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This document defines different types of verbs and provides examples. It discusses verbs as single words or verb phrases. Verbs can be transitive or intransitive depending on whether they pass action to a direct object. Transitive verbs require a direct object, while intransitive verbs do not. The document also defines linking verbs, which connect the subject to a word in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject, such as a predicate adjective or nominative.
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The presentation describes verbs, types and classification. Adjective, verb & adverb
Adjective, verb & adverbNisa Galuh
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This document provides an overview of verbs, including:
1. Adjectives and adverbs allow sentences to be more descriptive. Adjectives modify nouns and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
2. Verbs express actions, events, or states of being. They indicate what the subject is doing. Verbs have different forms depending on tense, voice, and mood.
3. Verb phrases contain a main verb and one or more helping verbs. Helping verbs aid in expressing time or action. Linking verbs connect the subject to a descriptive word.Ad
Verbs
- 1. Verbs A verbshows action, links another word to the subject, helps another verb, or merely indicates existence. Sometimes the verbis asingle word; other times, the verbis made up of two or more words calleda verbphrase. A verb phraseconsistof a main verb plus one or more helping verbs. Sometimes a verb phraseis interrupted by other words. Be careful to locate all the helping verbs that go with the main verb. My songs and poems shallnot always beheard. KINDS OF VERBS ACCORDING TO USE Action verbs areeither transitiveor intransitive. Non- action verbs are called linking (copulative) verbs are helping (auxiliary) verbs according to their usein sentences. A transitiveverb expresses an action which passes from the subject to a direct object or when the subject is acted upon. Itneeds a receiver of the action or a direct object. A gland produces a fluid that the body needs to work properly. (Thedirect object fluid receives the action of the verb produces.) An intransitive verb does not need an object or receiver of its action. People snorewhen soft tissues in the throat collapse during deep sleep. (The verb snoredoes not pass its action to any word in the sentence.) A linking verb is a non- action word that connects the subjectto a word in the predicate. The word linked to the subjectmay be a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective that identifies or describes the subject.
- 2. Most metals are chemically reactive. (The verb are links the adjective reactive to the subjectmetals. The word reactive describes metals and is a predicate adjective.) Many iron ores such as magnetic are oxides. The verb are links the noun oxides to the subjectores. The word oxide identifies ores and is a predicate nominative.)