Last week, I talked about verbs which masquerade as other parts of speech. For the sake of being thorough and keeping things together for our new readers, I’m bringing Perry Participle back for another round. If you read this last year, you’re free to decide whether the refresher will benefit you or no. Cute, fuzzy […]
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Perfect Progressive Verbs
I hear Mike Myers–er, Linda Richman–in my head, hosting Coffee Talk, with the thick NY accent. “Perfect Progressive verb forms are neither perfect nor progressive. Discuss.” We’ll hit this one fast and hard, because honestly? There are only a few legitimate reasons to use the perfect progressive verb form. And there’s probably a better, simpler […]
Get Your Grammar Fix(ed): Perfect Verb Forms
We’re talking about perfect verb forms today. We’ve covered the satellite view of all the forms and tenses. We’ve talked about simple forms. We’ve seen progressive verb forms in action. And now, without further ado:Perfect.There were three of them in the paragraph above. Did you catch them?Truly short and sweet. These verb forms indicate that an […]
Get Your Grammar Fix(ed): Progressive Verbs
We’ve done the bird’s-eye view of verb tenses and forms.We’ve homed in on the simple forms of past, present, and future. And we’ve talked about why those are usually best for writing.Today, we zoom in to inspect the progressive forms. These bebes are easy to spot, because they all end in -ING. I will be […]
Verbs: Keeping It Simple
Happy National Grammar Day, peoples. Let’s get our Grammar Fix(ed)!If you missed the bird’s-eye view of verbs, check it out here. Today, we’re going to home in on the simple forms of a verb. The simple form indicates that an action occurs and usually implies that it wasn’t repeated. I choked on frozen Reese’s pieces […]
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