Brief presentation on verbs and their classification.

1. VERBS
GRAMÁTICA AVANZADA
Presented by:
Diego cazares
Oscar colunga
Yasser gonzalez
February 11th 2015

2. DEFINITION
 A verb is traditionally
defined as a part of
speech that denotes
action or conveys a
state of being.

3. DEFINITION
 Center of a predicate and expresses an act,
occurrence, or mode of being
 Inflected

4. CATEGORIZATION
Action verbs
Stative
verbs

5. INFLECTIONS
PRESENT PAST PARTICIPLE GERUND
TAKE TOOK TAKEN TAKING
PAY PAID PAID PAYING
SEE SAW SEEN SEEING
MAKE MADE MADE MAKING
NOTICE REGULAR FROM IRREGULAR VERB FORMS ABOVE

6. ANOTHER CATEGORIZATION

7. REMINDER
 HELPING VERBS : All forms of the verb to be
plus auxiliary verbs (will, do, does…) and
modals ( may, could,would…).

8. ACTIVITY
 STATE IF THE FOLLOWING VERB FORMS ARE CORRECT OR
INCORRECT:
1. Are they having a good time?
2. I am thinking you are a nice person.
3. It is tasting good
4. You are looking great
5. He's been working since this morning
6. He's having a huge house
7. The food tastes good
8. They are looking at the photo album
9. They are designing a robot
10. She is liking him very much

9. ANSWERS
 REFERENCE SITES:
 http://www.merriam-
webster.com/
 http://grammar.ccc.com
mnet.edu/grammar/auxi
liary.htm
 http://www.towson.edu/
ows/verbs.htm
 http://www.myenglishpa
ges.com/site_php_files/
grammar-exercise-
stative-dynamic-
verbs.php