Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answered them.

Maybe. First question this week comes from Kanseng Shiam. Hi Kanseng.

Kanseng says, hi Alicia. If the first verb in a particular sentence is used in its first form, then what form should the subsequent verb be?

For example, the poet says that the

Great Terror of Russia crippled the Russian people. In this sentence, I used the first form

for the first verb, says. For the second verb, I used the second form of the verb, crippled. Is my

sentence grammatically correct? Can you explain? And when do we use

verb forms one, two, and three? Okay, so first, to clarify for all viewers, this expression,

first form, or second form, or third form, first form refers to the infinitive form of a verb,

so like the simple present tense form. Second form refers to the infinitive form of a verb, so like the simple present tense form.

Second form refers to past tense, and third form refers to the past participle form of a verb.

Second, yes your sentence is grammatically correct, the one that I've just read here.

But third, as far as a rule for when to use, like first or second or third form verbs, you

can make a lot of different combinations.

It just depends on what you want to say.

So you can make grammatically correct sentences by using first and then second or maybe first

and then third, but it just depends on the meaning you would like to communicate.

For example, my parents say I work too much, and my parents have said I worked too much.

My parents said I worked too much last month.

All of these sentences are grammatically correct and all of these sentences

use different combinations of first, second, and third form verbs. It depends on what you

want to say. So a refresher, first form, simple past tense is used for general facts and for things

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