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Identifying Verbs
[Harbrace 7, 7a(9), 7b - 7c, & 11d(1)]
Review
Practice Exercises
Introduction
A verb expresses action or describes
a state of being.
Greg walked the dog.
The children were in the pool.
Jeri had mailed the letter on Wednesday.
The players worked together and became
a team.
Transitive and Intransitive
Verbs [Harbrace 7]
Two types of verbs express action. A transitive
verb transfers action to a direct object.
Sarah poked her head out the window.
An intransitive verb expresses the
action performed by the subject.
She smiled.
Linking Verbs [Harbrace 7 & 7a(9)]
A linking verb expresses a state of
being. A linking verb connects (or "links") the subject
to its complement.
The birds sounded better than ever
before.
Principle Parts of
Verbs [Harbrace 7b]
A verb has four principal forms to make various
tenses. Tenses denote time. Regular verbs end in -d or -ed for
the past tense and the past participle.
play -- present tense
played -- past tense
played -- past participle
playing -- present participle
Irregular verbs have unique patterns.
know -- present tense
knew -- past tense
known -- past participle
knowing -- present participle
Auxiliary Verbs [Harbrace 7]
Auxiliary verbs (sometimes called helping
verbs) combine with the main verb to form a verb phrase:
The big day has arrived.
The auxiliaries be and have are
used to indicate the tense and voice of the main verb.
The number of people attending college has
been increasing dramatically. (Indicates action continuing
from the past, into the present, and possibly into the future.)
We were required to write three essays
during the semester. (The passive voice emphasizes what they had
to do, not who made them do it.)
Other auxiliary verbs known as modal auxiliaries
indicate necessity, possibility, willingness, obligation, and ability.
These include:
can, could
may, might
shall, should
will, would
ought (to), must
EXAMPLE:
It might snow tonight.
Tense [Harbrace 7c]
Tense refers to the form a verb takes
to indicate time.
Present tense - -Max studies his notes.
Past tense -- Max studied his notes.
Future tense -- Max will study his notes.
Perfect tense -- Max has studied his notes.
Present progressive tense -- Max is studying his notes.
Future perfect tense -- Max will have studied for ten hours by tomorrow.
Future progressive -- Max will be studying Spanish next semester.
Voice [Harbrace 7 & 11d(1)]
A verb is in the active voice when
the subject of the verb performs the action.
José greeted the president.
The cat ate the mouse.
A verb is in the passive voice when
the subject is being acted upon.
José was greeted by the president.
The mouse was eaten by the cat.
Mood [Harbrace 7]
A verb's mood indicates the manner
in which the verb is used.
- Indicative Mood (statements, assertions,
questions)
I stopped at the store.
Will you answer the phone?
- Imperative Mood (commands, directions)
Give this book to your friend.
Turn the knob counterclockwise.
- Subjunctive Mood (statements contrary to
fact, possibilities, certain that clauses.) [See also Harbrace 7d]
If she were here, we could call the
meeting to order.
She moved that the meeting be adjourned.
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