* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download Chapter 15: Verbs
Zulu grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Malay grammar wikipedia , lookup
English clause syntax wikipedia , lookup
Esperanto grammar wikipedia , lookup
Chinese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Portuguese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Kannada grammar wikipedia , lookup
Scottish Gaelic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Udmurt grammar wikipedia , lookup
Macedonian grammar wikipedia , lookup
French grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ojibwe grammar wikipedia , lookup
Navajo grammar wikipedia , lookup
Proto-Indo-European verbs wikipedia , lookup
Old Norse morphology wikipedia , lookup
Old Irish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ukrainian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Japanese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Polish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Germanic strong verb wikipedia , lookup
Ancient Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Swedish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Hebrew grammar wikipedia , lookup
Russian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Lexical semantics wikipedia , lookup
Latin syntax wikipedia , lookup
Germanic weak verb wikipedia , lookup
Turkish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Spanish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Icelandic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Hungarian verbs wikipedia , lookup
Georgian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old English grammar wikipedia , lookup
Sotho verbs wikipedia , lookup
Yiddish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Serbo-Croatian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Chapter 15: Verbs Action Verbs Linking Verbs Helping Verbs Different Kinds of Verbs Action Verbs Transitive Verbs: Directs the action to a receiver of the action Example: The captain rang the bell. (what “rang” – the bell) The receiver of the action is a noun or pronoun Intransitive Verbs: Expresses action about the subject of the sentence but does not direct the action towards another noun/pronoun. Example: The captain rang for dinner. There is no receiver of the action. Mental and Visible Action Verbs Visible Action Sail Rip Bring Traveled Swim Migrates Smile Cried Laughed Mental Action Think Remember Understand Expect Consider Decide Hope Forget Want Linking Verb • Connects a noun or pronoun with a word which describes or renames that noun or pronoun • Example: The Sahara is a desert. The desert feels sweltering. List of Linking Verbs: is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, appears, becomes, feels, grows, looks, remains, seems, smells, sounds, stays, tastes, turns Helping Verbs A verb or verbs added to the main verb to form a verb phrase May be separated by another word such as not, never, hardly, seldom…. Helping Verbs is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been can, could do, does, did has, have, had may, might, must shall, should will, would