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Examples:
We rob banks.
Do you know her name?
Yesterday they played together.
Transitive verbs
This kind of verbs express and action.
Theyre followed by a direct object (thing or person that
receives the action).
Examples:
Examples:
He met her yesterday (Who did he meet?)
She wrote a story last year (What did she write?)
Rust destroys iron (What does rust destroy?)
Intransitive verbs
They do not take a direct object.
Theres no a word in the sentence that tells who or what
receive the action.
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
We have:
Primary auxiliaries
Modal verbs
How do they help?
Syntactically: They perform some grammatical function, as:
In forming the passive
In expressing the continuity (progressive) aspect
In expressing the perfect (completed) aspect
Semantically:
To be:
He is watching TV (continuous tense)
To have:
I have finished my homework (perfect tense)
To do:
I do not like you (negative)
Do you want some coffee? (ask a question)
I do want you to pass the exam (show
emphasize)
Modal verbs:
I can not speak Chinese, She could do it for you,
Would you like a cup of coffee?, You should go to
the doctor
Morphologically
Regular verbs
In English grammar, a regular verb is a verb that forms
its past tense and past participle by adding at the end -d or -
ed to the base form.
The majority of English verbs are regular.
PAST
BASE FORM PAST
PARTICIPLE
stop stopped
ban - banned
swap swapped
Break-broke-broken
Cut-cut-cut
Irregular Run-ran-run
Meet-met-met
verbs Come-came-come
Swim-swam-swum
Be-was/were-been
Compound verbs
In English grammar, a
compound verb is made up of
two or more words that function
as a single verb.
A prepositional verb
A phrasal verb
Prepositional verbs
They are an idiomatic expression that combines a verb
and a preposition to make a new verb with a distinct
meaning.
The preposition in a prepositional verb is generally
followed by a noun or a pronoun, so they are transitive
verbs.
Examples:
She is listening to music.
She looked at the blackboard.
They were waiting for the teacher.
Do you agree with me?
Phrasal verbs
Phrasal verbs are usually two-word phrases consisting
of a verb + adverb or verb + preposition.
Classification Intransitive phrasal verbs:
Example:
I made up an
excuse. ('Excuse'
is the object of the
verb)
Classification Inseparable phrasal
verbs:
Separable phrasal verbs:
Some transitive
Some transitive phrasal verbs
phrasal verbs
are separable. (The object
are inseparable. (The
is between the verb and the
object is placed after
preposition.)
the preposition.)
Example:
Example:
I looked the word up in the
I will look into the
dictionary.
matter as soon as
possible.
Forms of To Have
For example:
I have a shower in my bathroom, I don't have a bath. =
I have got a shower in my bathroom. I haven't got a
bath.
As a main verb: Action
Actions
Example:
I have a shower every day. - I'm having a shower
now.
Do we have a car?
Have you got a car?
As an Auxiliary verb
The verb to have is used as an auxiliary verb to help other
verbs create the perfect tense.
For example,:
I have read a lot of books,
I have never been to America
"I have already eaten"
Perfect tenses
PRESENT PERFECT
PAST PERFECT
Verbs of having
Usually used in They can also be used
continuous forms to after certain words.
emphasize a temporary Example:
state or action. There are advantages
Example: to having a flat in the
Shes having a shower city.
right now.