Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
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The verb has four forms:1.The infinitive 2. The past Indefinite 3.The Past Participle 4. the Present Participle.
Let's take the verb "go"
1.to go 2. went 3. gone 4. going
1. The first form helps to form The Present Simple and The Future Simple Tenses. e.g. I go to work every morning. I will go to work soon.
2. The secong form helps to form only The Past Simple Tense. e.g. I went to work last work.
3. The third form helps to form perfect tenses and the passive voice. e.g. He has just gone to work. They had gone to work when I phoned them.
4. The fourth form helps to form continuous tenses. e.g. I'm going to work now. You were going to work when I saw you. I will be going to work at 9 oc'lock a.m. tomorrow.
I think you know English better now. Cheers!
Participles come in two varieties: past and present.
For details of the uses of particular verb tenses and other forms, see the article Uses of English verb forms. For certain other specific topics, see the articles listed in the box to the right.
Uses of the bare infinitive
Uses of the bare infinitive
The infinitive without the marker to (bare-infinitive) is used after the auxiliaries: shall, should, will, would, may, might, do, did, can, could, must, need and dare.
- I shall invite them.
- We must go now.
- He can speak English.
- You need not go.
- He dare not refuse.
- Don't you dare leave me here.
When dare and need are used as principal verbs, they are followed by the to-infinitive.
- Did he dare to do that?
- Don't dare to say it was her fault to pretend to be someone she wasn't.
- We will need two weeks to complete the work.
- I bade him come. (NOT I bade him to come.)
- Let him go. (NOT Let him to go.)
- We heard her sing. (NOT We heard her to sing.)
- I watched them play. (NOT I watched them to play.)
The infinitive is used without to after rather, better and had better.
- You had rather visit him.
- I would rather wait.
- You had better consult a doctor.
they are both the same in meaning – when you prefer to have or do one thing more than another. Although, ‘had rather’ is more archaic and not as commonly used as ‘would rather’. Generally, this is used as a contraction (I’d rather) so it isn’t always clear which one is being used..but thankfully, they have the same meaning!
- “Would you like to go to Sarah’s house for dinner tonight?”
- “I’d rather stay at home” (I would rather stay at home / I had rather stay at home)
Verb + (object) + bare infinitive
Some verbs are followed by a bare infinitive after an object:
She noticed him run away from the house. (not... noticed him to run...)
I made Peter wait outside. (not...made Peter to wait...)
Other verbs like this include feel, hear, observe, overhear, see, watch; have, let. Notice, however, that in pasive sentences with these verbs, we use a to-infinitive:
He was overheard to say that he hoped John would resign.
After some of verbs (feel, hear, notice, observe, see, watch) we can use either the bare infinitive or the -ing form, but usually there is a difference in meaing.
A few verbs can be followed directly by a bare infinitive in fairly idiomatic phrases, including: hear, tell, make believe, and let (it) slip:
Notice also the phrases make do and let go:
After some prepositions like except, but, save and than
- Jim borrowed my new bike; I had to make do with my old one. (= it wasn't the one I wanted)
- He made believe that he had caught the huge fish himself. (= pretended)
- She let (it) slip that she's leaving. (= said it unintentionally)
- She can do everything but cook.
- She did nothing except cry.
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