<Li> Todd Young became a Senator last year . (occurrence) </Li> <Li> Mike Trout is a center fielder . (state of being) </Li> <P> A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive . In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice . A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object . Verbs have tenses: present, to indicate that an action is being carried out; past, to indicate that an action has been done; future, to indicate that an action will be done . </P> <P> In languages where the verb is inflected, it often agrees with its primary argument (the subject) in person, number or gender . With the exception of the verb to be, English shows distinctive agreements only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs, which are marked by adding "- s" (walks) or "- es" (fishes). The rest of the persons are not distinguished in the verb (I walk, you walk, they walk, etc .). </P>

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