1.1: Verb Forms

Question 1

What is the definiton of a verb?

Answer 1

A verb is a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or an experience.

Question 2

What are the verbs in the following sentences?
A. They are teachers.
B. I don’t know your phone number.
C. I have two brothers and a sister
D. Does Joe write all his own reports?

Answer 2

A. ARE
B. DOn’t KNOW
C. HAVE
D. DOES WRITE

Question 3

What are the three different types of verbs?

Answer 3

1. Main verb
2. Auxiliary verb
3. Copula verb

Question 4

All sentences must…

Answer 4

Contain one verb, a main verb or a copula

Question 5

Main verbs (power)

Answer 5

• Are enough to make a sentence grammatical and can do this without any help.

Question 6

What do main verbs express?

Answer 6

An action, event or state.

Question 7

Examples of main verbs in sentences?
* I don’t KNOW your phone number
* I HAVE two brothers and a sister
* Does Joe WRITE all his own reports?

Answer 7

Next.

Question 8

What do auxiliary verbs do? (5 things)

Answer 8

• Indicate grammatical tense
  I have(aux) never seen(main) that film (present perfect)
  I am(aux) falling in love wih you. (present continuous)
• Make a statement negative
  I do(aux)’nt like(main) this.
• Form a question
  Did(aux) you go(main) to class yesterday?
• For stress
  We do(aux) like(main) your cooking! Honestly!
• To make a passive
  This house was(aux) built(main) in 1994.

Question 9

The 3 most common auxiliary verbs are + (warning)

Answer 9

To be, to do, to have
+ These verbs can be used as main verbs as well!!!

Question 10

Name a broad(er) array of auxiliary verbs

Answer 10

to be, to have, to do, can/could, dare, may/might, must, need, ought, shall/should, will/would

Question 11

Auxiliary verbs are also called?

Answer 11

Helping verbs

Question 12

What are copula verbs also called? And why?

Answer 12

Linking verbs, because they help link the subject to an identity (noun) or description (adjective)

Question 13

What are copula verbs?

Answer 13

Copula verbs are verbs that describe the subject of a sentence.

Question 14

Examples of copula verbs:

Answer 14

• John is a baker. (The subject ‘John’ is linked to the noun ‘baker’)
• He seems nice. (The subject ‘he’ is linked to the adjective ‘nice’)
• The stew smells good. (The subject ‘the stew’ is linked to the adjective
  ‘good’).

Question 15

To be, to have, to do are…

Answer 15

• Three of the most common verbs in the English language
• Can be used in different functions suich as: Main verb, auxiliary verbs, copula verb (only ‘be’)
• These verbs are irregular