Modal Verb(s) Common Uses. Example Sentence. Ability. Can, Could, Be able to. Present/general ability, past ability, future ability. I can speak Spanish. I could swim when I was four.

A verb is a word used to describe an action, state or occurrence. Verbs can be used to describe an action, that’s doing something. For example, like the word ‘jumping’ in this sentence: ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...

A literacy lesson plan from a group partly funded by the Government of Canada uses a partisan example to teach people how to conjugate the verb "to vote." The lesson plan, written by Saskatchewan ...

One reference book says the use of a plural verb is 10 times more common in print. But stylebooks followed by journalists say "whereabouts" takes a singular verb. Example: ...