Verbs Flashcards

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Transitive

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Have to be followed by an object to complete their meaning
I carried the baby
They found the lost ring

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Intransitive

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Don’t need to be followed by object the make sense
To sit
To lie
To go

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How can you tell if a word is a verb?

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By adding an -ing ending

By placing it after I or we

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Lexical

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Express the meaning in a verb phrase

The boy RAN to school

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Auxiliary

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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
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Irregular

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Do not form the past tense by adding -ed
Catch-caught
Freeze-froze
Hear-heard

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Aspect

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Describes the timescale of the verb

-perfect and the perfective

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Finite verbs

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Change their form to show contrasts of number, tense and person
She LIVES in… She previously LIVED in…

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Non finite

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Never change their form
Is
Had

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Dynamic

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Express a wide range of actions which may be physical-jump
Mental-think
Perceptual-see

To buy - buying

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