Grammar - Verb 3

Question 1

What are the two key classes of verbs?

Answer 1

Main (lexical) verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Question 2

Main verbs express the meaning of a clause. They show …., ….. or …..

Answer 2

action
possession
States of being

Question 3

Auxiliary verbs add information to the main verb in order to refer to actual ….. or …. in the past or the present.

Answer 3

events

situations

Question 4

What are the primary auxiliary verbs that can also stand alone as the main verb of a clause?

Answer 4

Be, have, and do (and their corresponding conjugated forms)

Question 5

‘I think, therefore, I am’.

What type of words are think and am?

Answer 5

Main (lexical)

Question 6

‘Happy he who, like Ulysses, has completed a great journey’.

What type of word is has?

Answer 6

Auxiliary

Question 7

‘Nature does nothing uselessly’.

What type of word is does?

Answer 7

Primary auxiliary

Question 8

Modal auxiliary verbs help the …. …. to express a range of meanings, including possibility, probability, desirability, permission, requests, suggestions, instructions, wants, wishes, obligations, and necessity.

Answer 8

Main verb

Question 9

Helping verbs, helping verbs, there are …!

List the ones for ‘to be’?

Answer 9

23

be (am, are, is, was, were, being)

Question 10

Helping verbs, helping verbs, there are …!

List the ones for ‘to have’?

Answer 10

23

have (had, has, having)

Question 11

Helping verbs, helping verbs, there are …!

List the ones for ‘to do’?

Answer 11

do (did, does, doing)

Question 12

List the remaining auxiliary verbs bar to be, to have, and to do

Answer 12

can,
could,
may,
might,
must,
shall,
should,
will,
would

Question 13

To distinguish a full verb from an auxiliary verb, you can carry out the following test:

If the verb: ….
E.g. … Try with are….

Answer 13

allows subject-auxiliary inversion
and can take can take not in the negative form,

You are going to travel to London. –
Are you going to travel to London?
You are not going to travel to London.
= are is an an auxiliary verb

Question 14

The aspect of a verb expresses the status of an action or state, essentially whether it is …. (unknown), has been ….., or is still in …..

Answer 14

indefinite, completed, progress

Question 15

The aspect of a verb expresses the status of an ….. or ……, essentially whether it is indefinite (unknown), has been completed or is still in progress.

Answer 15

action or state

Question 16

The indefinite simple aspect merely indicates an …..

E.g What you seek is seeking you.

Answer 16

Action

Question 17

The progressive aspect indicates ….. …., past, present, or future

Answer 17

Continuing action

Question 18

The perfect aspect indicates that an action has been ….., or will be ….. at some point in the future.

Answer 18

Completed x2

Question 19

The perfect and progressive aspects can be ….

Answer 19

Combined

Question 20

A non-finite verb cannot stand alone as a main verb of a sentence. They are …

Answer 20

Infinitive, present (gerund) and past participles

Question 21

Copular verbs are …. verbs such as be, seem, feel, appear, remain, become, smell and look which joins a sentence to its complement.

Answer 21

linking

My pen is my harp and my lyre.

Question 22

Stative verbs are not used in …. forms as they show the state of the subject. So, don’t make the mistake of using stative verbs in …. tenses.

e.g. know, believe

Answer 22

continuous x2

Question 23

Dynamic verbs are verbs that typically denote an activity which is controlled by an active ‘doer’ or …..

e.g. run, move, work, play, and make

Answer 23

agent