How to find the initial form of the verb
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Often guys make mistakes in writing unstressed personal endings of verbs. The reason for these errors is sometimes because the children have not learned how to find the initial form of the verb. See how this can be done.
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Even in elementary school, children get acquainted with such a part of speech as a verb, and throughout the course of the school they will study it more deeply. But they begin acquaintance with the verb from the initial form (or, as it is also called, from the infinitive).
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The initial form of the verb is determined by the questions "what to do?", "What to do?". This is an unchangeable form (neither time, nor number, nor person can be determined). For example, write (what to do?). If children ask questions, when does the action take place? who does it? They will not be able to answer, since this cannot be determined by the initial form of the verb.
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The infinitive can be determined by the endings -ty, -ty, as well as by the suffixes -a-, -i-, -ova-, -eva, -–. For example, in the initial form of the verb "read", the ending -t and the suffix -a. Although it is only by finding these suffixes that it is impossible to conclude that we have the initial form of the verb, since they can also be stored in the past tense. Suffix is one of the components of revealing the initial form of a verb.
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The initial form of a verb in a sentence can be both subject and predicate. For example: To live is to serve the homeland.
In this sentence, the word “live” (infinitive) is subject, and the word “serve” (also infinitive) is predicate.
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From the initial form, you can determine the time, person and number, but you can determine the type of verb (perfect or imperfect). For example: to wash (what to do?) - a perfect look, to wash (what to do?) - an imperfect look. And also you can determine the return of the verb. For example: wash - an irrevocable verb, wash - returnable (yes).
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So, by asking a question to a verb, determining some of its grammatical meanings, as well as its syntactic role, paying attention to the parts of the word (ending and suffix), you can easily understand that you are dealing with the initial form of the verb.