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You will meet different types of verbs as you learn English grammar. Some
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Grammar Overview This page tells you...

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1. the names of different kinds of verbs and
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2. their relationship to each other.
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The Verb's Role in a Sentence

Lessons
Grammar Lessons Verbs can be divided according to the job they do in a sentence. The
grammar-expert's way of saying this is that we can divide verbs syntactically.
Parts of Speech
These are the divisions and sub-divisions according to syntax:
About Nouns

Types of Nouns finite verbs

transitive verbs
About Verbs intransitive verbs
linking Verbs
Types of Verbs

Pronouns non-finite verbs (also called verbals)

infinitives
Verbals gerunds
The World of participles (Understanding What is a participle?)
present participle
Sentences
past participle
Sentence Parts perfect participle

Clauses helping verbs (auxiliaries)

Sentence Structure
primary auxiliaries
modal auxiliaries

Exercises
Formation of the Verb-Word
Grammar Exercise

Grammar Quiz We know that verbs are words, just like any other part of speech. The words that
represent the verbs follow different patterns of spelling or sound.
Special Section Verbs can, therefore, be divided into various kinds depending upon how they
CBSE Exam are formed. Grammarians would call this a morphological division.
Preparation regular verbs
Site Map irregular verbs
compound verbs
Contact phrasal verbs

Verbs According to Meaning

I have earlier answered the question: What is a verb? There I used this division
of verbs according to meaning to explain what a verb is.
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Those who know grammar well call this division of verbs a semantic
classification.

action words (action verbs)

being
having

Summing Up...
Now you know the names of different verbs and how they are classified. We can
classify them in three
ways...

1. according to their role in a sentence (i.e. syntactically),

2. or based on their formation (morphologically),
3. or their meaning (semantically).

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