The document contains snippets of text about various grammatical concepts including verbs, their types and forms. It discusses action verbs, linking verbs, auxiliary verbs, intransitive verbs, transitive verbs and irregular verbs. Examples are provided to illustrate different verb types and their usage.
13. • Be, have, and do are the most
common auxiliary verbs.
• Other common auxiliary verbs
include can, could, should,
would, may, might, and must.
14. • An intransitive verb is one
that does not have a direct
object.
• Intransitive verbs may be
followed by an adverb
15. 1. "The woman spoke softly.”
2. "The athlete ran faster than
the official."
3. "The boy wept."
16. • Is followed by a noun or
noun phrase.
• these noun phrases are not
called predicates nouns but
are instead called direct
objects.
17. 1. "My friend read the
newspaper.“
2. "The
teenager earned a
speeding ticket."
18. • Forms its past tense
and past participle by
adding –d or –ed (or in
some cases –t) to the
base form.
19. PRESENT
Plural
Singular
PRESENT
PAST PRESENT
PARTICIPLE
marry marries married marrying
own owns owned owning
frustrate frustrates frustrated frustrating
call calls called calling