{"id":1641,"date":"2016-11-01T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T12:50:20","slug":"finite-and-non-finite-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/finite-and-non-finite-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finite and non-finite verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These lessons are based on<strong> Macmillan English Ferry Class 8 Textbook and Workbook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong>Finite verbs<\/strong> are verbs that have different forms in different tenses. Finite verbs change their form when there is a change in the number or person of the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Examples are: <em>come, work, is, am, break, stop etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Study the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My brother serves in the army. (Serve is a finite verb because it becomes serves when the subject is a singular noun.)<\/li>\n<li>My brother served in the army. (The finite verb serve becomes served in the simple past tense.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Non-finites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three types of non-finites: gerunds, infinitives and participles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerunds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gerunds end in \u2013ing. Examples are: <em>singing, dancing, running, working, looking etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Infinitives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Infinitives are the first form of the verb. They are usually used with the marker \u2018to\u2019. Examples are: <em>to sing, to dance, to run, to work, to look etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two types of participles \u2013 present participles and past participles<\/p>\n<p>Present participles also end in \u2013ing. Examples are: reading, writing, teaching, listening, singing etc.<\/p>\n<p>Past participles usually end in \u2013ed, or \u2013en. Note that there are several exemptions to this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: <em>stopped, looked, worked, earned, played, broken, written etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, both present participles and gerunds end in \u2013ing. However, there is an important difference between them.<br \/>\nGerunds serve the same purpose as nouns. They can be used as the subject or object of the verb. They can also be used as the object of the preposition.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Singing is his passion. (Here the gerund singing acts as the subject of the verb is.)<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy reading. (Here the gerund reading acts as the object of the verb enjoy.)<\/li>\n<li>I am interested in cooking. (Here the gerund cooking acts as the object of the preposition in.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Present participles<\/strong> are mainly used as adjectives. They are also used to form continuous tenses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barking dogs seldom bite. (Here the present participle barking acts as an adjective modifying the noun dogs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These lessons are based on Macmillan English Ferry Class 8 Textbook and Workbook. Finite verbs are verbs that have different forms in different tenses. Finite verbs change their form when there is a change&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-non-finite-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}