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Mr. Tom Posted 19 years ago
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Kinds of a verb

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00Could you please tell me 01b01u00how many kinds02u02b00 of 01b00a verb02b00 are there? In fact, this question has always troubled me because almost all books show a different number. Some books mention some kinds and some mention the others. One of my books, for example, describes "01i00transitive and intransitive verbs02i00" this way, making it very confusing for me to understand.02br
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001- There are 01b01u00two02u02b00 kinds of a verb: 01i00transitive and intransitive02i02br
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00 Why 01b00two02b00? What about the others? If someone has ever listed down all the kinds of a verb, could I please know the spicific number?0-
  

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0 Hi Tom02br
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00Yes, there are transitive and intransitive verbs. Intransitive verbs don't take an object. Transitive verbs take an object, and sometimes there is a direct object and an indirect object.02br
00Some verbs are both transitive and intransitive, depending on which meaning you choose:02br
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0Many thanks, Amy02br
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00Let's put it this way. A student of yours asks you in the class:02br
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00"Miss, how many01b00 kinds02b00 of 01b00a verb02b00 are there?"02br
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01i01u00What would your answer be?02u02i02br
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0 Hi Tom02br
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00Believe it or not, in all my years of teaching ESL classes, I don't believe anyone ever asked me that question. You're the first. 05002br
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00I don't think you can simply say "There are X kinds of verbs" without first stating what aspect you are trying to categorize.02br
00For example, there are regular and irregular
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what are the properties of verb?
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Hi Mr. Tom. As Yankee says, there is really no good answer to the question "how many kinds of verb are there?" When books say There are two kinds of a verb: transitive and intransitive it is a rather awkward way of saying "all verbs can be categorized as either transitive or intransitive" -- but there are many other ways to
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How many kinds of books are there?
How many kinds of flowers are there?
How many kinds of animals are there?
How many kinds of sentences are there?
How many kinds of verbs are there?

None of these questions has a definitive answer. It depends on how you wish to classify the things you are talking about. And you can classify any group of things in a nearly infinite n
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This thread is beginning to remind me of the old joke -- "There are three kinds of people -- those who can count, and those who can't."
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could u pls give the kinds of verbs

thank you
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