VERBS

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

A verb is a word that signifies an action, condition/state of being, or process.

Question 2

What are the two basic types of verbs in the English language?

Answer 2

• Lexical Verbs
• Auxiliary Verbs

Question 3

What are lexical verbs?

Answer 3

Verbs that convey the full meaning in a sentence and can stand alone.

Question 4

What are auxiliary verbs?

Answer 4

Helping verbs that derive their content from lexical verbs and cannot stand alone.

Question 5

Name the primary auxiliary verbs.

Answer 5

• Be (is, are, was, were, been)
• Have (has, had)
• Do (does, did)

Question 6

What are modal auxiliary verbs used for?

Answer 6

To indicate modalities such as ability, likelihood, permission, obligation, request, capacity, and suggestion.

Question 7

List the modal auxiliary verbs in the English language.

Answer 7

• can
• could
• may
• might
• must
• ought
• shall
• should
• will
• would

Question 8

What is a regular verb?

Answer 8

A verb that forms its tenses by adding the suffixes -d or -ed.

Question 9

What is an irregular verb?

Answer 9

A verb that has a different set of rules for conjugation and is unpredictable in its inflections.

Question 10

What defines transitive verbs?

Answer 10

Verbs that transfer the action of the subject to an object.

Question 11

What are monotransitive verbs?

Answer 11

Transitive verbs that take on a single object.

Question 12

What are ditransitive verbs?

Answer 12

Transitive verbs that take on two objects or an object and an indirect object.

Question 13

Define intransitive verbs.

Answer 13

Verbs that do not take on any objects but can be followed by an adverb.

Question 14

What are linking verbs?

Answer 14

Verbs that connect the subject to its predicate noun or adjective.

Question 15

What are finite verbs?

Answer 15

Verbs that are limited to number and person inflections in conjugation.

Question 16

What are non-finite verbs?

Answer 16

Verbs that have no restrictions to person and number, are not marked for tense, and can only function in dependent clauses.

Question 17

What are the three forms of non-finite verbs?

Answer 17

• Infinitives
• Participials
• Gerunds

Question 18

What does aspect in verbs indicate?

Answer 18

It states if the action expressed by the verb has been completed or is incomplete/ongoing.

Question 19

What are the two types of tenses in English based on descriptive linguistics?

Answer 19

• The Simple Present Tense
• The Simple Past Tense

Question 20

What is the simple present tense used for?

Answer 20

To describe actions, states, or events happening during the discussion.

Question 21

What is the simple past tense used for?

Answer 21

To describe an action that has happened before the present.

Question 22

Define tense.

Answer 22

The grammatical concept that indicates the time of action or event.

Question 23

What does the simple or zero aspect state?

Answer 23

That an action or state of being occurs without relating to the flow of time.

Question 24

What is the progressive aspect?

Answer 24

It shows that the action expressed by the verb is ongoing/incomplete.

Question 25

What is the perfect aspect?

Answer 25

It views the action as having been completed before another point in time.

Question 26

What is the perfect-progressive aspect?

Answer 26

It combines ongoing action that has been completed up to a certain point in time.

Question 27

What does voice in verbs indicate?

Answer 27

Whether the subject is the doer or the receiver of the action.

Question 28

What are the three moods in the English language?

Answer 28

• Indicative mood
• Imperative mood
• Subjunctive mood

Question 29

What is concord/agreement in verbs?

Answer 29

Modification of verbs to agree with their subjects in terms of person and number.

Question 30

What is concord in grammar?

Answer 30

The way a word has a form appropriate to the number or gender of the noun or pronoun it relates to

It is a fundamental aspect of grammatical agreement in sentences.

Question 31

What does grammatical concord ensure?

Answer 31

Agreement between the verb and its subject in terms of number and person

This means that singular subjects must have singular verbs, and plural subjects must have plural verbs.

Question 32

Provide an example of singular subject-verb agreement.

Answer 32

The dog barks

‘The dog’ is a singular subject and ‘barks’ is the singular verb.

Question 33

Provide an example of plural subject-verb agreement.

Answer 33

The dogs bark

‘The dogs’ is a plural subject and ‘bark’ is the plural verb.

Question 34

Fill in the blank: If the subject of a sentence is plural, the verb must be _______.

Answer 34

plural

Question 35

Fill in the blank: The word concord comes from the _______ word for agreement.

Answer 35

Latin

Question 36

What are the two absolutely necessary parts of speech in a sentence?

Answer 36

The verb and the subject

These are essential for constructing meaningful sentences in English.

Question 37

What is subject-verb concord?

Answer 37

When the subject of a sentence and the verb of a sentence agree

This means singular subjects require singular verbs, and plural subjects require plural verbs.

Question 38

True or False: Concord is only about the relationship between adjectives and nouns.

Answer 38

False

Concord primarily concerns the relationship between subjects and verbs.

Question 39

What happens if there is a lack of concord in a sentence?

Answer 39

The sentence won’t sound right

Grammatical concord is essential for clarity and understanding in communication.

Question 40

Provide an example of a singular subject with a singular verb.

Answer 40

The page is torn

‘The page’ is singular and ‘is’ is the singular verb.

Question 41

Provide an example of a plural subject with a plural verb.

Answer 41

The pages are torn

‘The pages’ is plural and ‘are’ is the plural verb.