Different types of verbs
A verb that is used for action. An action verb.
What is a physical verb?
Verbs that can be recognized because they express a state rather than an action.
What is a stative verb?
We traveled to London.
Traveled
What is an example of an intransitive verb?
Do you believe everything people tell you
Believe
What is an example of a mental verb?
Verbs that have meanings that are related to concepts such as discovering, understanding, etc.
What are mental verbs?
Auxiliary verbs that are used to express abilities, possibilities, permissions, and obligations.
What is a modal verb?
She thinks about food all day long.
Thinks
What is an example of an action verb?
They sold the tickets to the musical
sold
What is a transitive verb?
Verbs that describe conditions or situations that exist.
What are linking verbs?
or
What are states of being verbs?
Verbs that aren't a single word. Instead, they are combinations of words that are used together to take on a different meaning than that of the original verb.
What is a phrasal verb?
I am a student
What is an example of a state of being/linking verb?
Ms.Lahbil disagrees with your choice of not wearing a tie
disagrees
Verbs that display or express doable activities that relate or affect someone or something else.
What are transitive verbs?
Verbs that don’t take on the regular spelling patterns of past simple and past participle verbs.
What are irregular verbs?
Let's run to the end of the street and back
run
What is an example of a physical verb?
Patrica should be doing her homework
should
What is an example of a modal verb?
Verbs that are action verbs and that always express doable activities. They are different from _________ verbs because there is no direct object following
What are intransitive verbs?
Verbs that are also known as helping verbs and are used together with a main verb to show the verb’s tense or to form a question or negative.
What are auxiliary verbs?
I will go home in the morning.
will
What is an example of an auxiliary verb?
She sees a silhouette shaped like a man in the window
She saw a silhouette shaped like a man in the window
sees/sawWhat is an example of an irregular verb?