Parts of Speech- Verbs/Verbals

Every sentence must have a ______. To depict doable activities, use ______ _______. To describe conditions, writers choose ______ _______.

Every sentence must have a VERB. To depict doable activities, use ACTION VERBS. To describe conditions, writers choose LINKING VERBS

Verbs are also classified as either ________ or ______ ______

Verbs are also classified as either FINITE or NON FINITE finite or non-finite.

Linking Verbs

Verbs do not express action. Instead, they connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject. This can be related to the five senses (look, sound, smell, feel, taste) and sometimes verbs that somehow reflect a state of being (appear, seem, become, grow, turn, prove, remain).

Verbs of Inert Perception and Cognition

Verbs of Inert Perception and Cognition (abhor, adore, astonish, believe,desire, detest, dislike, doubt, feel, forgive) Relational Verbs (belong to, concern, consist of, contain, cost)

How to tell the difference from Transitive Verbs and Intransitive Verbs?

You cannot tell the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb by its form; you have to see how the verb is functioning within the sentence.

The progressive forms of a verb

indicate that something is happening or was happening or will be happening. The progressive forms occur only with dynamic verbs, that is, with verbs that show qualities capable of change as opposed to stative verbs, which show qualities not capable of change.

Past tense

indicates that something happened in the past:

Present tense

indicates that something is happening or being now:

The problem with phrasal verbs is that __________________________________________.

their meaning is often, at first, obscure, and they often mean several different things.

Verb Tenses

shows the time of a verb's action or being.

Factitive Verbs

transitive verbs can take two objects, or seem to Verbs like make, choose, judge, elect, select, name.

Progressive tense

which indicate something being or happening, are formed with the present participle form (ending in -ing) along with various auxiliaries.

Verbals

words that seem to carry the idea of action or being but do not function as a true verb. The are sometimes called "nonfinite" (unfinished or incomplete) verbs. There are 3 types: 1.) participle 2.) infinitive 3.) gerund

Non-finite Verbs

"unfinished verb", Verbs that are not marked for tense. These are the present and past participles

Auxiliary Verbs

(will, shall, may, might, can, could, must, ought to, should, would, used to, need) are used in conjunction with main verbs to express shades of time and mood.

Dynamic Verbs

A verb that expresses an action rather than a state Activity Verbs (abandon, ask, beg, call, drink) Process Verbs (change, deteriorate) Verbs of Bodily Sensation Transitional Events Verbs (arrive, die, leave) Momentary Verbs (hit, jump, nod, tap),

Action Verbs

A verb that shows either physical or mental activity.

Regular Verbs

A verb where both the past tense and the past participle are formed by adding -ed or -d to the base form of the verb: walk, walked, walked.

_______ is not part of the verb phrase

ADVERB is not part of the verb phrase

Another, more useful term for non-finite verb is ______.

Another, more useful term for non-finite verb is VERBAL

Infinitive Verbal

Begins with "to" and then a verb; functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb.

Irregular Verbs

The past tense doesn't add an -ed; Usually the past tense and past participle forms are not the same

Sequence of Tenses

The relationship between verbs in a main clause and verbs in dependent clauses is important. These verb tenses don't have to be identical as long as they reflect, logically, shifts in time and meaning

Finite Verbs

The verb makes an assertion or expresses a state of being and can stand by itself as the main verb of a sentence

Ditransitive Verbs

The verbs can take on direct object and an indirect object at the same time in a sentence.

Intransitive Verbs

These verbs do not require objects to complete their meaning

Transitive Verbs

These verbs require an object to complete their meaning.

Phrasal Verbs (Verb Phrases)

This type of verb consist of a verb and another word or phrase, usually a preposition. This happens when casual uses of the language and eventually work themselves into the mainstream of language use. Phrasal verbs can be both intransitive and transitive in its meaning.e word that is joined with a verb in this construction (often a preposition) is called a particle.

Participle Verbal

a verb form usually ending in ING or ED and is used as an adjective.

Verb

a word or set of words that shows action, feeling or state of being. It also carries the idea of being or action in the sentence.

Causative Verbs

designate the action necessary to cause another action to happen. (let, help, allow, have, require, allow, motivate, get, make, convince, hire, assist, encourage, permit, employ, force) Most of them are followed by an object (noun or pronoun) followed by an infinitive (have, make and let) are followed by a noun/pronoun and the base form of the verb (which is actually an infinitive with the "to" left off)

Gerund Verbal

ends in -ing; functions as a noun.