in English ) and through periphrastic verb forms ( such as the present perfect in English ).
