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Verbs
helping verbs, action verbs, direct object, etc....
Question | Answer |
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Indirect object | answers the question to whom? or for what? the action was done. |
intransitive | does not have a direct object. |
transitive | Has a direct object. |
direct Object | Receives the action of a verb. It answers the question whom? or What? after an action verb. |
Action Verb | Names an action. It may contain more than one word. |
Linking Verb | Connects the subject a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate. |
Predicate Noun | A noun that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like. |
Present Progressive Form | Verb tells about an action that is continuing right now. |
Present tense | a verb names an action that happens regularly. It can also express a general truth. |
future tense | Verb names an action taht will take place in the future. |
predicate adjective | Is an adjective that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like. |
Past Progressive Form | Verb names an action that continued for some time in the past. |
Present Perfect Tense | Verb Tells about something that happened at an indefinite time in the past. It also tells about an action that happened in the past and is still happening now. |
Past Perfect Tense | Verb names an action that happened before another action or event in the past. |
Past Tense | Verb names an action that already happened. |
Verb Phrase | Consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb. |