Verbs

TRANSITIVE

INTRANSITIVE

The transitive verbs are those which need a direct object. This is that immediately after the verb you have a person that receives the action.

All the mothers love their children.

The child broke the plate.

We are watching a movie.

The intransitive verbs are the ones which cannot accept a direct object. This is, they need a preposition or a linking word to connect the verb with the object.

The sound of the choir carried through the cathedral.

The kids are playing with the ball.

The train from Montreal arrived four hours late.

PARTICIPLES

IRREGULAR

They are divided into 2 forms: Present and Past.

They have 3 different functions:

• Verbs: Accompanied with an auxiliary verb.

I was drinking a bottle of water.

You have done what you were asked.

• Adjectives: Giving a characteristic of the noun.

The Avengers movie is amazing!

Everybody felt tired after the exercise.

• Noun: (Only Present Participle) Being the subject or object of the verb, in this case is called GERUND.

Drinking coffee keeps you awake.

He stopped smoking last year.

In the case of the irregular verbs we don't have a specific structure. But we can check some situations that are a constant.

• Verbs that are the same:

Hit-Hit-Hit Cut-Cut-Cut Let-Let-Let

• Verbs that have a different termination:

Send-Sent-Sent Hear-Heard-Heard

• Verbs that change completely:

Buy-Bought-Bought Eat-Ate-Eaten

AUXILIARIES

VERBS

The Verbs

REGULAR

The verbs that "help" us to make a sentence in a specific tense are consider auxiliaries.

The most common auxiliary verbs (used in all their forms)are:

• DO: I don't understand what is your problem.
• BE: Shannon was studying French the last semester.
• HAVE: Mark has played guitar since 3 years ago.

The pronunciation of the “-ed” termination in the regular verb will change according with the verb:

• Voiceless sound: Termination -p, -k, -s, -ch, -f, -x, -sh pronounce “-ed” as /t/

Asked Brushed Cooked

• Voiced sound: Termination “-l, -v, -n, -m, -r, -b, -g, -w, -y, -z, and vowels” pronounce “-ed” as /d/

Answered Cleaned Filled

• Termination “-d, -t” pronounce “-ed” as /id/

Accepted Graduated Invited

They are clasified according to:

• Form
• Regular
• Irregular
• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Participles
• Auxiliaries
• Modals
• Phrasal

MODALS

FORM

They give more information about the function of the main verb. They can be also consider as AUXILIARIES.

Classified in:

• Real: Can, Will, May.
• Unreal: Could, Would, Might.
• Recommendation: Should, Ought to, Had better.
• Obligation: Must, Have to, Shall.

• Infinitive: "TO" + "verb" to run, to love, to study, to do, to ask.
• Simple: "Bare infinitive" learn, speak, arrive, be, listen.
• Simple Present: dance, cleans, hope, thinks, plays.
• Simple Past: bought, needed, worked, rained.
• Past Participle: brought, stayed, painted, watched.
• Present Participle: "Gerund" getting, swimming, riding, writing, teaching.

PHRASAL

The combination of a verb and a preposition, that most of the times changes the sense or the meaning of the original verb.

• Work out: Making something work/Do exercise.
• Run out of: When the supplies are over .
• Go with: Matching colors