Rather, in the days before finite forms of " to do " became the preferred way to form questions and negative statements in English, it was used in certain non-modal constructions.
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As can be seen in the scheme above, the first person singular is basically the same as the stem, and the first-and third persons plural are the same as the non-finite form.
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Here the present perfect construction is applied to " to be ", and the continuity and the passive voice are applied to the main verb in non-finite form in a noun phrase.
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In Ancient Greek, the perfect tense ( ) is a set of forms that express both present tense and perfect aspect ( finite forms ), or simply perfect aspect ( non-finite forms ).
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In Ancient Greek, the perfect tense ( ) is a set of forms that express both present tense and perfect aspect ( finite forms ), or simply perfect aspect ( non-finite forms ).
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The word " S�ta " is the finite form of " s�te " ( meaning " haystack " ) since the shape of the mountain looks like the shape of a small cone-shaped haystack.
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Over the years, this usage fell out of favor, and using finite forms of " to do " as an auxilliary verb became the preferred way to form negative statements with action-verb clauses.
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Besides the finite forms, there are also infinitive, supine ( purposive ), numerous gerund forms, and a present and past participle, and these are all used with auxiliary verbs to produce further analytic constructions.
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Furthermore, the third person singular is realized as-when occurring before a fortis obstruent, and that in some southern varieties of Northern Bavarian the first person plural has the ending-, and therefore isn't the non-finite form.
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There is also another large group of verbs which again have only non-finite forms, in which the non-finite stem is unanalysable ( as a verb, at least ), thus there is no " e-/ i-/ j-" prefix.
