Difference between revisions of "Be"
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<li>past tense: <span style="color:#4D0000;">was</span> (1s, 3s), <span style="color:#4D0000;">were</span> (1p, 2s/p, 3p)</li> | <li>past tense: <span style="color:#4D0000;">was</span> (1s, 3s), <span style="color:#4D0000;">were</span> (1p, 2s/p, 3p)</li> | ||
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| − | <li>present participle: being</li> | + | <li>present participle: <span style="color:#4D0000;">being</span></li> |
| − | <li>past participle: been</li> | + | <li>past participle: <span style="color:#4D0000;">been</span></li> |
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Revision as of 02:19, 31 January 2013
Avertissement: cette page est destiné à un analyse grammatical du mot "be" :P
Contents
[hide]Forms
- dictionary form (bare infinitive): be
- present tense: are (1p, 2s/p, 3p), is (3s), am (1s)
- past tense: was (1s, 3s), were (1p, 2s/p, 3p)
- present participle: being
- past participle: been
Major Uses
Most fundamentally be is a coupler. It connects two ideas. Let's start with this basic understanding and look at what it couples:
copula: syntax
En semantique on parlerait plutôt de l'attribution on parlerait de sa fonction, qui est souvent de lié un sujet à un attribut, un ensemble (ou l'invers)...
- It's a worktool. (NP)
- A worktool, is it?
- The door is open. (Adj)
- They're sick.
- The machine is breaking. (You can hear it.) (Present Participle)
- The machine is broken. (Past participle)
- Is Raymond in? (Particle)
- Mark isn't. (negation) (VP ellipsis)
- These ideas aren't mine. (sujet parlant est bizarrement attribut du sujet grammatical)
- Were they to lose the lawsuit, they would probably go bankrupt. (Infintival expressing a condition)
- They were to lose in the end. (infinitival expressing a historical fact known to the storyteller)
introduces partiples and participials
passive voice marker (be +en)
- Lincoln and Kennedy were both assassinated.
- Everything was frozen.
- It was golden. (ADJ, (predicate adjective))
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