Types Of Verbs

Question 1

Action verb

Answer 1

Refers to physical actions that are performed with bodies or objects

(E.g run)

Question 2

Stative verb

Answer 2

Describes things like qualities, states of existence, opinions, beliefs, and emotions

(E.g love,want,own)

Question 3

Transitive verb

Answer 3

A verb that is accompanied by a direct object in a sentence

(Before the noun)

Question 4

Intransitive Verb

Answer 4

A verb that is not used with a direct object

(E.g airplanes fly)

Question 5

Linking verb

Answer 5

Stative verbs that link a subject with a subject complement

(E.g be,become,seem)

Question 6

Auxillary/Helping verb

Answer 6

Works with other verbs to change the meaning of a sentence

(E.g be,have)

Question 7

Modal verbs

Answer 7

Subgroup of helping verbs that are used to give a sentence a specific mood can express concepts such as ability, necessity, possibility, or permission

(E.g can,may,might)

Question 8

Regular verb

Answer 8

past tense form and past participle ends in -ed, -d, or the verb is a -t variant verb

Question 9

Irregular verb

Answer 9

Past tense and past participle form doesn’t end in -ed, -d, and doesn’t use the –t variant

(E.g knew)

Question 10

Phrasal verb

Answer 10

Combinations of a verb with prepositions and/or adverbs that have a different meaning from the individual words used to form them

Question 11

Infinitive verb

Answer 11

The base form of the verb

(E.g to play,to see,to fight)