Parts of Speech Part 5 (Verb)

Verb

“Verb is an action word which describes to do something or to be something in a specific period.”

There is no sentence without verb but verb is a complete sentence e.g. read or write these are imperative sentences in which a person is ordered by other person.

Types of verb

There are five kinds of a verb listed below.

1.  Transitive verb

This type of verb needs an object to state its connotations. For example, he plays hockey, in this sentence hockey is an object without hockey verb “play” cannot explain his meaning.

2.  Intransitive verb

Intransitive verb has capability to state its connotation without an object. For example, he laughs, laugh is an intransitive verb that no needs an object to explain its meaning.

3. Incomplete verb

Some transitive verbs need two or more objects similarly some intransitive verbs need an object to state their meanings; this type of verb is called incomplete verb. For example, he is ill; is an intransitive verb (here incomplete verb) that cannot explain its meaning without ill.

4.  Week verb

In week verb, to make 2nd or 3rd form of a verb an addition of d, ed or t is required at the end of a verb. For example, 2nd form of work is worked similarly, 2nd form of build is built.

5.  Strong verb

In this type of verb we make changes in the middle of verb with vowel.For example, 2nd form of tell is told. It is called strong verb.

★ Infinitive 
We add " to " before first form of a verb to make infinitive as "to eat " infinitive is used without regarding time and number.

★ Participle
We add "ing " at the end of a verb to make participle. For example, eat + ing = eating , it is used as adjective or verb e.g. I am eating.

★ Gerund

 We add "ing " at the end of a verb to make a gerund like swimming, it is used as a noun for example swimming is a good habit .

Roles of making gerund and participle are same but usage is difference.