17th Bel120 class... Verb

Verb categorize into two..

•ACTION

•regular

•End in ‘-ed’ when the past tense and past participle forms are used

•Jog, jogged, jogged

•Walk, walked, walked

•irregular

•End in other ways when the past tense and past participle forms are used

•Read, read, read

•Buy, bought, bought

•TRANSITIVE

•Require an object in the sentence, and the object comes after the verb

•Note : the object tell us who or what the action happens to. A transitive verb must have an object because without an object, the sentence with the transitive verb is incomplete

•He plays football.

•Adam often buys present for his family.

•INTRANSITIVE

•Definition

•Does not require an object

•Note

•A sentence with an intransitive verb is complete without an object

•Example

•He jogged along the track

•The beautiful actress smiled

•NON-ACTION

•BE

•Usually comes immediately after the subject in statements.

•Am,is,are,was,were,been,being

•LINKING

•Use to link the subject of a sentence with more information about the subject.

•Can be divided into three group of expression :

•1.   Feeling and thought

•2.  Possession

•3.  Sensory perception

•AUXILIARY

žSupport and give meaning to the main verbs.

ž examples :can,could,will,would,shall,should,may,

  might,ought to,had better

žFunctions of auxiliary verbs :

vTo express ability

vTo express possibility

vTo express permission

vTo express advice

vTo express necessity

At the end of the class, We played Good Reader also good detective games. Miss zur saperate us into 6 group and wehave to guess the video that miss zur open. we have to guess the main idea and topic in the movie