- Finite verb forms include: I go, she goes, he went
- Non-finite verb forms include: to go, going, gone
- Most finite verbs can take an -ed or a -d at the end of the word to indicate time in the past:cough, coughed; celebrate, celebrated.
- Nearly all finite verbs take an -s at the end of the word to indicate the present when the subject of the verb is third-person singular: cough, he coughs; celebrate, she celebrates.
- Finite verbs are often groups of words that include such auxiliary verbs as can, must, have, and be: can be suffering, must eat, will have gone.
- Finite verbs usually follow their subjects: He coughs. The documents had compromised him. They will have gone.
- Finite verbs surround their subjects when some forms of a question are asked: Is he coughing? Did they celebrate?