Verbs

Intro

• Not just actions: seems, contain, have, justify, languish. These refer to being in a certain states

• Nearly all verbs have basic form, in CGEL it’s called plain form

Tense

• Employed to show how an event or state is located in time

• Present: current moment, or timeless

People always say that

• Past: to locate events or states in the past, or an unreal hypothetical world, and sometimes politely

If I investigated further, would I find out anything bad? I wondered if I could possibly borrow your book