Verbs Flashcards
Transitive
Have to be followed by an object to complete their meaning
I carried the baby
They found the lost ring
Intransitive
Don’t need to be followed by object the make sense
To sit
To lie
To go
How can you tell if a word is a verb?
By adding an -ing ending
By placing it after I or we
Lexical
Express the meaning in a verb phrase
The boy RAN to school
Auxiliary
Used to construct different timescales, questions and negative to add emphasis or give info about mood or attitude of speaker/writer
To be To have To do I have gone The girl has swum
Irregular
Do not form the past tense by adding -ed
Catch-caught
Freeze-froze
Hear-heard
Aspect
Describes the timescale of the verb
-perfect and the perfective
Finite verbs
Change their form to show contrasts of number, tense and person
She LIVES in… She previously LIVED in…
Non finite
Never change their form
Is
Had
Dynamic
Express a wide range of actions which may be physical-jump
Mental-think
Perceptual-see
To buy - buying