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Rs/L1.1 Ws/L1.2 Identifying verbs Verbs tell us what people (or things) are doing or being. They can change according to the time being spoken about - past, present or future: For example: Sam finished his homework in the library. In this sentence ‘finished’ is the verb (it says what Sam did with his homework in the past). ‘Sam’ is the subject of the sentence because the verb tells us what he did. All sentences need a verb. Here are some examples: Jenny reads the Metro on the train every morning. That bicycle belongs to me. Two verbs are sometimes put together, especially with verbs like can, must, should. I can see the sea from my house. You really must see the new Bond film. We can also use more than one word to form a tense: We have been driving for hours. There can also be more than one verb in a sentence: 1. When a verb is followed by an infinitive (a verb with no tense, usually after ‘to’): The children didn’t want to go home. 2. When a sentence has two subjects: We’ll talk about the party when Simon comes home. (The two subjects are ‘We’ and ‘Simon’.) © BBC 2011