Different Types of Verbs.

By Regina Dandreamatteo

What is a verb?
A verb is word used to express an action, a
condition, or a state of being
The three major kinds of verbs are:
action
helping
linking

What is an action verb?

An action verb is a word that shows physycal
or mental action.
Ex:

The fish swims in the water.

I believe that school uniforms are a
good idea.

What are action verbs?

Action verbs can be either
Transitive
or
Intransitive

What is a transitive verb?

Transitive verbs can take a direct object (d.o)
Direct objects answer the question what?
to the verb.
Ex: Susan wrote a novel.
(T.Vb)
(d.o)
Susan writes every day.
(T.vb) (comp.)

What is an intransitive verb?

Intransitive verbs are those that can never
take a direct object. It makes no sense to
ask what? to those verbs.
Ex: I arrived late last night.
Int vb
I came back from Bogot a month
ago.
Int vb

What is a helping verb?

Helping verbs help the main verb express
action or show time. The helping verb and
the main verb together create a Verb Phrase.
Ex: Helen has run in many marathons.
H vb M vb
The most common helping verbs are: to be, to
do, and
to have.

What is a linking verb?

Linking verbs link the subject with an adjective,

noun, or pronoun in the predicate of the sentence.
Ex: The winners of the game were excited.
L vb
His mother is an accountant for a large
company.
L vb

What is a linking verb?

The most common linking verbs are:
to be
to
sound
to become
to taste
to
to
to
to

appear
seem
look
smell

to feel

Action, Helping, or linking?

The students dashed across the hallway.
________
The lost puppy appeared scared.
________
Carol has mailed all the party invitations.
________
Will you call my sister after the concert?
________
Ann and Paul are captains of the team.
________