Terms that are used to name Forms of the Verb that do not make agree with Persons

Names		Assessment
in English	in Russian
Nominal	именные	Contradicts with the notion of the Verb, its Grammatical Meaning
Non-Predicative	непредикативные	Contradiction: even though Non-Finite Forms of the Verb are really non-predicative (cannot serve the syntactic function of the Predicate in a Sentence), they still can be a part of the Predicate, serve the syntactic function of the Complement of the Compound Predicate
Non-Finite	Неличные нефинитные вербалии	Appraisal: a significant relevant propriety of these forms of the Verb is emphasized: the absence of Grammatical Category of Person in them
Verbals
Verbids

Non-finite Forms are included to the system of the Verb on the ground of the following characteristics:

1. They keep the Grammatical Meaning of the Verb.

2. They all can be formed from any verb; the exception is Modals (which have a defective paradigm and neither change nor produce other forms).

3. They have the Paradigm of forms of the Time and Aspect/Kind of Time and the Paradigm of the Voice Forms.

4. The model of their government coincides with the one of the Finite Forms (they are also defined by the Adverb and demand the Complement).

There are different number of Non-Finite Forms distinguished in Classical and Traditional Grammar (drawing 6.1).

Classical Grammar: Principle of Morphological Form and Syntactic Function			Traditional Grammar: Principle of Morphological Form
Infinitive	4 in number		Infinitive	3 in number
Gerund			-ing-Form: *Participle I (Present Participle); *Gerund
Participle I (Present Participle)
Participle II (Past Participle)			Participle II (Past Participle)

Drawing 6.1. Classification of Non-finite Forms

6.2. The Paradigm of the Non-Finite Forms

General Paradigm of the Non-Finite Forms of the Verb which is grounded on the Traditional Classification is presented in the tab. 6.2.

Table 6.2

The General Paradigm of the Non-Finite Forms of the Verb

Form (eat)	Infinitive		-ing (Participle I and Gerund: morphologically are the same)		Participle II
	Active	Passive	Active	Passive
Simple	(to) eat	(to) be eaten	eating	being eaten	E A T E N
Continuous	(to) be eating	__	__	__
Perfect	(to) have eaten	(to) have been eaten	having eaten	having been eaten
Perfect Continuous	(to) have been eating	__	__	__

Infinitive includes 4 general Forms, 2 of which are used in Active and Passive and 2 – only in Active (in sum total – 6):

1. 2 units (Active and Passive) of Simple (Present) Form;

2. 2 units (Active and Passive) of Perfect Form;

3. I unit (Active) of Continuous Form;

4. 1 unit (Active) of Perfect Continuous Form.

-ing Form (Gerund and Participle I) includes 2 Forms in Active and Passive (in sum total – 4):

1. 2 units (Active and Passive) of Simple Form;

2. 2 units (Active and Passive) of Perfect Form.

There can not be any Continuous (Perfect Continuous) Form for the –ing Form primordially expresses certain longevity and emphasizes the process as it is.

Participle II has only one form in all the cases.

Traditional Paradigm seems to be logic if we classify the forms on the ground of the principle Morphological Form. Though when we analyze the forms being led by the Principle of Syntactic Function, Gerund and Participle should be distinguished for the former can be used in the Sentence as the Predicate and Predicative (syntactic propriety of the Noun) and the latter can be used as a certain Attribute or in Predicative Complexes (propriety of the Adjective and the Verb). Though in such division there, firstly, will be a morphological confusion and, secondly, Past Participle (Participle II) appears to be unique as no other verbal form can be used in such aspect.