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[16th ed.] The Chicago Manual of Style Online Index V
): contractions with, 5.103 ; forms and tenses, 5.98 , 5.151–52 ; as linking verbs, 5.43 , 5.99 ; noun or pronoun...; principal and auxiliary (modal), 5.101 , 5.142 ; regular and irregular, 5.98 ; tenses, 5.122 ; transitive...and intransitive, 5.18 , 5.96 , 5.115 , 5.166 -ed vs. -t for past tense and past participle, 5.98...

[16th ed.] 5.215 Auxiliary verbs and parallel structure
breaks out the third element into a separate sentence — which also avoids shifting from future tense to past tense in midsentence....

[16th ed.] 5.142 Auxiliary verbs defined
helping verb) is a highly irregular verb that is used with other verbs to form voice, tense, and mood...

[16th ed.] 5.134 Conjugation defined
verb’s form to reflect voice, mood, tense, person, and number. A verb has seven conjugated parts: the...

[16th ed.] 5.135 Verb stem (present indicative)
stem for all persons, singular and plural, in the present tense — except for the third-person...

[16th ed.] The Chicago Manual of Style Online Chapter 5 Contents
Tenses generally 5.123 Present tense 5.124 Past tense 5.125 Future tense 5.126 Present perfect tense ...5.127 Past perfect tense 5.128 Future perfect tense 5.129 Person 5.130 Number 5.131 Agreement in person...

[16th ed.] 5.138 Past indicative
such distinction: all such consonants are doubled. Irregular verbs form the past tense in various ways...

[16th ed.] 5.108 Forming participles
limited by person, number, or mood, but does have tense. Two participles are formed from the verb...

[16th ed.] 5.137 Present subjunctive
subjunctive ordinarily uses a past-tense verb (e.g., were ) to connote uncertainty, impossibility, or...

[16th ed.] 5.110 Gerunds
not limited by person, number, or mood, but does have tense. Being a noun, the gerund can be used as...

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