Verb and its types

Verb and its types.

Transitive verb. The word transitive often makes people think of transit, which leads to the mistaken assumption that the terms transitive and intransitive are just fancy ways of describing action and no action. But these terms have nothing to do with whether a verb is active or not. A better word to associate when you see transitive is transfer. A transitive verb needs to transfer its action to something or someone—an object. In essence, transitive means “to affect something else.”.

How to Identify a Transitive Verb. Transitive verbs are not just verbs that can take an object; they demand objects. Without an object to affect, the sentence that a transitive verb inhabits will not seem complete. Please bring coffee. In this sentence, the verb bring is transitive; its object is coffee, the thing that is being brought. Without an object of some kind, this verb cannot function. Please bring. Bring what, or who? The question begs itself because the meaning of bring demands it. Here are some more examples of transitive verbs and their objects. The girls carry water to their village. Juan threw the ball. Each of the verbs in these sentences have objects that complete the verbs’ actions. If the objects were taken out, the results would be illogical and questions would be raised in the mind of the reader;.

Intransitive verb. An intransitive verb An intransitive verb is the opposite of a transitive verb: it does not require an object to act upon. They jumped. The dog ran. She sang. A light was shining. None of these verbs require an object for the sentence to make sense, and all of them can end a sentence. Some imperative forms of verbs can even make comprehensible one-word sentences. Run! Sing! will make sense without one..

identification. He arrived arrived The leaf falls late. He arrived late the leaf falls There is is no 050 Object receiving the action..

Transitive or Intransitive? Some Verbs Can Be Both.

The auxiliary system: Finite and non-finite Verbs.

Main verb. is a word which denotes the action of the subject. It can range from any action to happening or event. E.g. i) Xavier is going to school. ii) Mohan was sleeping..

Auxiliary verb. Auxiliary verb: It supplements the main verb or supports the main verb. It comes into force in the absence of a main verb or sometimes supports the main verb. There are a limited number (twenty eight) of auxiliary verbs. They are as follows: i) Be verbs: is, am, are, do, did, done, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had and ii) Modal verbs: may, might, shall, should, will, would, can, could, Must, ought, need, dare, ought, used. A modal is an auxiliary verb used to express the mood of another verb, or the mode of action denoted by the main verb. Modals include the auxiliary verbs shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, might, must, ought, need, dare. Some simple rules need to be remember in order to use modals correctly..

Modals and its uses:. Shall: Simple future action Will: Promise, intention, threat, command, determination Would: Past form of ‘will’, express request, express wish, hypothetical condition. Should: Past form of ‘shall’, express suggestion Must: Express obligation Ought: Express obligation Dare: Used as a principle verb to mean challenge, to express venture.

Finite Verb. When the verb agrees with the Subject in number and person it is known as finite verb. This is otherwise known as the agreement of the verb with the subject. The verb shows the tense and number. A sentence that has a singular subject is accompanied by a singular verb. On the other hand, a sentence that has a plural subject should have a plural verb. The complex subject of the sentence is followed by a verb that agrees with the main noun in the subject. e.g. The dog is barking (singular subject). Ten dogs are barking (plural subject)..

rules. There are some nouns that can be treated as both singular and plural forms. E.g. The government has (have) announced its (their) new employment scheme. There are various verbs that can be both singular and plural are school, class, department, team, university, press, public, crowd, firm, committee, community, family, generation, electorate, group, jury, orchestra, and the names of the specific organizations such as the Reserve Bank of India, Infosys, Maruti, and BBC. We use a singular verb if you see an institution or organization as a whole unit and plural verb if you see it as a collection of individuals There is not much difference in meaning, although in formal writing, use of singular verb is more common. But in some contexts, a plural form of the verb is needed..

Non-finite Verbs. When the verb doesn’t need to agree with number and person of the subject, it is known as non-finite verb. A non-finite verb has no subject, tense or number. They can be of 3 types: to + infinitive, participle (present and past) and gerund (noun-verb).

Infinitive. Infinitive: An infinitive is a kind of noun with some features of the verb, especially that of taking an object (when the verb is transitive). An infinitive verb is otherwise known verb-noun. E.g. They always find fault with me…Finite They always try to find fault with me…Infinitive. Though, most of the times ‘to’ is used with the infinitive, it is not an essential part or sign of it. An infinitive verb is not limited by person and number as a verb that has a subject and is called the verb infinitive or simply the infinitive. E.g. To err is human…Noun is the subject of the verb. I lived in Germany to improve my German. Birds love to sing. To do our duty is Divine..

Participle: Present/Past. Let’s consider the following sentences. Rolling stone doesn’t catch moss. Barking dog seldom bites. iii) Hearing the noise the boy woke up. In the above sentences the words in the +ing form seems as verbs, but are not verbs they are participles. They are set in the present tense, but are not tensed verb in the present tense. i) He was deceived by his friends….Finite verb. Deceived by his friends, he lost hope of life….Participle verb in the +ed form. This type of participle verbs are set in the past but not tensed verb in the past tense. Driven by hunger, he stole a piece of bread..

Gerund. Any verb with the +ing form used as a subject of a verb and acting like a verb-noun is called a gerund. E.g. Meditating is her favorite kind of relaxation. In the given sentence, the meditating is formed by adding –ing to the verb meditate. Hence, we understand that any verb that ends in –ing and has the force of noun and verb is known as a Gerund. In other words, when the verb is used as a a subject of a verb and becomes a noun it is known as a Verb-noun/ gerund. E.g. Smoking is bad for health. The child was tired of swimming. We were stopped from watching the match..

rules. Uses of Gerund: A gerund being a verb-noun may be used as the following: Subject of a verb.(Reading is a good habit.) Object of a transitive verb. (Girls love making dolls.) Object of a preposition. (He is fond of singing.) Complement of a verb. (What is most detested is drinking.).

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