This document provides information about different types of verbs in English. It begins by defining what a verb is and giving examples of common verbs. It then discusses and provides examples of transitive and intransitive verbs, regular and irregular verbs, finite and non-finite verbs, auxiliary verbs, stative verbs, and modal verbs. For each verb type, it provides clear definitions and examples to illustrate the concepts. It also includes exercises for the reader to practice identifying and using the different verb types.

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3. What is Verb?
A verb is a word which describes the action
in a sentence (the doing word).
Examples
I play football.
They skip quickly.
We eat spaghetti.
Bob is seven today.
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4. Let’s Practice:
Jacob beats on his drum all day.
Who? Jacob
“What does Jacob do?”
beats
The verb is beats, it’s what Jacob is doing.
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5. Kinds of Verbs
•Transitive & Intransitive verbs
•Regular and Irregular verbs
•Finite and Non-Finite verbs
•Auxiliary verbs
•Stative verbs
•Modal verbs
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6. Transitive Verbs
Express an action directed toward a person, a
place, a thing, or an idea (a.k.a., nouns)
The action passes from the doer (the subject) to
the receiver of the action.
The words that receive the action of transitive
verbs  direct objects  always nouns
Transitive verbs can only be action verbs.
Linking verbs are NEVER transitive.
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7. Transitive Verbs: Examples
• Derrick greeted the visitors.
Derrick greeted whom? The action (greeted)
passes from the subject (Derrick) to the object
(visitors).
• When will Felicia paint her room?
Felicia will paint what? The action (will paint)
passes from the subject (Felicia) to the object
(room).
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8. Intransitive Verbs
• Express action or tell something about the
subject without the action passing to a
receiver, or object
• Intransitive verbs may be either action or
linking verbs.
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9. Intransitive Verbs: Examples
• The train stopped.
• The train stopped what? There is nothing in the
sentence to say what the train stopped (i.e., there
is no object). There is no transfer of action.
• Last night we ate on the patio.
• We ate what? There is nothing in the sentence to
say what we ate (i.e., there is no object). We did
not eat some “on the patio.” This is a
prepositional phrase telling where we ate, not
what. There is no transfer of action.
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10. Let’s Practice:
• The children play checkers. (Transitive / Intransitive)
• The children play quietly. (Transitive / Intransitive)
• Mr. Lopez is baking bread. (Transitive / Intransitive)
• Mr. Lopez is baking this afternoon. (Transitive /
Intransitive)
• Have Roland and Tracy left their coats? (Transitive /
Intransitive)
• Have Roland and Tracy left yet? (Transitive /
Intransitive)
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11. Identify the verbs &
tell whether it is Transitive or Intransitive
1. Melanie ate a baked potato.
2. Hector and Tom are reading.
3. They painted the house.
4. Did you carry his suitcase?
5. My plant grows quickly.
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12. Regular Verb
• A verb that forms its past tense & present
participle by adding.
–d or –ed
• Or in some cases –t to the base form (which
is known as weak verb).
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13. Example of Base Form
Walk
Laugh
Listen
Believe
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14. Examples of –s form
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out
to be good, I am satisfied.“
Examples of –ed Form
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and
found no statues of committees.
Examples of –ing Form
I've always been trying hard to give the best and
got the best result after being rewarded.
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15. Irregular Verb
A verb that does not follow the usual rules
for verb forms
Verbs in English are irregular if they don't
have a conventional -ed ending (like asked or
ended)
Example:1. Throughout my career I swam
for form. Speed came as a result.
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16. Difference between Regular
& Irregular Verbs
Those verbs that form their past participle with ‘d’
or ‘ed’ are regular verbs.
PRESENT TENSE
Share
Scare
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PAST TENSE
Shared
Scared
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17. Past Verb
Those verbs that undergo substantial changes
when changing forms between tenses are
irregular verbs.
PRESENT TENSE
PAST TENSE
Go
Run
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Went
Ran
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18. Exercise
• My Mother ______ late nights
(Has worked, works, working)
• Yesterday, I ______ the dog for a long.
walk.
(Took, Take, Taken)
• I _________ my own vegetables last year
(grows, grown, grew)
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19. Finite Verb
Verbs which have the past or the present
form are called FINITE verbs
If there is just one verb in a sentence, it is finite.
Finite verbs are sometimes called tensed verbs.
