Grammar

Verbs

1. What are verbs?
2. Types of verbs
3. Objects and compliments
4. Auxiliary verbs
5. Questions and negative forms
6. Emphasis and contrast
7. Form(Infinitive forms, -ing, past tense and past participles, irregular verbs

What are verbs?

* Doing and action words (e.g. to describe actions: hit, paint).
* Express other meanings (e.g.existence: be, become, exist).
* Mental conditions and processes (e.g. believe, enjoy).
* Relationship (e.g. depend, determine).

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Types of verbs

* Main verbs:
* Don’t need to be accompanied by other verbs.
* Convey the key meaning in any group of verbs.
* Theexamples of verbs given in the coloured slides are main verbs. (is can also act as an auxiliary verb). Main verbs have at least 3 different forms. – e.g. : drive, drove, driving, driven are all formsof drive.
* Main verbs:
* Combine with other verbs: Auxiliary verbs or auxiliaries to form phrases of two or more words. (E.g. has been driving, may receive).
* Most common auxiliaryverbs are: am, is, are, was, were, being, been, have, has, had, do, does and did

Many verbs can function as both event and state verbs. E.g. smell and have, describing a sniffling action to detectodour and a physical activity.
(Event)
I always smell cooked meat to make sure it hasn’t gone off.
I have a shower in the mornings.
(State)
Change from describing something we do to describing...