Verbs

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001 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 02br
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002 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in continuous tenses) i.e. eat, run, talk02br
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003 state of being verbs; existence verbs; state verbs; stative verbs; static verbs (a verb which describes a state and is not usually used in a continuous tense) i.e. be, own, know02br
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004 regular verbs (a verb that has four forms and follows the normal rules)02br
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005 irregular verbs; strong verbs (a verb not following the normal rules for inflection)02br
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006 auxiliary and modal verbs (which make up verbal phrases) – 23 in total02br
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007 linking verbs; copulative verbs; copulas (a verb which links the subject and complement of a clause) i.e. It is warm today.00 02br
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008 transitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that involves more than one person or thing, and so is followed by an object) i.e. She’s wasting her money. 02br
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009 intransitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that only involved the subject and so has no object) i.e. She arrived. 02br
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0010 multiword verbs02br
00a type 1 – intransitive [phrasal verbs; adverb particle02br
00b type 2 – transitive (inseparable) [prepositional verbs; preposition particles]02br
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00c type 3 – transitive (separable) [phrasal verbs; adverb particle]02br
00d type 4 – transitive (with two inseparable particles) [phrasal-prepositional verbs;00 first particle is an adverb, second particle is a preposition]02br
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0011 compound verbs02br
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0012 delexical verbs (a verb which has very little meaning in itself but is used with an object to describe an action) i.e. She gave a small cry.02br
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0013 ditransitive verbs (a verb which can have both a direct and indirect object) i.e. She gave me a kiss. 02br
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0014 ergative verbs (a verb which can be used transitively to focus on the performer of the action, or intransitively to focus on the thing affected by the action) i.e. He boiled the water. The water boiled. 02br
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0015 reporting verbs; performance verbs; performative verbs (a verb used with a quote or a reported clause to describe what people say or think) i.e. suggest, say, wonder02br
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0016 reciprocal verbs (a verb which describes an action involving two people doing the same thing to each other) i.e. They met in the street. 02br
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0017 reflexive verbs (a verb which is typically used with a reflexive pronoun) i.e. Don’t cut yourself with that knife.02br
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0018 defective verbs (a verb without all the inflected forms of a regular verb) i.e. modals 02br
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0019 finite and non-finite02br
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00a infinitives02br
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00b gerunds; verbal nouns02br
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00c participles02br
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0020 catenative verbs (a verb that takes other verb forms as objects; found at the head of a series of linked constructions) i.e. We agreed to try to decide to stop eating snacks.02br
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0021 causative verbs (a verb that designates the action necessary to cause another action to happen) i.e. The devil made me do it. 0-