Saturday, January 31, 2015

Verb


In English Grammar Verb is very important part. No English sentence can be made without verb. Verbs are simply TWO kinds- Auxiliary or Helping verbs and Main verbs.

Auxiliary or Helping Verbs: Those verbs are called Auxiliary verbs which are used to help main verbs. When following verbs are used as helping verbs, they do not have any meaning. They just help main verbs to express their (main verbs) perfect meaning according to tense.

                                To Be Verbs: Am, is, are, was, and were

                                To Have verbs: Have, Has and Had

                Conditional Verbs: Shall, Should, Will, Would, May, might, Can, could, Ought to, Going to and Need

                Before Main Verbs as Auxiliary: Do, Did and Does

Main Verbs: Those verbs are called main verbs which have their (Verbs) own meaning. An English Sentence must need a main verb. Sometime auxiliary verbs are used as main verbs.
                                Go, Come, See, Want, Eat, Ride, take, Do, Write, Read,
                                Hear, Talk, Drink, See, Sleep and Swim etc.

Examples and Uses of Verbs:
                       

He goes to school. (M.V)
He can do the sum. (A.V)
They take some food. (M.V)
I am going to School every day. (A.V)
You have won the prize. (M.V)
You have won the prize. (A.V)
She will dance today. (A.V)        
She will dance today. (M.V)


When Auxiliary or Helping Verbs Used as Main: When it appears that there is no verb excepting a helping verb in a sentence, then the helping verb is considered as main verb.

“I am a student.”  In this sentence am is only one verb. After am  there appears no other verbs. We understand that  am is not helping any verb. So am is a main verb because we know a sentence must have a main verb.
                                They are player. I have a car. She is a good girl.

Note: After Modal Auxiliaries, verbs must be in a Base form.
Base Form means a verb in present form and also not used s, es, ed etc.
                I can swim. She may go. It can be done. They must have some money.
                Be is the base form of am, is, are, was and were.
                Have is the base form of have, has, had.

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