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1. VERBS
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2. 1. Anand is a chess player. (state-position)
2. Anand is playing chess. (action)
3. Anand has skills in playing chess. (possession)
4. Anand wants to play chess. (intention)
In each of the sentences the verb tells in a different way
such as showing state, action, possession or intention etc.
Classification of Verbs:
Finite & Non Finite Verbs.
Principal or Main Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs & Modals
Transitive & Intransitive Verbs
Regular & Irregular
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3. A finite verb is a verb which has tenses and changes according to
person and number.
Eg. a. I go to school.
b. He goes to school.
c. He went to school.
d. You are going to school.
A Non-finite verb does not have tenses and does not change
according to person and number of the subject.
1.Iwant to play chess. (infinitives).
2.He likes swimming. (gerund)
3.Running fast, he fell down. (present participle)
4.Having completed his work, he took rest. (perfect participle).
5.Given a change, I can prove it. (Past participle)
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4. Auxiliary verbs are helping verbs that help the main verb. The
auxiliary verbs have no existence without a main verb.
1.Sehwag is playing cricket.
2.I have been riding a car.
3.The cat will have been killed by the dog.
Modals are special kind of auxiliary verbs. They are also called as
Anomalous Verbs or defective verbs. They are “shall, should, will,
would, must, can, could, may, might, ought (to), used (to), need,
and dare. These are used to express the ‘mood’. (obligation,
ability, duty, probability, necessity, courage) of the speaker.
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5. 1.It may rain. (probability)
2.I can do the work. (ability)
3.You need not wear uniform on Sundays. (necessity)
A verb that shows an action which passes over from the subject to
the object is Transitive Verb.
The word “transit” means to pass over.
a. The boy flies a kite.
Here ‘kite’ is the object of the verb ‘fly’.
Transitive verbs always take an object with them. In order to find
the object we ask the question ‘who’, ‘whom’, ‘what’.
Eg. What does the boy fly? (a kite)
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6. The verb that shows an action which does not pass over to an object
is called Intransitive Verb.
Eg. Birds fly in the sky.
Verbs showing state of being (position) and verbs of possession are
always intransitive.
Eg. India is my country.
We have a big house.
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7. Regular (or weak) verbs form the past tense and past participle by
adding ‘d’, ‘ed’ or ‘t’ to the present.
V1 V2 V3
love loved loved
walk walked walked
spend spent spent.
Irregular (or strong) verbs form the past tense and past participle in
a different way.
V1 V2 V3
write wrote written
come came come
cut cut cut
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