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Total Verb Review2013

All About Verbs

Each verb has 4 principal parts

First Person Singular

Present Active“I carry”

Present Active Infinitive“to carry”

porto portare portavi portatus

First PersonSingular

Perfect Active“I carried”

Perfect PassiveParticiple

“having been carried”or “carried”

What Tenses Do We Make From Which Parts???

First Person Singular

Present Active“I carry”

Present Active Infinitive“to carry”

porto portare portavi portatus

First PersonSingular

Perfect Active“I carried”

Perfect PassiveParticiple

“having been carried”or “carried”

Present Stem

2nd Part (infinitive) minus -re

portare

porta-

• The present stem is a hard worker! It creates all the following forms:

• Present active• Present passive• Imperfect active• Imperfect passive• Future active• Future passive

• Imperative (singular/plural)

Perfect Stem

3rd Part minus -i

portavi

portav-

The perfect stem creates these 3 forms:

Perfect activePluperfect activeFuture perfect active

Perfect Passive Participle

The 4th principal part.

portatus (-a, -um)

The participle takes care of the last 3 tense charts. Remember that it will be used in tandem with a form of “sum” as a helping verb:

Perfect PassivePluperfect PassiveFuture Perfect Passive

Charts and Stems SummaryACTIVE VOICE

• Present PRESENT STEM• Imperfect PRESENT STEM• Future PRESENT STEM

• Perfect PERFECT STEM• Pluperfect PERFECT STEM• Future Perfect PERFECT

STEM

PASSIVE VOICE Present PRESENT STEM Imperfect PRESENT STEM Future PRESENT STEM

Perfect PARTICIPLE + ? Pluperfect PARTICIPLE + ? Future PerfectPARTICIPLE + ?

Total Verb Summary!

Present Tense (present stem)

ACTIVE

• I verb, I am verbing, I do verb

• -O -MUS• -S -TIS• -T -NT

PASSIVE

• I am verbed, I am being verbed

• -R -MUR• -RIS -MINI• -TUR -NTUR

Imperfect Tense (present stem)

ACTIVE

• I was verbing, I used to verb, I kept on verbing

• -BAM -BAMUS• -BAS -BATIS• -BAT -BANT

PASSIVE

• I was (being) verbed

• -BAR -BAMUR• -BARIS -BAMINI• -BATUR -BANTUR

Future Tense: 1st/2nd Conjugation (present stem)

ACTIVE

• I will (shall) verb• -BO -BIMUS• -BIS -BITIS• -BIT -BUNT

PASSIVE

• I will (shall) be verbed• -BOR -BIMUR• -BERIS -BIMINI• -BITUR -BUNTUR

Future Tense: 3rd/4th Conjugation (present stem)

ACTIVE

• I will (shall) verb• -AM-EMUS• -ES -ETIS• -ET -ENT

PASSIVE

• I will (shall) be verbed• -AR -EMUR• -ERIS -EMINI• -ETUR -ENTUR

Perfect Tense (perfect stem-active

perfect passive participle-passive)ACTIVE

• I verbed, have verbed

• -I -IMUS• -ISTI -ISTIS• -IT -ERUNT

PASSIVE• I have been verbed, was

verbed

• PPP SUM PPP SUMUS• PPP ES PPP ESTIS• PPP EST PPP SUNT

Pluperfect Tense (perfect stem-active

perfect passive participle-passive)ACTIVE

• I had verbed• -ERAM -

ERAMUS• -ERAS -ERATIS• -ERAT -ERANT

PASSIVE

• I had been verbed• PPP ERAM PPP

ERAMUS• PPP ERAS PPP ERATIS• PPP ERAT PPP ERANT

Future Perfect Tense (perfect stem-active

perfect passive participle-passive)ACTIVE

• I will have verbed• -ERO -ERIMUS• -ERIS -ERITIS• -ERIT -ERINT

PASSIVE

• I will have been verbed• PPP ERO PPP ERIMUS• PPP ERIS PPP ERITIS• PPP ERIT PPP ERUNT

ImperativesPresent Stem

• Present stem: singular VERB!

• Present stem + -te: plural (Y’ALL) VERB!