1. What is the conjugation of the words?
2. What are the conjugations of the words?
show -
give -
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Which question is correct?
Of those two questions, the first one is correct. Grammatically, we rarely refer to conjugations (plural).
http://www.answers.com/conjugation
Notice there is no plural form given.
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Both questions are grammatically correct, but they are asking for different things:
1. "What is the conjugation of the words?" - This question is asking for the conjugation of each individual word. It implies that there is only one correct conjugation for each word.
2. "What are the conjugations of the words?" - This question is asking for all the possible conjugations of each word. It suggests that there may be multiple correct conjugations for each word, depending on the tense, person, or other grammatical factors.
Now, let's address the conjugations of the words "show" and "give":
- "Show":
- Present Simple: show
- Past Simple: showed
- Present Continuous: showing
- Past Continuous: was/were showing
- Present Perfect: have/has shown
- Past Perfect: had shown
- Future Simple: will show
- Future Perfect: will have shown
- "Give":
- Present Simple: give
- Past Simple: gave
- Present Continuous: giving
- Past Continuous: was/were giving
- Present Perfect: have/has given
- Past Perfect: had given
- Future Simple: will give
- Future Perfect: will have given
Please note that the above conjugations are not exhaustive and can vary depending on the context and specific grammar rules of the language you are referring to.