VERBS AND ITS TYPES

WHAT IS VERB?
Verb is the action word in a sentence that tells what the
subject is doing.
Remember: there could be both action and non-action
verbs. Action verbs

Non-action verbs
She eats chocolate cakes on weekends.

We considered several
applications.
The horse galloped across the field.

I know your name.

 TYPES OF VERBS

Helping
Action verbs verbs/Auxiliary verbs
•Tells what action is •Usually have no meaning
occurring. by themselves.
•Shows physical/mental •Always works with a main
action (action/non- verb. (verb phrase)
action) •There could be up to three
•Answers “what the
helping verbs in a sentence.
•Examples:
subject is doing?”
•Examples: •Susan will run the mile.
•Susan must have been
•Susan ran the mile.
thinking she got her best
•Susan knew what she
time ever,
wanted.
Linking verbs
•Tells something about
the subject present in a
sentence.
•Links the subject with a
noun or an adjective in
the predicate.
•Examples:
•Sunday nights are awful.
•The penguin looks
comical
SUB-TYPES OF ACTION VERBS

Transitive verb
• These are action verbs that express doable activities that relate to or affect something or someone.
• Example: love, respect, tolerate, maintain, etc.
• Gary ate the cookies.
• He kicked John.
• They sold the tickets.

Intransitive verb
• These are action verbs that express doable activities but without having any effect on something or someone.
• Examples: walk, laugh, cough, play, run, etc.
• I coughed in the morning.
• I walked around the park.
• She runs through the door.
 FEW MORE TYPES OF VERBS
1. Stative Verbs: they express a state rather than actions (emotions, thoughts, senses, state of being,
measurements, etc).
Examples-
 The doctor disagrees with your analysis. (disagreement is a state).
 I believe the doctor is right (belief is a state).

2. Modal Verbs: they express abilities, possibilities, permissions, obligations. (can, could, must, may, should,
etc)
Examples-
 You must not delay.
 I should go home.

3. Phrasal Verbs: they are combination of words to express different meanings (make up, bring in, point out,
etc).
Examples-
 Mary looked forward to her school reunion.
 I make up stories all the time.
4. Irregular Verbs: they change their spelling with the tense (present& past).
Examples-
 Julie makes cake for the classroom/ Julie made a cake for the classroom
 We come to Aunt Jane’s for thanksgiving evach year/ We came to Aunt Jane’s for thanksgiving each year.
 EXERCISE
Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in
brackets.
As I entered the room, the first thing that ____ (strike) me as odd, was the candle still ____ (burn)
on the table. The curtains had been ____ (draw) back and the room was bright. No one in their
right minds ____ (keep) a candle ____ (burn) in broad daylight. The large french windows
overlooked the lawn ____ (bath) in sunlight. Marie had probably ____ (catch) my odd stare at
the table and so ____ (move) over and blew the candle out. She then ____ (glance) at the
window and ____ (go) over to open them.
Father was ____ (sit) on the bed and said in a raspy voice, “I don’t like the country air. It does
not suit me well.”
Marie ____ (reply), “You must stay here for a few days. The change of air ____ (be) do you a
world of good. The doctor said so.”
“I don’t care what Thomas ____ (say). I want to go home by the next train.”
“Now you know that is not possible Father. John has ____ (take) the car to town to get some
groceries. He won’t be back until the last train for the day ____ (leave).”
Father kept silent for a bit. No one ____ (win) an argument against Marie.
She ____ (look) at me, ____ (nod) her head and then abruptly ____ (walk) out of the room
leaving the two of us.
I ____ (sit) down on the only chair in the room.
Father said, “I have nothing more to say. ____ (disobey) by one’s own children – what worse a
fate can a man suffer ?”