What is Main Verbs and Helping Verbs Examples?
Let’s learn to use action or main verbs grammatically accurate with unique approach and impressive examples to explicate you thoroughly.
Hello friends, I hope that you may have gone through the first two parts of verbs wherein you learnt in the first part about what a verb is and its multiple types while in the second one about Semi Modal Auxiliary Verbs and its surprisingly concepts. In this article you will learn the leftover another part of finite verb types which is actions verbs or you can call it main verbs too.
You can generally categorize these action verbs into 3 parts as shown below.
Here I am giving some usual sentences of the daily use and will underline the different types of verbs and later we will learn them individually.
I sleep at 11 p.m. every night. (Sleep is a transitive verb)
The teacher doesn’t let anyone enter the class after the ring. (Let is a causative verb)
My mother cooks delicious food for my family. (Cooks is an intransitive verb)
You may be confused how to identify each of these verbs and what the difference is amongst all of them. This part of verbs is going to be interesting. If you go through it attentively, it will provide you with its actual outcomes.
What is a main verb?
An action verb is known as the main verb of a sentence. It describes the relation between a main verb and a predicate in the sentence along with an activity or an occurrence for a particular purpose.
Now move on the first part of main verbs which is Transitive verb.
Transitive Verbs
What is a transitive verb?
A transitive verb is an action verb which need an object to complete its meaning or you can say that a sentence with transitive verb is incomplete without an object.
Let’s differentiate it with some examples.
In this sentence the verb Work doesn’t need any object to give its complete meaning. We can still know it.
In the above sentence the like verb tells about the friends but it doesn’t clear what the friends like hence here the meaning is unclear without an object because it is a transitive verb.
Let’s look at some transitive verbs and examples.
Love, answer, ask, hate, praise, give, offer, like, feed, hug, kiss, acknowledge, accept, aggravate, persuade, help, entertain, have, identify, affect, try etc. are some common transitive verb examples.
Now for your assistance there are some examples to explicate you better.
1. A mother loves her children unconditionally.
3. The employs must praise their employees for their efforts.
4. The farmers’ agitation was to persuade the government for the new rule.
5. The Kapil Sharma Show entertains the public.
6. The corona pandemic has affected growth rate across the world.
What is an intransitive verb?
An intransitive verb is a type of action verb. It is always used without an object but it does give its proper meaning without it.
Here are some intransitive verbs given.
Relax, cry, shout, read, dance, walk, get up, give up, collapse, wait, appear, disappear, believe, sing, die, arrive, etc.
Let’s look at some intransitive verbs examples now.
10. He has been waiting here for a long time.
I hope that you can vividly identity the transitive and intransitive verbs easily now but there is still another type of verbs left which is causative verb. This type of verb is quite different from the two above discussed but it is a bit easier than them. Let’s finish the verbs now with the last type.
What is a causative verb?
The subject of a causative verbs doesn’t act out anything for him any but it makes others do things for themselves and stays itself inactive.
It can seem unclear to go through the definition but the examples will surely help you out.
10. I had my friend to complete my homework in school days.
You can write a story and find out the different types of verbs and underline them later. You can share the story with your friends to recheck it. This will help you improve your writing skill.
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