Language Decoded – Verbs: Moods, Voices, Tenses & Aspects

Verbs are the central element of a sentence. Most communicative elements are sentences. Except while identifying things or calling out to people, all other communication is done with sentences or simply verbs.

A verb is like a pivot of a sentence, as is evident from previous articles on Nouns and Cases.  A verb will determine what is the central action and thereby the central theme of the sentence, it establishes the relationship of all nouns in the sentence, and it also conveys the time zone (past, present, or future) and “mood” or “mode” of a sentence.

(“Mood” here is a technical term – not referring to an emotional state but a manner in which a sentence expresses reality, imagination or instruction.)

The next few paragraphs will decipher the meanings of these technical terms.


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