The VERB

Verb: A verb is a word that says something about a person or thing

Eg: She is a doctor, He has a car,
 Other Ex: The boys play in the evening, They are students, The mechanic repaired the car.

‘be’ verb : It says something about the subject. It takes a complement to  complete the sentence.

Eg: Gopal is a lawyer (is : be verb ; a lawyer : complement), They are clerks (are: be verb; clerks : complement)

List of ‘be’ verbs: is, am, are, was, were.

Transitive verb : When the action passes over from the subject to the object, the verb is transitive.
Eg: He cut the tree (cut:transitive verb; tree: objective), She killed a rat(killed : transitive verb; rat:objective)

List of Transitive verbs: read, write, eat, kill, repair.

Intransitive verb : When the action does not pass over to anything else, the verb is intransitive verb.
Eg: He sits, They stand.

List of Intransitive verb: fly, walk come, go boark, cry.

Auxiliary verb :An auxiliary verb is a helping verb. It show tense and voice. It is used with a main verb. It is not used independently.

Eg: She has gone out(has: auxiliary verb; gone:main verb), they have met us(have: auxiliary verb;met(main verb)


List of Auxiliary verbs: is, am, are, was, were, do, does, did, have, has, had, will, would, shell, should, can, could, many, might, must, dare, need, ought, used to.


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