English 9 3rdq

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  • Verbs are one of the most important parts of the sentence
  • Verbs tells subjects actions, events, or state of being
  • Verbs can always be found in the predicate of a sentence
  • Verbs are words used to express an action, a condition or a state of being
  • Action verb is a type of verb that shows action. I tells what subject does. Action can either be physical or mental.
  • Physical Action example is "The farmer feeds the chicken"
  • Mental action example: "He likes to feed the chicken"
  • Present verbs are action verbs that describes an action that is happening now
  • Past verbs are action which happened some time ago
  • Future verbs are actions which are going to happen
  • Linking verbs links its subject to a word in the predicate
  • Helping verb helps a main verb express action or precise shade of meaning
  • combination of one or more helping verbs is called verb phrase
  • Transitive verbs has a direct object
  • Intransitive verbs are action verbs that do not have a direct object
  • linking verbs are always intrasitive
  • Intransitive verbs never answers the question "Who" or "What"