1 Right Forms of Verb

Classification of verb

Bare infinitive
Infinitive
To infinitive

present
Non-Finite verb
Participle past

perfect
Gerund/ verbal
Noun

Transitive verb
(Action verb)
Verb

Intransitive Verb
Principle verb
(Action verb)

Linking verb/
copular verb (Non-
action)

Finite verb
To Be

Primary Auxiliary To Have

To Do

Auxiliary verb Modal Auxiliary

Semi-Modal
Auxiliary

Causative verb •(Have, Get, Help, Make, Let) fell, feed, teach, inform, remind, raise, show, lay etc.

Cognative verb •Ex. I slept a sound sleep. He ran a race. I dreamt a beautiful dream .

Emphatic verb •EX. I do help you. He does love you.

Impersonal verb •Ex. It snows in the winter. It rains in the morning

Inversion of verb •EX. seldom could she understand her fault, while taking to others. ( seldom, rarely, never, hardly)

Non-conclusive verb •( sense: see, hear, feel, taste, smell, sound) ( Emotion: admire , adore, appreciate,like, love,hate,)

Group verb/ phrasal verb •( verb +preposition/Adverb)

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 2 Right Forms of Verb
Marker
- Often, regularly, usually,
sometimes, always, very
often, generally, ordinarily,
normally, daily, every day
- universal truth (চিরন্তন সত্য)
Habitual fact (অভ্যাসগত্ কর্ম )
ইত্যাচি বু ঝায় ত্াহলে sentenceটি
Present Indefinite Tense হয়।
Now, at this moment
Just, just now, already, yet,
ever, recently, lately
‘Since’ বা ‘ for’ এর পষর সমে উষযেখ
থাকষে
Yesterday, Last (night, day),
once, ago, long since, long
ago, last week, last year, last
month, that day, day before
yesterday
Tomorrow, next day, next
week, next, coming days
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Right forms of verb
Tense
Present Indefinite Tense
Sub (3rd Person singular) +
verb (s/es)
Sub (others) + verb
**( verb এর শেষে y থাকষে এবং
y এর আষে consonant থাকষে y
উষে শেষে ies বসষব। শে সকে
verb এর শেষে ss, sh, ch, x, o
থাষক তাষের শেষে es শোে হে।
Present Continuous Tense
- (Sub+ am/is/are+ verb1+ing
+Extension)
Present Perfect Tense
- (Sub + has/have + verb3 +
Extension)
Present Perfect Continuous
Tense
- (Sub + have/has + been +
verb1+ing + Extension)
Past Indefinite Tense
- (Sub + verb2 + Extension)
Future Indefinite Tense
(Sub + shall/will + verb1 +
Ext.)
Example
- My uncle visits sea beach
regularly.
- People always like the good
persons.
- The earth moves round the
sun.
- A good student learns his
lessons regularly.
- She is singing a song now.
- We have already finished
our homework.
- Haven’t you solved the
problem yet?
- It has been raining for two
hours.
- We have been living in
Dhaka since 1986.
- Last week he went to
Dhaka.
- Once upon a time there was
a lazy king.
- We shall arrange a study
tour next month.
- Our English Teacher will
discuss Gerund in the next
lecture.
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Use of Verb1 + ing
To বেততত অন্ে Preposition/ possessive
pronoun (yours, mine, ours) + (Verb+ing)
Addicted to, accustomed to, get used to, be
used to, with a view to, look forward to,
devoted to, owing to, object to, admit to,
confessed to + (verb+ing)
While + (verb+ing)/ continuous tense
can’t/couldn’t help, mind, would you mind,
worth+ (verb+ing)
{NB: can’t/couldn’t but + verb1}
Advise, admit ,allow, appreciate, avoid,
Consider, deny, delay, dislike, enjoy,
Imagine, practice, permit, postpone, resist,
resent, reject, risk, resume, recall, resist,
report, suggest, start, stop, understand +
(verb+ing)
Sentence-এর শুরুষত subject- এর স্থষে verb
থাকলে (verb+ing)
USE of Verb1
Let, had rather, had better, would better, do
not, does not, need not, did not, did never +
verb1
To + verb1
(Advise, demand, prefer, require, ask, insist,
Propose, stipulate, command, Suggest, decree,
order, request, urge, move, recommend) +
that + sub + verb1(base form)
Don’t/doesn’t/didn’t + verb1
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- My brother is fond of visiting historical
places.
- Complete your homework before leaving
the class.
- I will wait for your coming.
- Avoid all your friends who are addicted to
smoking.
- I have minimized my daily expenses with a
view to buying a new motor bike.
- While walking in the garden, I saw a super
big python.
- All of my family member started shouting
while I was reading an interesting story.
- Would you mind giving me a pen?
- He could not help helping the poor.
{I cannot but cry to listen the story.}
- I don’t enjoy playing cricket.
- We will admit overeating.
- Manager considers paying tk 500 daily.
- Speaking is an art.
- I let the other boys use my skates.
- I had better go home by this time.
- We have come here to see his ailing mother.
- He insisted that I stay at home.
- The office requires that we complete our
work timely.
- I recommend that you wake up early.
They didn’t want him as their king.
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USE of To + Verb1
Agree, desire, hope, plan, attempt, claim, - He agreed to do
decide, demand, expect, intend, prepare, tend, - He desires to go to Disneyland.
fail, learn, pretend ,want ,wish, warn, - I want to work
threaten, refuse, need, forget, hesitate, offer, - He failed to understand
seem + To + Verb1
To express objective of a work (to+verb1) - They came here to dissolve the dispute.
(to answer why?)
(Nouns with To-infinitives) - They gave him an opportunity to escape.
Ability, attempt, chance, desire - He was annoyed by her refusal to answer.
failure, need, opportunity, refusal, wish - I have no desire to be rich.
- There is no need to shout.
(Adjectives with To-infinitives) -Unfortunately, I was unable to work for over
Able, unable, anxious, due, eager, keen, a week.
likely, unlikely, ready, prepared, willing, - I'm really tired. I'm ready to go to bed.
unwilling

