Verbs Flashcards
What are Verbs?
Action words.
What are Base Form Verbs?
Base Verbs that haven’t been modified to be fitted into a sentence.
What are some Past Tense Verbs?
Traveled, sang, cooked, ate, etc…
What are some Present Tense Verbs?
Go, eat, drink, declare, etc…
What are some Future Tense Verbs?
Will eat, will travel, will study, etc…
What is the Infinitive Form of a Verb?
A verb that follows “to.”
What are the -Ed and -Ing Participle Words?
All verbs that end with -ed or -ing.
What is a Finite Verb?
A verb in the past or present tense.
What are Nonfinite Verbs?
All verbs without tense.
What are the Helping Verbs?
“Is” and “was”
What are the 5 types of Auxiliary Verbs?
Passive, Progressive, Perfect, Modal, and Dummy.
What are “NICE” Auxiliary Verbs?
NICE Auxiliaries are used for Negation, Inversion, Code, and Emphases.
What are Semi-Auxiliaries?
Auxiliaries that are two or three word combos such as “be supposed to” or “get to.”
What is Verb Tense?
The marking of the time of an event.
What are the three main Tenses?
Past, Present, and Future.
