Questions about modification of a verb from its basic form.
Conjugation is the modification of a verb from its basic form.
The conjugation of English verbs involves relatively few distinct inflected forms. For a regular verb such as walk, there are only four: walk, walks, walked, walking. Irregular verbs may have more or fewer forms.
Many English verb constructions are periphrastic and consist of an auxiliary verb followed by a non-finite form of the main verb (such as a participle or infinitive). Some examples of English periphrastic constructions are the progressive, formed with an inflected form of the auxiliary be followed by the ing-form (I am walking) and the perfect, formed with an inflected form of the auxiliary have follows by the past participle (I have walked).
Related tags and their uses
- if you have a question about which form to use with a certain kind of antecedent (i.e. issues of subject-verb agreement), use verb-agreement, possibly along with grammatical-number if appropriate
- if you have a question about the specific units of meaning (morphemes) used in verb conjugation, such as the form of certain affixes, use inflectional-morphology
- if you have a question about the spelling convention of doubling a final consonant letter in some verb forms, check if any of the previous questions about this topic answer your question and if not, ask a question with the tag double-consonant
