Types of Verbs

Vocabulary flashcards defining action, stative, transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs based on the lecture notes.

Action Verbs

Verbs that refer to any literal, physical, or mental action taken place by people or objects (e.g., walk, break, fall, hop, skip).

Helping verbs

Work with other verbs in the sentence. Often they change the meaning of the sentence

Regular verbs

Verbs that are in the past tense

Stative Verbs

Verbs that refer to states of being, including things like beliefs or emotions that people have (e.g., love, need, own, doubt, imagine).

Transitive Verbs

Verbs accompanied by a direct object, where the direct object is the noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that is having something done to it by the subject in that specific sentence (e.g., borrow, bring, discuss, raise, lower).

Direct Object

The noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that is having something done to it by the subject in that specific sentence.

Intransitive Verbs

Verbs NOT used with a direct object, which are the complete opposite of transitive verbs (e.g., walk, jump, think, believe, fall).

Linking Verbs

Verbs used to link a subject with a subject complement (e.g., be, grow, seem, get, look).

Irregular verbs

They are in the past tense, but they don’t end in -ed -d -t

Phrasal verbs

They are combined with prepositions and adverbs and may take on a different meaning