Verbs

Verb
A verb is a word or group of word (phrase) that is used to describe an action, state or occurrence.

Role of Verb in a sentence:
Verb forms the main part of the predicate of a sentence. Every complete sentence must have a verb.

Verbs are:
Action: read, do, walk, bring, run, learn, eat etc.
State: be, exist, stand etc.
Occurrence: happen, become etc.

Example:- He is a good man. (Using the most common to be verb)
– We learn from the Web.
– She speaks in English.
– Rimi is thinking about the incident.

Verbs change their form based on time/tense (past, present, and future), person (first person, second person, and third person), number (singular, plural), voice (active and passive) etc.

Kinds of Verb:

Firstly verb is divided into two categories:

i.    Principal or Lexical or Main Verb
ii.   Auxiliary or Helping Verb

i. Principal or Lexical Verb:

Verbs which are used independently without help of other verbs are called Principal or Main verb.

Example:- He is a singer.
– She does her job.
– They have many problems.

Principal verbs are two types depending on the object they take:

a. Transitive verb.

Transitive verb is an action verb that requires one or more objects which receive the action of the verb in a sentence.

Example:
– She reads the book. (verb with the object ‘the book’)
– He gave me a mobile phone. (verb with the object ‘me’ and ‘mobile phone’)
– I saw her in the market.
– Rifat wants a pen form Ryan.

b. Intransitive verb.

Intransitive verb is an action verb that requires no direct object in the sentence.

Example:
– She reads. (no object in the sentence)
– Sit down here.
– The birds are flying.
– She is singing.
– The sun set.
– I walked to the park today.
– I went to the campus for a scheduled class.

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