Verbs: Mood, Modality, Tense, Aspect, Number, Person and Voice

Have you ever heard someone say that a verb was in the past tense? How about that it’s in the first person? Or maybe that something is in the passive voice? Or perhaps that a verb should agree in number with its subject. It seems there’s no limit to the number of categories we can apply to verbs. But in fact, you can narrow them down to these seven.

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