VERB : VERB Types of verbs
Slide 2 : A word that denotes or indicates an action is known as verb.
In other words action words are called verbs.
e.g. :
dance, walk, sleep, eat, run, sing, think etc.
I love my parents.
I didn’t break the glass. verb
There are 2 kinds of verb : There are 2 kinds of verb
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Slide 5 : The primary auxiliaries can be called the helping verbs which assist the main verbs to perform a few functions.
The primary auxiliaries change according to the number and the person of the subject and the tense also affects them.
What are theses functions? Why the primary auxiliaries are used?
The primary auxiliaries are used:
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Slide 7 : The modal auxiliaries show the mode or the manner of the actions expressed by the main verbs or the principal verbs.
The modals do not change according to the number or the person of the subject.
The main verb after a modal always is written in the first form. Modal auxiliaries
Slide 8 : In the absence of main verbs these auxiliaries function as the main verbs.
Slide 9 : The main verbs tell us about what has happened and what is the situation.
The regular verbs have 5 forms :
eg: to walk, walk, walks, walked, walking.
Some irregular verbs have 6 forms :
eg: to go, go, goes, went, gone, going
We can call them ‘full verbs’ or ‘ordinary verbs’ also. Finite verbs
Slide 10 : Types of verbs
Slide 11 : Examples of transitive verbs:
He plays cricket.
She broke the glass.
Both the verbs ‘plays’ and ‘broke’ carry an object after them ‘cricket’ and ‘glass’ respectively which are giving us the answer of ‘what’. He plays (what)? And the answer is he plays cricket. Thus both these verbs can be called transitive verbs.
Slide 12 : Examples of intransitive verbs:
She laughed.
Jim ran fast.
In these sentences the verbs ‘laughed’ and ‘ran’
Do not carry any object after them. We can not add any object to them but we can add adverbs with these verbs. So these are called intransitive verbs. These adverbs do not give us the answer of ‘what’. Here in the 2nd sentence it gives us the answer of ‘how’ instead of ‘what’.
Slide 13 : Types of non-finite verbs
Slide 14 : The infinitives act as a NOUN.
It may be used as :
subject
object
complement (of verb or object) Infinitives
Slide 15 : Types of infinitives
Slide 16 : In the bare infinitives we do not use ‘to’. There are certain verbs after which we don’t use ‘to’ with infinitives. Thus ,they are called the bare infinitives.
Some of these verbs are:
make watch dare bid let see hear etc…
‘had better’ & ‘would rather’ are also used without ‘to’.
Slide 17 : The participles act as the adjectives in the sentence and hence they are called verb adjectives.
The present participle with the ‘-ing’ and the past participle with the ‘-ed/3rd form of the verb’ are used to make these adjectives. Participles (verb adjectives)
Slide 18 : E.g. : He told me an interesting story.
In this sentence ‘interesting’ is the present participle with ‘-ing’ form of verb and is an adjective to the noun ‘story’. ‘an interesting story’ functioning as the object of verb ‘told’.
E.g. : He is a retired professor.
In this sentence the word ‘retired’ is the past participle with ‘-ed’ form of verb and is modifying the noun ‘professor’. This phrase is here functioning as a complement to the verb ‘is’.
Slide 19 : In gerunds present participles are used as nouns.
Like nouns, they also can function as subject, object or complement of the verb.
E.g. : smoking is injurious to health.
In this sentence the word ‘smoking’ is not an adjective nor it is a part of verb of present participle but a noun. It functions here as the subject of the verb ‘is’. Gerunds (verb-nouns)
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