In principle, each tense stem provides five moods for the finite verb (with personal endings), a participle, and an infinitive.
The Greek verb has two voices, active and mediopassive (reflexive and passive), which are expressed (leaving aside the aorist passive) by the opposition of two series of personal endings, for each mood (with participle and infinitive) of each tense stem.
In the Apabhraṃśa verb system, present tense stems in -a predominate.
The verb system is organized around four principal tense stems, which are built on the verb stem: "present," aorist, "perfect," and future.
Subjects also confirmed that present tense "capability" stems were clearer than past tense "performance" stems (8.9% versus 15.5%).
Retained items were edited, wherever possible, to conform to the PROMIS conventions [ 8] of using the present tense, a capability stem ("Are you able", "Does your health now limit you"), no time frame, no disease attribution, and a five-item response set with the most negative response at the far right of the scale.
Items are framed in the present tense, with a capability stem and a corresponding capability response set (for example, "Are you able to... .......... from "no difficulty" to "unable to do").
Additional information, such as part of speech and tense, is reflected in the stem's vocalic (vowel) and syllabic features, called the pattern.
Grammatical meanings, such as part of speech and tense, are reflected in the stem's vocalic (vowel) and syllabic features the pattern.
*Can Venus Williams, visibly tense this past week, cope with expectations stemming from her success last year and the record-breaking $40 million Reebok deal she recently signed?
A subset of children were probed on present and past tense preferences for the item stems; 8 preferred the present tense, 8 preferred the past tense, and 9 had no stated preference when referring to the past 7 days.
