Tracing a path through the grammatical universe, we do not always find horizontally delineated paths, for there are also winding ones – depending on our inability, we may even get lost along the way.
We will refer in this article to verb conjugations. To carry out such a procedure (conjugate a verb) is to attribute to it all the necessary inflections, whether these are of mood, tense, voice, person and number. Skills that we acquire over time, achieved as we deepen our linguistic studies, depending on the habit of other activities, such as reading and writing. Based on this prerogative, the article in question aims to list some linguistic facts related to verbal inflections, in the sense of making the crookedness mentioned in the title in question not for you a obstacle. So, let's see:
* Correlations between tenses:
If I believe in false truths it would have caused great harm to myself.
We note that because the verb “believe” is expressed in the past tense imperfect of the subjunctive, it is correlated with the verb “to have”, expressed in the past tense of the indicative way.
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If he believe in you, will solve part of the problems.
The same happened with the future of the subjunctive (believe, expressed in the personal way) correlating with the future of the present (will resolve).
* False derivations
If he intervened, everything would be resolved. When the correct thing would be:
If he intervened, everything would be resolved, since the verb to intervene is the verb to come preceded by the prefix “-inter”, which is why it is conjugated like this.
* Inclusion of the vowel "e" in the root of the rhizotonic forms (1st/2nd and 3rd singular and 3rd plural):
Someone needs to intermediate the speech. When the correct thing would be:
Someone needs to intermediate the speech.
* Derivatives of the verb to have
If we don't contain our impulses we will be reprimanded. The proper way is:
If we don't contain our impulses we will be reprimanded.
These were some of the situations in which the occurrence in question applies, however there are many others, which we must pay attention to.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
DUARTE, Vânia Maria do Nascimento. "Verbal inflections: tortuous sight"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/flexoes-verbais-tortuosidades-vista.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