USE of Verb3
Sentence এ To be/ Become/ Having/Get/ - The thief ran away having seen the
policeman.
Being/ Getting থাকষে + verb3
- The Principal desired the notice to be hung.
Have/ has/ had + verb3 - I have completed my assignment.
Passive voice always takes –v3 - This work was done by him.

If- CONDITIONAL
STRUCTURE EXAMPLE
Zero conditional If + Present Tense + Present - If we boil water, it turns
(Sub + verb1 + extension) Indefinite into vapor.
Present conditional If + Present Tense + Present - If he runs in the rain, he
(Sub + will/can/may + verb1 Conditional will catch cold.
+ extension)
Past conditional If + Past Indefinite Tense + - If I were a doctor, I could
(Sub + would/could/ might + Past Conditional treat the poor.
verb1 + extension
Past perfect conditional If + Past Perfect Tense + Past - If they had started earlier,
(Sub + would/could/ might + Perfect Conditional they would have reached
have+ verb3 + extension) there in time.
**Had + Sub + verb3 +… + - Had I been a teacher, I
Past Perfect Conditional would have talked the real
story to my students.

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USE of Singular & Plural Verb

Each, every, everyone, anyone, any, many a,
everybody, everything, anybody, nobody, no
one, nothing, anything, something, someone,
one of, either, neither ইতোতে verb singular হে
Time, Distance, Money, Place, Titles, Names
বুঝাষে subject শেখষত plural হষেও verb-এর
singular number হয়
EXAMPLE
- Every mother loves her child.
- One of the students is/was very brilliant.
- Each of the boys was present yesterday.
- Sixty cents is/was enough for him.
- Twenty miles is not a great distance now a
days.

Sentence ‘It’ দ্বারা শুরু হষে পরবততী verb - It is difficult to do.

