ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PAY
From Old French payer, from Latin pācāre to appease (a creditor), from pāxpeace.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PAY
PRESENT
Present
I pay
you pay
he/she/it pays
we pay
you pay
they pay
Present continuous
I am paying
you are paying
he/she/it is paying
we are paying
you are paying
they are paying
Present perfect
I have paid
you have paid
he/she/it has paid
we have paid
you have paid
they have paid
Present perfect continuous
I have been paying
you have been paying
he/she/it has been paying
we have been paying
you have been paying
they have been paying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I paid
you paid
he/she/it paid
we paid
you paid
they paid
Past continuous
I was paying
you were paying
he/she/it was paying
we were paying
you were paying
they were paying
Past perfect
I had paid
you had paid
he/she/it had paid
we had paid
you had paid
they had paid
Past perfect continuous
I had been paying
you had been paying
he/she/it had been paying
we had been paying
you had been paying
they had been paying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will pay
you will pay
he/she/it will pay
we will pay
you will pay
they will pay
Future continuous
I will be paying
you will be paying
he/she/it will be paying
we will be paying
you will be paying
they will be paying
Future perfect
I will have paid
you will have paid
he/she/it will have paid
we will have paid
you will have paid
they will have paid
Future perfect continuous
I will have been paying
you will have been paying
he/she/it will have been paying
we will have been paying
you will have been paying
they will have been paying
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would pay
you would pay
he/she/it would pay
we would pay
you would pay
they would pay
Conditional continuous
I would be paying
you would be paying
he/she/it would be paying
we would be paying
you would be paying
they would be paying
Conditional perfect
I would have pay
you would have pay
he/she/it would have pay
we would have pay
you would have pay
they would have pay
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been paying
you would have been paying
he/she/it would have been paying
we would have been paying
you would have been paying
they would have been paying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you pay
we let´s pay
you pay
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
paying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY»
The term «pay» is very widely used and occupies the
1.717 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
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10 QUOTES WITH «PAY»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
pay.
When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.
Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY»
Discover the use of
pay in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pay and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pay for Play: A History of Big-time College Athletic Reform
This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the ...
Ronald Austin Smith, 2011
2
All Work, No
Pay: Finding an Internship, Building Your ...
"This guide from Intern Queen Lauren Berger shows college students (and others) how to find and land impressive internships and get the most out of them, from work experience to networking to resume building"--Provided by publisher.
3
Making Crime
Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American ...
1. Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. 2.
PAY IT FORWARD begins when social studies teacher Reuben St Clair gives his class an extra assignment: implement a plan that will change the world.
Catherine Ryan Hyde, 2012
5
Pay for Performance:: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and ...
Pay for Performance is the best resource to date on the issues of whether these concepts work and how they can be applied most effectively in the workplace.
Committee on Performance Appraisal for Merit Pay, Anne S. Mavor, Renae F. Broderick, 1991
6
The Price to
Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ
The story of an Iraqi's conversion from Islam to Christianity, and how this effects him and his family.
7
The Price We
Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of ...
"Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation.
C. R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin, 2007
8
Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports
So there should be a wide readership for this intelligent guide to reading newspapers' sports pages, which increasingly resemble business pages."--George Will
9
People, Performance, &
Pay: Dynamic Compensation for ...
People, Performance, and Pay identifies today's four most common organizational work cultures - functional, process, time-based, and network - and explains how to align innovative pay policies with each.
Thomas P. Flannery, David A. Hofrichter, Paul E. Platten, 2002
10
Hell to
Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, ...
These facts are well known and have been recounted, with varying degrees of accuracy, in a variety of books and articles. A common theme in these works is their reliance on a relatively few declassified high-level planning documents.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pay is used in the context of the following news items.
Chrysler to pay $105 million for mishandling recalls
Of the $105 million Chrysler agreed to pay, $70 million is a cash penalty. The company will also pay another $20 million "on meeting ... «CNNMoney, Jul 15»
Too soon to say how many will pay water fees, Ervia chief says
It will take at least another year before Irish Water can get a true sense of how many households will pay water charges, according to the chief ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Vet with cancer selling baseball card collection to pay bills
Vet Brad Solomon is selling his baseball cards to pay for his cancer ... he's now selling his baseball card collection to try to pay the bills. «FOX31 Denver, Jul 15»
50 Cent ordered to pay $2m extra in damages to woman whose sex …
50 Cent has been ordered to pay another $2 million (£1.2m) in damages to a woman who featured in a sex tape he posted on the internet ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Restauranteur that sued Rob Ford fails to pay $200000 legal tab
A writ of execution has now been issued, he said, asking that Foulidis's East York home be sold to pay the legal costs from “the proceeds of the ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
UFC on FOX 16's Reebok pay: Miller, Castillo earn big checks in …
With the new UFC-Reebok sponsorship program, the fighters from Saturday's UFC on FOX 16 event took home official estimated payouts ... «MMAjunkie.com, Jul 15»
Buffett rule would force 31000 families to pay more tax
Labor's Anthony Albanese pushed for the idea, named for US billionaire Warren Buffett who called for the rich to pay more tax, saying 75 ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
Government to pay for guard forced to move after Ravenhall riot
The Victorian government is expected to pay for the relocation costs of a prison guard at the Metropolitan Remand Centre and his family, after ... «The Age, Jul 15»
NHS spends £1.8bn on staff redundancy pay-offs following …
About £1.8bn has been spent on NHS staff redundancy pay-offs since the Government's restructuring of the health service, according to new ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
PFA boss Gordon Taylor gets £2million-a-year pay rise
Mr Taylor's pay and benefits package of almost £3.4million in 2014 is likely to ... The 2014 pay package included a salary of £2.9million, with ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
