Uses of English verb forms

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Modern standard English has various verb forms, including:

• Finite verb forms such as go, goes and went
• Nonfinite forms such as (to) go, going and gone
• Combinations of such forms with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone

They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various configurations.

For details of how inflected forms of verbs are produced in English, see English verbs. For the grammatical structure of clauses, including word order, see English clause syntax. For non-standard or archaic forms, see individual dialect articles and thou.