📄️ Verbs
Verbs are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, adjectives and adverbs. A verb refers to an action, event or state.
📄️ Verbs: basic forms
Verbs: the three basic forms
📄️ Verbs: formation
Identifying verbs
📄️ Verbs: types
Main verbs
📄️ Verbs: multi-word verbs
Multi-word verbs are verbs which consist of a verb and one or two particles or prepositions (e.g. up, over, in, down). There are three types of multi-word verbs: phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Sometimes, the name ‘phrasal verb’ is used to refer to all three types.
📄️ Verb phrases
A verb phrase consists of a main verb alone, or a main verb plus any modal and/or auxiliary verbs. The main verb always comes last in the verb phrase:
📄️ Verbs and verb phrases: typical errors
We always need an e in the \-ed form (past simple and \-ed form) of regular verbs:
📄️ Finite and non-finite verbs
Finite verb forms show tense, person and number (I go, she goes, we went, etc.):
📄️ Table of irregular verbs
Note that be has several irregular forms: