Glossary: verb form
Explanation
The forms a verb can take. For example, for be we have am, are, is, was, being, been; for walk we have walks, walked, walking, and for see we have sees, saw, seeing, and seen.
The National Curriculum also uses this term to include tense and aspect. In this sense there are six different ‘tense’ forms of a verb: the simple present tense and past tense forms, plus the present and past forms of the progressive and perfect.
- He lives in Birmingham. [simple present]
- He lived in Birmingham. [simple past]
- He is living in Birmingham. [present progressive]
- He was living in Birmingham. [past progressive]
- He has lived in Birmingham. [present perfect]
- He had lived in Birmingham. [past perfect]
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