What is meant by verb “to be”?
English exams have crammed-in fill-in-the-blank questions. Where can I put them? Of these blanks, these forms of the verb “elest”. They need to be filled with the forms of the verb “to be or to be”. What does to be mean? Does it mean only the word – “to be”? How come is/are/was to come into the picture when you say “to be” in a sentence like this? What comes to your mind when you say “To be” form?
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In Hindi, the ‘to be’ verb means “” So that, ‘is/are/was/were’ comes into the picture.
A boy is moving toward a school bus – incorrect
Boys ” ” is correct but then ‘to be’ verb should be ‘are’.
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a sentence like, ‘The boys are moving’?
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The verb “to be” has a complex history.
What were the different verbs in Old English? To be “on” meaning to exist 1. “eom” meaning to remain, (mostly used in the present tense) and 3. “wesan” (which tended to be used in the past tense) and meant dwell 4. “earun” is a term from Northern Ireland. It means something, but also has the prefix “es-” in the latin word. It gives the result a whole line of words.
Which four expressions have become mixed and tangled into what we now think of as being a single irregular verb with the following forms:
infinitive to be present participle being past participle been present past first person present I am I was second person present you are you were third person present it is it was plural we/you/they are we/you/they were
It’s a mess: five different words mixed into one. Is that possible in a sentence? When asked to pick a form for “to be”, it is asking for one of these.
To be is the infinitive form of this verb. All other forms you mentioned are just grammatical forms of this verb. As examples am/is/are are the present forms. I cannot say ‘I am’ because I am…! You ask about the meaning, there are many meaning because this verb can be the auxiliary, the part of phrases etc. It is very wide-spread word, therefore, it looks for you that it can be extremely often appear in some exam
tasks.
