Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

The Passive voice: was very widely developed in ME: the phrase ‘ben + second participle could express both a state and an action. Only the context would show which of the two was meant in each particular case.
MnE verb:
Conjugation: important changes took place here: 1) the first person sing. ending – e was lost; the 3d person singular –eth was replaced by –s (the Northern dialect). In Shakespeare’s works both ending are used. In the 17th century it was fully superseded by – s, and –eth was preserved in elevated style. The second person ending – st connected with the personal pronoun ‘thou’ was gradually superseded during the 17th century.
Strong verbs: The 4 forms were reduced to 3: infinitive, past tense, second participle.
The Second participle: The – en ending of the second participle proved strong enough in many verbs to withstand the general tendency to drop unstressed endings. Sometimes 2 forms coexist: with –en and without it: the verb ‘to bite’ – the 2nd participle – bitten or bit. Compare British ‘got’ and American ‘gotten’.
Weak verbs: in weak verbs the distinction between classes disappears. The unstressed – e disappeared in all cases, and is only preservedin words ending in – t/d: end- ended; some strong verbs become weak and some weak verbs become strong. A few irregular verbs became regular.
Invariable verbs: In MnE a group of invariable verbs came into existence. Most of them stemmed from weak verbs with a root ending in –d/t; a few came from strong verbs of different classes: for example, cutten – cutte –cutt – became invariable as a result of disappearance of unstressed endings
The Perfect: the system of perfect forms goes on unfolding in the MnE period. Perfect forms of intransive verbs derived by means of the verb ‘be ‘are coming out of use, but still are rarely found.
Continuous forms occur more frequently, sometimes present simple is used for an action taking place at the moment of speech. Sometimes ‘always’ is used with a continuous form, with an emotional coloring. Sometimes the present and past perfect continuous forms are used. In the 19th century passive continuous forms arise, though they were limited to the present and the past. The mood system developed in MnE towards creating more precise means of expressing modal meanings.