Types Of Verb

Verb is a word which shows action or state of being.

A verb is a most important  part of a sentence and it shows what the subject performs.

Examples:

All the underline words are verbs

He walks.

She writes.

Jon eats mangoes.

They play cricket. 

Types Of Verb

1. Action Verbs

Action verbs  are verbs that expresses actions. Most verbs are action verbs.

Examples:

He accepted the proposal.

She baked a cake.

She ran to the school.

 

2. Stative Verbs

Stative verbs often correspond about thoughts,feelings,emotions and opinions.They tell us about the actions that we can’t see, but exists anyway. They don’t state any visible action.

Examples:

Dislike, hate, like, love, prefer, want, wish, hear, look, see, seem, smell, taste.

I remember you.

Mother loves her baby.

I wish to go abroad.

3.Regular Verbs

Regular verbs are verbs whose past tense are formed by adding d or -ed to the end.

Examples:      

Walk                 Walked

Climb               Climbed

Decide             Decided

Describe          Described 

4. Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs are the verbs that change form in the past tense.

They do not need adding “d” or “ed” at the end to form past tense.

Examples:

Go           Went                Gone

Buy          Bought             Bought

Drink        Drank               Drunk 

5. Transitive Verbs

A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (noun or pronoun) to receive the action.

They “transfer” their action to another noun to make sentence meaningful and they don’t make sense without an object.

Examples:

Marry brought the clothes.

“Marry brought doesn’t make sense if we remove the direct object “clothes”.

We need a big ground.

“We need” doesn’t make sense if we remove the direct object “ground”.

Can I borrow your car? (Can I borrow doesn’t make sense without your car)

Teacher teaches a lesson.

“Teacher teaches” doesn’t make sense if we remove the direct object “lesson”. 

6. Intransitive Verbs

An intransitive verb is a verb that doesn't requires a direct object (noun or pronoun) to receive the action.They are meaning full sentences even without direct verb.

Examples:

He smiled at me.

“He smiled” makes sense if “at me” is removed.

We run in the ground.

“We run”makes sence if “in the ground is removed”.

The boy swims in the river.

“The boy swims”makes the sense if “in the river is removed”.

7. Linking Verbs

A linking verb is a verb which connects the subject of a sentence with a complement (i.e., a noun, pronoun, or adjective that describes the subject) such as am, is, are, and were.

Examples:

My favorite subject is English.

She looks beautiful.

I am going to market. 

9. Compound Verbs

A compound verb is defined as a verb that consists of multiple words combined  to form one individual word or phrase.

Examples:

The boy was reading a book.

The girl is singing loudly.

Ali writes down the letter.