The grammars of creole languages often, though not universally, share a number of structural features, even in cases of languages which developed independently. Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ... A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. ...

The verb conjugation is typically close to an ideal Tense-Modality-Aspect pattern. In this system, the presence or absence of auxiliary verbs indicate tense (concurrent or anterior), modality (realis or irrealis) and aspect (punctual or progressive), and when present these auxiliaries occur in that order, and typically are based on similar meaning words in the pidgin or superstrate language. Thus anterior tense may be marked by words such as bin in English creoles (from been), or té in French creoles (from été), a future or subjunctive tense may be marked by go (from English go) or al (from French aller), and a non-punctual (non-stative) aspect by a word such as stei (from English stay). In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... Mode has several meanings: In statistics, the mode is the value that has the largest number of observations, namely the most frequent value or values. ... Aspect can mean one of the following things: In computer programming, an aspect is a feature that is linked to many parts of a program, but which is not necessarily the primary function of the program. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (to decompose (itself), to glitter), or a state of being (exist, live, soak, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Structures which are similar

• movement rules
• articles
• TMA (Tense-Modality-Aspect) verb systems
• distinction of realized and unrealized complements
• relativization and subject-copying
• negation
• existential and possessive
• copula
• adjectives as verbs
• questions
• question words
• passive equivalents