Verbs And Verb Phrases

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

Tells what the subject is or what it does

Question 2

What is a Simple Predicate?

Answer 2

Verb used to provide the action or state

Question 3

What are Regular Verbs?

Answer 3

Verbs that form their past participle by adding -d, -ed, -t to the present form

Question 4

What are Irregular Verbs?

Answer 4

Verb that have no pattern to form their past and past participles

Question 5

What are the four principal parts of regular and irregular verbs?

Answer 5

Present, Past, Present Participle, Past Participle

Question 6

How do you fuse the PRESENT part to form the FUTURE tense?

Answer 6

Present + will/shall = future tense

will swim, will dance

Question 7

How do you use the PAST part to form the SIMPLE PAST tense?

Answer 7

It is used by itself

lost,shook

Question 8

How do you use the PRESENT PARTICIPLE to form PRESENT and PAST PERFECT tenses?

Answer 8

Past participle + have, has, or had = past/present perfect tense

Question 9

How do you use the PAST PARTICIPLE to form the PASSIVE VOICE?

Answer 9

Past participle + is/was/has = past/present perfect tense

Question 10

What are auxillaries?

Answer 10

Words connected with principal parts of a verb to tell tense