VERBS

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I write

Children play

Main Verbs
They run

We laugh
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Classification of Main Verbs

TRANSITIVE AND DYNAMIC AND REGULAR AND

INTRANSITIVE STATIVE IRREGULAR
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Transitive and
Intransitive
 Transitive Verbs take a
direct object
 Somebody killed the
dragon
 Intransitive verbs do
not require an object
 He died
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Dynamic and Stative

 Dynamic: Action describing verbs

 May be used with continuous tenses
 Hit, kill, fight, go, grow, throw, explode etc.
 Stative: Verbs describing a state or a situation
 May not be used with continuous tenses. If used, the meaning changes
 Like, love, prefer, impress, hear, see, sound, belong to, consist of, resemble etc.
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Examples
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When to “ing” and when not to “ing”
➢ When there is no control over the action: Stative Verb
➢ Continuous tenses are all about being in the driving
seat(being in control)
➢ I am feeding the sharks. (Action is in your control):Dynamic
➢ Things that are not in control: heart, mind(What you believe?
What you understand? What you know? Who you know?)
existence, perception etc.
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Regular Verbs: Irregular Verbs:

Ones that follow a same pattern and Verbs that have the same base form,
create the past simple and past past simple and past participle form
participle form of verbs(by adding an “- • Cut, cut, cut
ed” at the end of the base form).
• Hurt, hurt, hurt
• Cook, cooked, cooked • Let, let, let
• Turn, turned, turned • Put, put, put
• Arrive, arrived, arrived
• Marry, married, married
 Regular and Irregular Verbs

 Irregular Verbs:
 Verbs that have the same past simple and past participle form
 Bring, brought, brought
 Make, made, made
 Keep, kept, kept
 Teach, taught, taught
 Verbs that have the same base form and past participle form
 Come, came, come
 Run, ran, run
 Become, became, become

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 Regular and Irregular Verbs

 Irregular Verbs:
 Verbs that have a different base form, past simple and past
participle form
 Be, was/were, been
 Break, broke, broken
 Choose, chose, chosen
 Do did, done
 See, saw, seen

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