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Chapter 28
Chapter
Twenty-Eight
Additional Information
about Verbs
College Writing Skills, 5E and College
Writing Skills with Readings, 5E
John Langan
College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5E
©2000 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28
Additional Information about
Verbs
Here are the three areas we’ll discuss
in this section:
• Verb Tense
• Helping Verbs
• Verbals
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Verb Tense. . .
. . . tells you the time
of the action.
Let’s start with the
simple
• present,
• past, and
• future.
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Present Tense
The present tense
tells you that
something is
happening now.
?
Example:
Tom counts the sparrows.
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Past Tense
The past tense tells
you that
something
happened before.
Example:
Sally counted the sparrows
yesterday.
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Future Tense
The future tense
tells you that
something will
happen later.
Example:
Tom and Sally will count the
sparrows next weekend.
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Verb Tense
We can be a little more specific about time
using these other tenses:
•Perfect Tense (Add a form of the verb “have”)
•Progressive Tense (Add a form of the verb “be”)
•Perfect Progressive Tense (Add both the verbs “have” and “be.”)
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Helping Verbs
Which brings us to the
subject of helping
verbs.
There are three verbs
that can both stand
alone and help other
verbs:
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Helping Verbs
Used Alone
Used as Helping Verbs
I was busy.
Mary has the floor.
He did a bad thing.
I was getting tired.
Mary has stepped in it.
He did love her.
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Helping Verbs
Let’s review for a minute:
I was getting tired.
Analysis: verb “be” used as helper = progressive, and past tense of verb
“be” = past progressive.
Mary has stepped in it.
Analysis: verb “have” used as helper = perfect, and present tense
of verb “have” = present perfect.
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Helping Verbs
There are also nine
helping verbs
called
that are always
used together to
help other verbs.
Let’s look at a chart:
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Helping Verbs
Can
Could
May
Might
Shall
Should
Will
Would
Must
I can hope, can’t I?
I could eat more, I suppose.
Roger may be detained.
You might regret that tattoo, Jerry.
I shall see if there’s another room, sir.
John should get his head examined.
William will want to wander around a bit.
Glasses would help, I think.
You must take your feet off that rug, Marty.
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Verbals
Verbals are words
formed from
verbs.
There are three
kinds:
• Infinitives
• Participles
• Gerunds
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Verbals
An
is
“to” + “steal” =
formed by adding
“to steal”
the word “to” to
the base form of
Example:
the verb.
Jesse James loved to steal
What is the infinitive money from bankers.
of the verb “steal”?
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Verbals
A
is a verb
form used as an
adjective.
The past participle
ends in -ed or is
irregular.
Example:
Looking over her tax returns,
The present
the weeping accountant tugged
participle ends in - her bleached hair.
ing.
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Verbals
A
Let’s make a gerund out of
is the -ing
the verb “bowl.”
form of a verb
“Bowl” + “ing” =
used as a noun.
“Bowling”
Example:
Bowling is not a sport,
because you can smoke
while you’re doing it.
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