Examples of Finite Verb
1.Drive a car. [1st person, singular, present tense]
2. He drives a car. [3rd person, singular. present
tense]
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20. Infinite Verb
Verbs in any other form (infinitive, -ing or
-ed) are called Infinite Verbs.
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21. Examples
• David Plays Piano
• My sister spoke
French on holiday
• Leaving home can be
very traumatic
• It took courage to
continue after the
accident
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• Finite
• Finite
• Nonfinite
• Non Finite
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22. Exercise on Finite
& Infinite Verbs
• Paul runs to work
every day
• They have run away
together
• Finite
• Infinite
• Katie was watching TV
when the phone rang
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• Finite
• Infinite
• Finite
• Infinite
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23. Auxiliary Verbs
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Also called helping verbs. They have no meaning on their
own. They are necessary for the grammatical structure of
a sentence, but they do not tell us very much alone. We
usually use helping verbs with main verbs. They "help"
the main verb (which has the real meaning).
There are only about 15 helping verbs in English, and we
divide them into two basic groups:
Primary helping verbs (3 verbs). These are the verbs be,
do, and have.
Note that we can use these three verbs as helping verbs
or as main verbs.
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24. Primary Auxiliary Verbs
Uses of “be”
1. Simple Questions
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We create simple yes/no questions by inverting the
order of subject and the “To be” verb.
Is your brother taller than you?
Were they embarrassed by the comedian?
The same inversion takes place when “To be” is
combined with verbs in the progressive:
Is it snowing in the mountains?
Were your children driving home this weekend?
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25. Let’s Practice using ‘Be’
In progressive tense sentences made with ‘be’, we
always use the ‘-ing’ suffixed version of the main verb.
• She is baking a cake today.
• She was baking a cake yesterday.
• She has been baking a cake today
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26. Exercise on Auxiliary Verbs
• ______ you want tea?
(Do / Does)
• He _______ given his all. (have / has)
• She _______ the boss.
(have / is)
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27. Stative Verbs
A stative verb is one that describes a state of
being, in contrast to a dynamic verb which
describes an action. The difference can be
categorized by saying that stative verbs are static
or unchanging throughout their entire duration,
whereas dynamic verbs describe a process that
changes over time. Many languages distinguish
between these two types in terms of how they
can be used grammatically.
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28. Some Stative Verbs
like
love
hate
need
agree
own
hear
satisfy
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know
please
suppose
understand
remember
appear
astonish
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belong
fit
contain
seem
matter
sound
deny
surprise

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Some verbs can be both stative and dynamic:
Be
be is usually a stative verb, but when it is used in the continuous it means
‘behaving’ or ‘acting’
 are stupid = it’s part of your personality
you
 are being stupid = only now, not usually
you
Think
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think (stative) = have an opinion
I think that coffee is great
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think (dynamic) = consider, have in my head
what are you thinking about? I’m thinking about my next holiday
Have
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have (stative) = own
I have a car
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have (dynamic) = part of an expression
I’m having a party / a picnic / a bath / a good time / a break
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30. Stative Verbs – Exercise 1
A.-Put the verb into the correct form. Use either the
present simple or the present continuous.
• 1. Please don't make so much noise. I
__________________ (study).
• 2. How many languages __________________ (Tom
speak).
• 3. I __________________ (not/belong) to a political
party.
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31. Stative Verbs – Exercise 2
• Right now they (think/are thinking) about buying a new
car.
• Pete (has been knowing/has known) Jane for many years.
• She told me that she (had always loved/had always been
loving) the theatre.
• It (is depending/depends) on what the weather (is
being/is) like on the weekend.
• Pierre (has owned/has been owning) that car for over ten
years.
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32. Modal Verbs
A modal verb (also modal, modal auxiliary verb,
modal auxiliary) is a type of auxiliary verb that is
used to indicate modality – that is, likelihood,
ability, permission, and obligation.
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33. Meaning of Modal Verbs
• Two typical sequences of evolution of modal
meanings are:
• Internal mental ability → internal ability → root
possibility (internal or external ability) →
permission and epistemic possibility
• obligation → probability
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34. Examples
Examples include the English verbs can/could,
may/might, must, will/would, and shall/should.
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You shall not pass.
You should stop that.
She can really sing.
That may be a problem
Sam must go to school.
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35. Exercise on Modal Verbs
Use the below Modal verbs :
can/could, may/might, must, will/would &
shall/should
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Sam …… have done his homework.
Jim ……. be helped.
It ……. be hot outside.
That ……… be a problem.
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