What is Verb?

 

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What is a Verb?

Grammar is full of fun facts and when we understand every aspect of it English becomes a cup of tea for us so let's understand together. Today, we are gonna learn Verb. 

We will learn it means we are doing some action, which is a verb. So, let's discuss it in detail.

A verb is a word that says or tells something about a person or a thing. While writing a sentence we need a verb to make a complete sentence. Therefore, it is the most important word in a sentence. It shows the action of a person or a thing. 

For Example:

• Girls were dancing.
• Harry is eating Pizza.
• He tells a lie.
• The sun sets in the west.
• Boys are Jumping.

Types of Verb:

1. Linking Verbs
2. Helping Verbs
3. Action Verbs
4. Modal Verbs
5. Transitive Verbs
6. Intransitive Verbs
7. Regular Verbs
8. Irregular Verbs

Linking Verbs:

Linking verbs connects a subject with a noun or a pronoun. They stick the sentence together. Although they are considered boring. If you want to understand Grammar properly you need to understand it. 

• My uncle is an engineer.
• You seem sad.
• She smells good.

Helping Verbs:

Helping verbs are also known as auxiliary verbs. They add additional meanings to a sentence. They use a main verb to show mood, emotion, or other grammatical angles.  

• I am ill today.
• We were playing cricket.
• He is studying for exams.

Action Verbs:

Action verbs describe some mental or physical action. They are considered an essential and crucial part of a sentence.

• They removed the picture from the wall.
• These colors should not be used.
• He watched the cricket match again.

Modal Verbs:

Modal verbs are used to show need, possibility, authority, or chance. Although Modal verbs are tricky to use, they are used differently in a sentence.

''Should'' is the most common example of a Modal verb. It is used in a sentence when we give advice, tasks,  duties,  assignments, or expectations to another. 

• The train should arrive at 5:00 pm.
• Alex can sing very well.
• You have to pass the examination.
• If I were you I would not say sorry.

Transitive Verbs:

Transitive verbs are those verbs that transfer their action to the main object to give a clear logic of a sentence. They work with direct objects therefore they need objects in the form of nouns or pronouns.

• She closed the door.
• She read a novel.
• Sarah cooked dinner.
• I lost my wallet.
• He bought a new house.

Intransitive Verbs:

Intransitive Verbs are quite contrary to transitive verbs.  It cannot be used after the main object. They work independently and don't rely on other verbs.

• Harry arrived last Friday.
• She laughed strangely.
• The baby cried.
• Tom panics.
• He smiled.

Regular Verbs:

Regular verbs follow an expected pattern. While writing present tenses they remain the same and don't change form while in past and past participle by adding ''-ed'' in the sentence.

• I played tennis this evening.
• The sheep jumped over the fence.
• She cooked pizza for the kids.
• He accepted his apology.

Irregular Verbs:

Irregular verbs are action words. They didn't follow any pattern They worked independently. Words like ear, go, sleep, and grow are some examples of irregular verbs.

• She went to Istanbul.
• I fell in the mud.
• She felt ill.
• He read a novel.

Categories of Verb:

1. Present time.

2. Past time.

3. Future time.

Present Tense:

A verb that indicates the present time is apparently in the Present tense.  The present tense is divided into four parts.

• Present Indefinite
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous

Past Tense:

A verb that refers to something that happens in the past falls in the Past tense. The Past tense is divided into four parts.

• Past Indefinite
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous

Future Tense:

A verb that indicates something that happens in the future is the Future tense. The future tense is divided into four parts.

• Past Indefinite 
• Present Continuous 
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous

 

If you want to understand these tenses click the link below👇

https://www.learningwithlaiba.com/2023/11/present-indefinite-and-present.html

https://www.learningwithlaiba.com/2023/11/past-tenses.html

https://www.learningwithlaiba.com/2023/11/future-tense.html