How to conjugate a verb Cach chia mot dong tu

How to Conjugate a Verb in
English
(A Finite Verb)
Mr. Anh


1. Present simple
He eats a cake.
2. Past simple
He ate a cake.
3. Future simple
He will eat a cake.
4. Present continuous
He is eating a cake.
5. Past continuous
He was eating a cake.


6. Future continuous
He will be eating a cake.
7. Present perfect
He has eaten a cake.
8. Past perfect
He had eaten a cake.
9. Future perfect
He will have eaten a cake.
10. Present perfect continuous
He has been eating a cake.


11. Past perfect continuous

He had been eating a cake.
12. Future perfect continuous
He will have been eating a cake.
13. Near future
He is going to eat a cake.
He is to eat a cake.
He is about to eat a cake.
He is due to eat a cake.
He is on the point of eating a cake.


14. Near future in the past
He was going to eat a cake.
He was to eat a cake.
He was about to eat a cake.
He was due to eat a cake.
15. Future in the past
He said that he would eat a cake.
16. Present subjunctive
He eat a cake.


17. Past subjunctive (similar to past simple)
He ate a cake.
18. Past perfect subjunctive (similar to past
perfect)
He had eaten a cake.
19. Modal perfect with WOULD
He would have eaten a cake.
20. Modal perfect with SHOULD

He should have eaten a cake.
21. Modal perfect with MUST
He must have eaten a cake.


22. Modal perfect with MAY
He may have eaten a cake.
23. Modal perfect with MIGHT
He might have eaten a cake.
24. Modal perfect with CAN’T
He can’t have eaten a cake.
25. Modal perfect with MUSTN’T
He mustn’t have eaten a cake.
26. Modal perfect continuous with WOULD
He would have been eating a cake.


27. Modal perfect continuous with MAY
He may have been eating a cake.
28. Modal perfect continuous with MUST
He must have been eating a cake.
29. Modal perfect continuous with SHOULD
He should have been eating a cake.
30. Modal perfect continuous with MIGHT
He might have been eating a cake.
31. Modal perfect continuous with CAN’T
He can’t have been eating a cake.


32. Modal perfect continuous with MUSTN’T

He mustn’t have been eating a cake.
33. Future continuous in the past
He would be eating a cake.
34. Future perfect in the past (similar to modal perfect)
He would have eaten a cake.
35. Future perfect continuous in the past (similar to
modal perfect continuous)
He would have been eating a cake.
36. Similar to modal perfect with SHOULD
He ought to have eaten a cake.
He was supposed to eat a cake.


37. Modal perfect with NEEDN’T
He needn’t have eaten a cake.
38. Modal perfect with WOULD LIKE TO
He would like to have eaten a cake.
39. Modal perfect with WOULD HAVE LIKED TO
He would have liked to eat a cake.
40. Present emphatic form
He does eat a cake.
41. Past emphatic form
He did eat a cake.


42. CAN and BE ABLE TO
He could carry a one-hundred-kilo sack.
He was be able carry a one-hundred-kilo sack.
43. WOULD and USED TO
He would eat a cake.

He used to be late.
44. WOULD RATHER and LIKE
He likes a cake.
He would rather eat a cake.
45. HAD BETTER and LIKE
He had better eat a cake.


46. A finite verb in a passive sentence
A cake is eaten by him.
A cake has been eaten by him.
A cake can be eaten by him.
A cake will have been eaten by him.


When we use finite verbs, we should bear
these ways to conjugate verbs in our minds!


Good luck!