General Verb Knowledge
A word that expresses ACTION or STATE OF BEING and is a necessary part of a sentence.
What is a VERB?
The verb in a sentence may consist of more than one word. The words that accompany the main verb are called __________, or helping, verbs.
What are auxiliary?
The past and past participle of this regular verb: serve.
What are served and served?
The formula for ANY perfect tense verb.
What is Perfect Tense = have + past participle
The formula for ANY progressive tense verb.
What is be + present participle?
The two categories of verbs.
What are Action and Linking?
The formula for a verb phrase.
What is AV (auxiliary verbs) + MV (main verbs)?
The past and past participle of this irregular verb: bite.
What are bit and bitten?
1st person singular - present perfect (walk)
What is "I have walked"?
1st person singular - present progressive (learn)
What is "I am learning"?
A verb expresses time - past, present, and future - by various _______
What are Tenses?
The number of main verbs in a verb phrase. And the number of auxiliaries in a verb phrase.
What are Only one main verb? and As many auxiliaries as are needed to complete the particular verb tense?
The definition of a REGULAR VERB.
What is forms its Simple Past by adding -ed to the Base?
3rd person plural - past perfect (drink)
What is "They had drunk"?
2nd person plural - future progressive (do)
What is "You will be doing"?
The difference between a TRANSITIVE and INTRANSITIVE verb.
What are transitive verbs have a direct object; intransitive verbs do not have a direct object?
The three simple verb tenses.
What are present, past, and future?
The verb that is considered IRREGULAR: walk, jump, laugh, ring, play, learn
What is Ring? Ring becomes rang in the past tense and has rung in past participle.
2nd person singular - future perfect (steal)
What is "You will have stolen"?
The person and tense for the following verb: We were going.
What is 1st person plural - past progressive?
The most common linking verb.
What is "to be" or verbs of being?
The difference between perfect and progressive verb tenses.
What is using had/have and ending in "ing"?
The past participle of these verbs: be, go, fly, see.
What are been, gone, flown, seen?
1st person plural - past perfect (have)
What is "We had had"?
The person and tense for the following verb: He is teaching.
What is 3rd person singular - present progressive?