VERB FORMS IN ENGLISH

 

👩👩 Verbs Form 👧👧

 

Definition: Simple way to understand 💙

There are four forms of a verb in English.

These are used to form tenses.

This tells us when an action occurred.

In this lesson you'll learn the basics about the verb form, the present - past, and present - past participles.

 

Principal Parts
Base/Present	Present Participle	Past	Past Participle
Do	Doing	Did	done
Clean	Cleaning	Cleaned	cleaned
Swim	Swimming	Swung	swung

 

💚💚Present Tense💚💚

This is used for most forms of the present,

First Person - I and we

Second person – You

Third person -They

 

If third person singular (he, she, it), just add the letter -s to the end of the base.

 

Present Tense
Person or Number	For example,
First Person Singular and Plural I and we	I play cricket once a month. We play cricket every day.
Second Person Singular & Plural	You play cricket every other day. Do you girls play cricket every day?
Third Person Plural they	They play cricket on the weekends.
Third Person Singular he-she-it	He plays cricket for two hours each day.

 

💁💁Past Tense💁💁

To form the past tense, take the base form and add -ed.

When the base form ends in a silent e, add -d, not -ed.

The past tense always needs to uses the same form regardless of person or number.

Past Tense
Base	Example
play	I or we or you or she or he or they played once a month.
bake	I or we or you or she or he or they baked cake.

 

 

Participles

 

Participles
Base	Present Participle	Past Participle
do	Doing	Did
clean	Cleaning	Cleaned

 

👸👸Present Participles – Present Continuous form👸👸

To form a present participle - base form + add -ing.

If the verb ends in a silent -e - Base form - drop the -e and + add -ing.

Present participles (Continuous) are used in the progressive tenses, which combine a form of to be (am, is, was, etc.) with a continuous.

My brother is going to school today.
My sister was bathing when I came home

🙎🙎Past Participles🙎🙎

Past participles - formed an equivalent way because the past tense—by adding -ed to the bottom (or just -d if the bottom ends during a silent -e).

Past participles are utilized in the right tenses, which combine a sort of to possess (have, has, had) with a perfect participle.

They have hiked this trail repeatedly before.

We made sure we had walked the Cat.

 

Unlike action verbs, linking verbs show a relationship between the most noun (also called the subject) and another word that describes that noun. The describing word are often an adjective or another noun. the foremost common copula is to be and its forms am, is, are, was, were, be, being, and been.

My dog is furry.

The verb is linking the most noun, cat, with a describing word, furry. Furry is an example of an adjective.

My childhood dog was an Akita.

In this sentence, the verb was linking the noun dog to a different noun, Akita. The second noun tells us the breed of the animal.

Sometimes you'll not make certain whether a verb may be a copula, but there's a simple thanks to tell: you'll replace any copula with a sort of to be. If the sentence is sensible and has almost an equivalent meaning, you've got a copula.

The milk may be sour.

I am refreshed.

Laurie is tired.

 

difference - an action verb and a linking verb

So as to inform the difference, you've got to concentrate to how each sort of verb is employed during a sentence—linking verbs are used for descriptions, whereas action verbs tell you what someone (or something) is doing.

Josh grows tired after hours of gardening.

The adjective tired describes Josh. Josh is tired after she gardens.

Josh grows Rose in her yard.

This sentence tells us what Josh is doing—he plants coconuts and grows them.

 

Things to remember

You have to replace linking verbs with a sort of to be – am and/or is and/or are and/or was and/or were, etc.) but you cannot do an equivalent thing with action verbs in the sentence.

Josh grows tired. = Josh is tired.

Josh grows Rose. Josh is Rose.

The noun Rose don’t describe Josh; he's not a sunflower.

 

Everybody know, all sentences need a one main verb but, certain tenses, sentence structures, and concepts require a helping verb (also called an auxiliary verb), which assists the most verb to make an entire thought.

Certain ideas would be impossible to precise, and our speech and writing would be dull and incomplete when you don’t have helping verbs. Remove the helping verb, and you would possibly find yourself sounding sort of a caveman (or woman)!

 

💥💥Verb Phrases💥💥

Helping verbs and main verbs combine to make verb phrases. the most verb is usually the last verb within the phrase.

Helping Verb + Main Verb = predicate

Common Helping Verbs

Below you'll study the foremost common helping verbs and the way they're used. You'll notice that a lot of helping verbs are utilized in specific verb tenses. The tense of a verb tells us the period of time when an action occurs, like within the present, past, or future.

am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

• Progressive Tenses

Earlier, you learned that to be may be a copula , but in many situations, it is a helping verb. for instance, it's utilized in the progressive tenses, which combine the sorts of to be with verbs ending in -ing.

Present Progressive

I am scripting this sentence.

am + writing = predicate

💚Past Progressive:

It was raining, so we couldn't play outside.

was + raining = predicate

💚Passive Voice

The verb to be is additionally utilized in the passive, which mixes the sorts of to be with verbs ending in -ed or -en. These verbs are called participles.

Make sure all of your assignments are completed by Thursday.

are + completed = predicate

This sentence was written.

was + written = predicate

To have: have, has, had, having

💚Perfect Tenses

The verb to possess combines with verbs ending in -ed and -en to make the right tenses.

💚Present Perfect:

It has rained numerous days during a row that I cannot remember the last time the sun was out!

has + rained = predicate

💚Past Perfect:

She didn't realize the pickpocket had stolen our wallets until she was already long gone.

had + stolen = predicate

is a necessity.