Types of verb

1. Action verbs

Action verbs express specific actions and are used any time you want to show action or discuss someone doing something. It’s important to remember that the action does not have to be physical.

Examples of Action verbs:

1. I run faster than David.
2. She thinks about poetry all day long
3. He does it well.

2. Transitive verbs

Transitive verbs are action verbs that always express doable activities that relate or affect someone or something else. These other things are generally direct objects, nouns or pronouns that are affected by the verb, though some verbs can also take an indirect object, such as show, take, and make. In a sentence with a transitive verb, someone or something receives the action of the verb.

Examples of Transitive verbs:

1. He kicked John
2. They sold the tickets

3. Intransitive verbs

Intransitive verbs are action verbs that always express doable activities. They are different from transitive verbs because there is no direct object following an intransitive verb.

Examples of Intransitive verbs:

1. I sneeze in the morning.
2. Kathryn sat away from the others.

4. Auxiliary verbs

Auxiliary verbs are also known as helping verbs and are used together with a main verb to show the verb’s tense or to form a question or negative. Common examples of auxiliary verbs include have, might, will. These auxiliary verbs give some context to the main verb, for example, letting the reader know when the action took place.

Examples of Auxiliary verbs:

1. I may dance with you later.
2. Did we consider Bryan’s feelings?

5. Stative verbs

Stative verbs can be recognized because they express a state rather than an action. They typically relate to thoughts, emotions, relationships, senses, states of being, and measurements. The best way to think about stative verbs is that they are verbs that describe things that are not actions. The stative verbs are all expressing a state: A state of doubting, a state of believing, a state of wanting. These states of being are often temporary.

Examples of Stative verbs:

1. The doctor disagrees with your analysis.
2. John doubts the doctor’s opinion.

6. Distributive Adjective

• Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs that are used to express abilities, possibilities, permissions, and obligations.

Examples of Distributive adjective:

1. I should go home
2. David may be late.

7. Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs aren’t single words; instead, they are combinations of words that are used together to take on a different meaning to that of the original verb. There are many examples of phrasal verbs, some of which have colloquial meanings, such as make up, hand in, bring up, point out, look forward to. Each time the verb takes the extra word(s) it takes on a new meaning. For example, make without the up expresses that something is being created, whereas with make up, the suggestion is that there are some lies or a fantastical element to the story and make out can mean either to grasp or see something difficult, or to kiss passionately.

Examples of Phrasal verbs:

1. He brought up the same points again and again.
2. She pointed out Donald’s mistake.

8. Irregular verbs

Irregular verbs are those that don’t take on the regular spelling patterns of past simple and past participle verbs. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of irregular verbs in the English language. But don’t worry, while many are used often, the majority are not in common usage – or if they are, you will use them so often you will learn them quickly. Some of the most common irregular verbs include: say, make, go, take, come, know and see.

Examples of Irregular verbs:

1. I take my time when I go to the shops .
2. She saw a silhouette shaped like a man in the window.

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