ELS106 Verbs

• To identify types of verbs

• To identify forms of verbs

• Lexical (main) Verbs - Action & Linking Verbs

• Auxiliary (helping) Verbs - Auxiliary & Modal auxiliary verbs

• Physical activities e.g. drink, jump, hit

• Mental activities e.g. love, hate, wonder

• A linking verb is used to introduce a fact, to re-identify or to describe its subject.

  
  

• Be-verbs e.g. The boy is sick.

• Non-action verbs e.g. The food smells bad.

• An auxiliary verb is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning.

  
  

• Verb to-be e.g. is, are, am, was, were

• Verb to-have i.e. has, have, had

• Verb to-do i.e. do, does, did

• Modal auxiliary e.g. can, could, must

• Shall VS Will

• Can VS Could

• Will VS Would

• Should VS Ought to

• May VS Might

• Finite VS Non-finite

• Infinitive VS To-infinitive

• Transitive VS Intransitive

• Base forms & participles

• Affirmative, Negative & Interrogative

• Subject-verb Agreement

These are not mine.

Did she do the job perfectly? OR How did she do the job?

Have they moved to a new house?

She did not bake a cake.

Did she bake a cake? OR What did she bake?

• Singular Subject + Singular Verb (+s)

• Plural Subject + Plural Verb (-s)

• Anomalies: Uncountable nouns / Collective nouns / Noun phrases

Gerunds VS To-infinitives

• Can take the place of a noun in a sentence.

• Its usage can affect meaning e.g.

• I stopped to listen to Kara's ideas. VS I stopped listening to Kara's ideas.

• Read more: https://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/english-language/gerunds/

Types & Functions of Adverbs