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What describes "went" in the phrase "he went"?

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What describes "went" in the phrase "he went"?
posted Sep 5 by Varun Kumar

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Inflected
The form of the verb carries the tense within the word, e.g. "goes", "went", instead of having an auxiliary to carry it, e.g. "will" in "he will go" (which is periphrasis).

answer Sep 9 by Rajni
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and part the numbers.
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