Verb Conjugations
After a stress-riddled hiatus because of college applications, I am back to talk about verbs! Verbs get really, really messy, and I don't like that, but here we are. I'll try to make it easy, but if you dive in yourself you'll get to see a lot of cool but complicated linguistic features. Here I will walk about tense, aspect and mood, the trifecta of verbs. Verbs encode information about each of these, and sometimes information about the subject as well. As usual, this information manifests in the form of an affix or a particle of some sort. Examples in English include "I had read" vs "I will read" (particle "had" encodes perfect aspect) and "I land" vs " landed" ("-ed" encodes past tense). Tense tells of when the action took place in time relative to other actions. This is a pretty straightforward concept and is the one we all know and love. English has past and non-past verb forms, and adding "will"...