-VERB-

A verb is a word that tells what a person or thing does:

For example:

    The sun shines

    The baby cries

    That man was hanged

    That student was praised

    Diamonds are beautiful

    I feel nervous

    That man is alive

There are two kind of verbs:

1.Lexible Verbs - Action words with meaning:

Laugh, talk, sing, dance, give, win, shake, jump, walk, listened, saw, wrote, watched, went, etc.

2.Function Verbs – Action words without any meaning of their own. These are used to help lexible verbs state when a certain action has happened:

am, is, was, be, being, have, do

For example:

   - Suhaila is a girl.

   - She is studying at the University of California.

   - (‘is’ helps ‘studying’ to show us that Suhaila is still studying at the university now)

The most important parts of a verb in English are

         The Present Tense

                  The Past Tense

               The Past Participle

We form other verbs from these.

The following is a reference list for these three categories of verbs:

Present Tense	Part Tense	Past Participle
arise	arose	arisen
bear (carry)	bore	born
beat	bore	borne
become	beat	beaten

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