Verbs (A2) Flashcards

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6 main types of verb

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Stative
Dynamic
Transitive 
Intransitive
Auxiliary 
Lexical
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What are verbs? What do they do?

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Essentially ‘doing’ words

Describe actions and states

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What are features of stative verbs?

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Describe states of being or processes
No obvious actions
Not normally used as commands
Don’t usually occur after the verb “to be” + ‘ing’ ending

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Examples of stative verbs

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To know
To believe
To remember 
To realise
To suppose
To appear
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What are dynamic verbs?

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Express lots of different kinds of actions

Can be used as commands

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Types of actions that dynamic verbs refer to and examples: (3)

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Physical (jump)
Mental (think)
Perceptual (see)

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What is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?

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Transitive: have to be followed by object receiving the action
Intransitive: don’t need to be followed by the object to make sense

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Example of a transitive verb in context:

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I carried the baby

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Example of an intransitive verb:

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The child cried

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What do intransitive verbs describe?

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Either:
Position (to sit, to lie)
Or Motion (to run, to go)

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Sometimes a verb can be transitive and intransitive depending on the context. Give an example

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I am eating (I)

I am eating cake (t)

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How can you tell if a word is a verb?

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Add an ‘ing’ ending to see if it still makes sense

By placing the word after ‘I’ or ‘we’

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What 5 different forms (including base) do regular and irregular verbs come in?

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base
infinitive (to+base)
3 p s present
Past tense and past participle
Present participle
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Which two forms are the same in regular verbs, but different in irregular?

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Past tense and Past participle

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What is the regular rule of the infinitive

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to + verb

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What is the regular rule of 3 p s present

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’s’ ending

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What is the regular rule of the past tense and past participle

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‘ed’ ending

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What is the regular rule for the present particple

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‘ing’ ending

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What are features of irregular verbs?

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Have 5 separate forms (not including base)

Don’t conform to regular rules of verbs

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What is the general rule of irregular verbs and the past participle?

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Formed like:

have + verb + irregular ending

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What are lexical verbs for?

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Used to express meaning in verb phrases

e.g. the boy RAN to school

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What are auxiliary verbs?

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Additional verbs used to ‘aid’ the main verb in the sentence or clause
(Also known as helper verbs)

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Give an example of an auxiliary verb

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I have finished my dinner
“Have” is the auxiliary verb
“Finished” is the main verb

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What are auxiliary verbs used for?

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To differentiate between:
time (tense)
questions
negatives
add emphasis
give information
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What are the primary verbs?
to be to have to do
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What are primary verbs sometimes used as?
Auxiliary verbs
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What are modal verbs?
Another type of auxiliary verb
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What are modal verbs used for?
To indicate modality: | likelihood, ability, permission and obligation
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9 examples of modal verbs
``` can could may might must shall should will would ```