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VERBS

VERBS
Verbs are the most important component of a sentence.  These verbs show what the subject is doing, what is the state or the situation of the subject.

-     He ran to the car.
-     The horse jumps the hurdles with ease.
-     She sings in a choir.
Types of verbs:
Action verbs   -    Transitive verbs   -   Intransitive verbs   -    Auxiliary verbs   -    Stative verbs    Dynamic verbs   Finite verbs   -    Non-finite verbs   -   Modal verbs   -   Phrasal verbs   -   Irregular verbs
ACTION VERB
Express actions and shows what the subject is doing in the sentence:

-     My father is decorating my bedroom.
-     The Chef is making a delicious cake.
-     The dog is sleeping on his mat.​
TRANSITIVE VERB
These verbs are linked to an action being performed.   If we form a question - what is your father decorating? - the answer is 'my bedroom':

-     My father is decorating my bedroom.
-     The Chef made me a delicious cake.
-     The dog slept on my lap.
INTRANSITIVE VERB
These verbs show an action, but there is no specific subject.

-     My father is decorating at the moment.
-     The Chef is baking right now.
-     The dog sleeps.
AUXILIARY VERB
These verbs come before main verbs in a phrase   -  be   -   shall    -   may    -    could.

-     If all goes well, I shall qualify at the end of the year.
-     We could meet soon to discuss the paper.
-     We may land at Heathrow on time, because the weather is good.
DYNAMIC VERB
These verbs are used to show a process - an action or a sensation   - hit   -   repair    grow  -    throw

-     He is growing old now.
-     She threw the ball for the dog.
-     The car will need a repair.
STATIVE VERB
These verbs define a situation or a state   -   have   -   seem    -    know

-     What do they have to say about the situation?
-     She seems so unwell.
​-     Do you know anything at all?
FINITE VERB
These verbs agree with a given subject   -   appear   -   enjoy   -   love   -   hate    promise

-      He appears very jolly.
-      I promise to change my attitude towards dogs.
-      My boyfriend said that he enjoyed the concert.
NON-FINITE VERB
-     The gardener can expand the boundary.
-     The train will leave shortly.
-     Mother smiled at the news.
IRREGULAR VERB
These are verbs are those that do not end in 'ed'.
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  • Home
  • GRAMMAR
    • ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS
    • ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS
    • CLAUSES
    • CONJUNCTIONS
    • GENDER
    • HOMOGRAPHS / HOMONYMS/HOMOPHONES
    • IDIOMS and METAPHORS
    • INTERJECTIONS and EXCLAMATIONS
    • NOUNS
    • PREPOSITIONS
    • SIMILES
    • SPLIT INFINITIVES
    • SUBJECT and OBJECT
    • VERBS
    • VERB TENSES
  • ODDITIES
    • AFFECT vs EFFECT
    • ALLITERATION, PARALLELISM and POLYPTOTON
    • AMONG vs AMONGST
    • CLICHES
    • CONTINOUSLY vs CONTINUALLY
    • DISINTERESTED vs UNINTERESTED
    • DOUBLE NEGATIVES
    • DUE TO vs OWING TO
    • EITHER .. OR, NEITHER .. NOR
    • FARTHER vs FURTHER
    • I.E vs E.G
    • IF ... WAS vs WERE
    • IMPLY OR INFER
    • MAY and MIGHT
    • NONE WAS vs NONE WERE
    • SHALL or WILL
    • THAT vs WHICH vs WHO
    • THIS, THAT, THESE and THOSE
  • CURIOUS
    • HANDY VERSES
    • WORD SOUNDS
    • SOUNDS OF OBJECTS
  • PUNCTUATION
    • APOSTROPHES and HYPHENS
    • BRACKETS - Round and Square
    • COLON and SEMI-COLON
    • COMMAS and FULL STOPS
    • EXCLAMATIONS and QUESTION MARKS
    • NUMERALS
  • SPELLING
    • DROP, SWAP and DOUBLE
    • FUN THINGS TO DO WITH WORDS
    • PREFIXES and SUFFIXES
    • 'I' BEFORE 'E' and ''Q'' followed by "U"
    • SILENT LETTERS
    • SINGULAR to PLURAL
  • PITFALLS
  • REPORT WRITING - HINTS