Today is our topic of discussion – Verb and kinds
Verb and kinds
Definition of verb
A verb refers to an action or being. Without a verb there cannot be any sentence. The most interesting thing is that only one verb can make a complete meaningful sentence. As-
Go.
Eat.
Come.
All of them are the examples of verb. As –
She is going to school.
In a sentence there is a main verb and sometimes one or more helping verbs. Going is the main verb in the above mentioned sentence while is is the helping or auxiliary verb. Verbs also take different forms to express tense.
The young boy brought me a very soft chair from his house, and then he quickly disappeared.
Oh my God!
In this sentence, brought and disappeared refer to actions and they indicate about incidents which happened in the past. These parts of speech are called verb.
Classification of verbs
There are different kinds of verbs. They are –
Action verbs:
Action verbs refers to action (go, eat, write, etc.) or possession (have, own, etc.). As –
I eat rice.
I have a black fountain pen.
Here, eat and have are the examples of action verb. Action verbs can be either transitive or intransitive.
Transitive verbs:
A transitive verb refers to a verb that accepts one or more objects. As – Ritu eats rice. Here, the verb is eats. ‘Rice’ is the object receiving the verb eats action. Therefore, eats is a transitive verb. Transitive verbs can have more than one object . As-
Abdul gave Rajib the pencil.
Here, the verb is gave. The direct object is the pencil. (What did he give? – The pencil.) The indirect object is Rajib. (To whom did he give it? – To Rajib.)
Intransitive verbs:
An intransitive verb never takes a direct or indirect object. As –
Ritu goes slowly to her school.
Here, the verb is goes. The phrase ‘slowly to her school’ modifies the verb, but no object receives the action.
Note: If “what” or “whom’ is asked to the verb and an answer or more than one answer comes, we can find out that the verb has one or more than one object. Like in the first sentence, we get the answer of what.
Ritu eats rice.
What does she eat? The answer is ‘rice’. That is mono transitive verb. Abdul gave Rajib the pencil.
What does Abdul give? – A pencil. Whom does he give the pencil? – To Rajib.
Two answers of ‘what’ and ‘whom are found. This is an example of di transitive verb.
Linking verbs:
A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence to a noun or adjective that renames or describes the subject. As-
Rajib became a business major.
The verb became, links the subject Rajib to its complement a business major”.
The most common linking verb is the verb to be in all of its forms (am, are, is, was, were etc.). These verbs are also known as helping verbs.
Helping verbs/ Auxiliary verbs:
Helping verbs or auxiliary verbs are used before action or linking verbs to provide with additional information regarding aspects of possibility (can, could etc.) or time (was, did, has etc.). As –
Sajib is flying to China. The trip might be enjoyable.
The verbs in the above mentioned sentence are – Sajib is (helping/auxiliary verb) flying (main verb) to China. The trip might (helping/auxiliary verb) be (main verb) enjoyable. Can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, must, ought to etc. are called modals and they always work as helping verbs.