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· 01 Nov 2021

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What is verb

A word which is used to describe an action, state or occurrence, and forms the main part of the predicate of the sentence is called the verb.

Examples include: hear, become, happen.

The word verb was derived from the Latin verbum meaning 'word'.  Verb is actually a word(part of speech) that in syntax conveys and describes an action( for example: bring, read, run, walk, learn), or an occurrence of something( happen, become), or a state of being/ existing( be, exist, stand). 

Verbs are usually referred to as the soul of the sentence.

There are usually 11 different types of verbs studied. 

• Action verbs

• Stative verbs

• Transitive verbs

• Intransitive verbs

• Helping verbs

• Regular verbs

• Modal verbs

• Irregular verbs

• Phrasal verbs

• Infinitives

Helping verbs are also called auxiliary verbs.

1. Action verbs:

As their name indicates, action verbs are usually used to refer to the actions.

These verbs can refer to the physical actions that are performed with bodies or objects such as hit , jump etc or the mental action in which we have to use our brains to perform i.e think, memorize etc. Most of their verbs are action verbs.

List of the action verbs

• Swim 

• Run

• Help

• Ignore, etc.

1. Stative verbs:

These verbs refer to the conditions or states.

These are used to describe things like qualities, states, opinions and sometimes emotions.

List of stative verbs

• Love 

• Want 

• Own, etc

1. Transitive verb:

The verb is directly followed by an object in a sentence, which may be a noun, pronoun or noun phrase.

Examples of transitive verb

• She really hates almonds.

• Rhea ate chocolate.

1. Intransitive verbs

These are not directly followed by the object.

Examples:

• Airplanes fly 

1. Linking verbs

These are a type of stative verbs, actually, usef to link a subject with a complement.

List of linking verbs:

• Be

• Become

• Seem

• Grow

1. Auxiliary verbs(helping verbs)

These are actually helpful verbs. These combine with the main verb .

List of helping verbs

• Be

• Have

• Do

• Can, etc.

1. Modal verbs

These are subtypes of helping verbs used to give sentences a specific mood.

List of modal verbs:

• Can

• May

• Might 

• Ought

• Should

• Must

• Could

• Would, etc.

1. Regular verbs:

These are in past sentence form or past participle form  -ed or -d.

List of regular verbs

• Jump changed to jumped

• Type changed to typed

• Sleep changes to slept, etc.

1. Irregular verbs:

Past and past participles of irregular verbs don't end in -ed or -d.

1. Phrasal verbs:

These are a combination of verbs with preposition or adverbs.

List of phrasal verbs

• Ask for

• Put up with, etc.

1. Infinitives:

This is a special case, sometimes considered as a verb and sometimes not, sometimes bare( used without preposition 'to') and sometimes used with to. There is not much knowledge about his type of the verb or to regard it as a type of verb or not.

To convey the complete meaning of a sentence verbs are very necessary without which the sentence cannot convey its complete meaning, so that is the reason verbs are called as the soul of the sentence.