- It is you who have done this
singular হে।
As well as, with, along, including, together, in -Rahim as well as his brothers is singing well.
addition to, accompanied by প্রভৃতত দ্বারা েু তি -The teacher along with their students was
busy that day.
Subject েু ক্ত থাকষে প্রথম Subject অন্ু োেী Verb
বলস ।
Sentence েতে Introductory ‘There’ দ্বারা শুরু হে - There was a big river beside our village.
- There were a lot of work left for us.
এবং তারপর singular number থাষক তাহষে
there- এর singular verb হে। আর েতে there-
এর পষর plural number থাষক তাহষে plural verb
হে।

SEQUENCE OF TENSE
EXAMPLE
As if/ As though Present Tense + As if + Past -The man speaks as though he
Indefinite Tense were a leader.

Past Indefinite + As if + Past - He talked as if he had

Perfect Tense known nothing.
Since Present Tense + Since + Past - Four years have passed
Indefinite Tense since I met you.

Past Indefinite + Since + Past - Four years passed since I

Perfect Tense had met you.
Before Past Perfect Tense + Before + - We had reached the station
Past Indefinite Tense before the train arrived.

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After Past Indefinite Tense + After
+ Past Perfect Tense
-It is time / It is high time/
fancy + (subject)+ Past
Indefinite Tense
*It is time / It is high time +
To+ Verb1
Lest …… Lest + sub + should/
might + verb1 + Extension
Sub + verb + so that/ in order
that + sub + can (present)/
could (past) + verb1 + Ext.
Sub + verb + so…. that + sub
+ can’t(present)/
couldn’t(past) + verb1 + Ext.
As soon as + Past indefinite +
Past indefinite
No sooner had +sub + verb3+
than + Past Indefinite Tense
Hardly had +sub+ verb3+
before + Past Indefinite Tense before the teacher ordered to
Scarcely had +
sub+verb3+when+ Past
Indefinite Tense
Would that Would that + Sub + could +
verb1 + Extension.
If only If only+ subject+were/could
be+ object
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- We reached the station after
the train had arrived.
- I fancy I flew among the
stars.
- It is time you changed your
bad habit.
-It is high time to read.
- Run faster lest you should
miss the bus.
- He will work hard lest he
should get fired.
- He reads attentively so that
he can stand first in the final
examination.
-He worked hard in order that
he could build his good
future.
- The weather was so freeze
that we couldn’t start our
mission.
- As soon as we started for
college, the rain started.
- No sooner had I reached
home than she left.
-Hardly had I finished writing
stop writing.
Scarcely had the police
reached when the man died.
Would that I could be a poet
like Nazrul.
- If only I were a poet.
- If only I could be a poet.
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Causative verb
Have/Get something Done Have/Get + something + v3 -He had/got his hair cut.
-I had/got the leak in the rope
fixed.
-Did you have/get the TV
repaired?
Have/ make/ help someone Have/ make/ help +someone - I will have my assistant call
Do something +v1 you with the details.
- I had the handyman fix the
leak.
- Don’t make her cry.
- The teacher make him work
hard.
-Could you help me carry my
bag?
- Milk can help you fall asleep.
Let someone/something Do Let+ someone/something - She let the kids stay up past
something +v1 midnight.
- I let the chicken burn in the
Oven.
Get someone TO DO Get+ someone+ To+ Do+ - I can never get my wife to cook
something something dinner.
- can you ever get your sisters to
stop fighting?

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 8 Right Forms of Verb

Exercise
1. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and
context.
Many events of great importance (a) —— (take) place during the last century.
Significant advances (b) —— (make) in the field of science and technology. Many
European colonies (c) —— (gain) independence. The movement for democracy (d) —
— (become) prominent in many parts of the world. Two world wars (e) —— (break)
out in this century. It also (f) —— (witness) the misuse of automatic energy. Two cities
of Japan were completely (g) —— (destroy) as a result of the dropping of atom bombs.
However, the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation (h) —— (become) a
momentous event. After a bloody war of nine months Bangladesh (i) —— (bear). Now
we (j) —— (hold) our heads high in the community of nations.

2. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and
context.
Parents (a) —— (be) blessings of God to us. When a child (b) —— (bear), their joys (c)
—— (know) no bounds. They (d) —— (start) (e) —— (think) (f) —— (nurse) and (g)
—— (bring) their children. They (h) —— (remain) safe under the custody of their
presents since birth. Parents never mind (i) —— (take) pains for the upbringing of their
off-spring. We (j) —— never (offend) our parents.

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