VERBS

Describe actions, emotions and states.

There are three main types:

· Main verbs

· Auxiliary verbs

· Modal verbs

1. Main Verbs:

Form well-made sentences. They carry the main meaning.

Example: Walk

Talk

Expect

Grow

2. Auxiliary Verbs and Auxiliary Modals:

They indicate the grammatical tenses in the negative and interrogative forms.

Verbs: be, have, do

Modals: shall, will

3. Modals Verbs

They express possibility, capacity, permission, suggestion, desires or necessity.

They are: Can Could

May Might

Must Ought to

Should Would

Examples: He can do it

She might do it

Tense

A verb or verb phrase referring to the time of the action. A form that takes the verb depending on the time it is expressing.

There are three basic forms:

Simple tenses

Rashid catches the bus to school most days

Continues tenses

Rashid is catching the bus this morning

Perfect tenses

Rashid has caught the bus right now

Verbs Forms

There are four or five different forms

The base or infinitive form

Talk, expect, grow, talks, expects, grows

Present participle

Talking, expecting, growing

The past tense

Talked, expected, grew

The past participle

Talked, expected, grown

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

A. Trans. Verbs:

A verb that has a direct object.

Direct object: a noun phrase or pronoun coming after the verb:

The teacher helped Rebecca

Indirect object: is which can be used after a preposition to express the same meaning or over which refers the verb action in indirect form:

John gave Peter a book

John gave a book to Peter

B. Intransitive Verbs:

A verb that does not have a direct object over which the verb action falls down:

She laughed

She was laughing at him

Exercises

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26829320/The-Basic-Parts-of-Speech

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/parts_of_speech.htm