Grammar: Word classes: Verbs
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What are the different types of verb?
There are many different ways of classifying verbs. For teaching purposes, it is useful to put verbs into four different categories, depending on the work that they do:
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Some verbs express physical actions and events.
We can call these 'doing' verbs (swim,
climb, crawl).  |
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Some verbs do not express physical actions;
rather, they express processes that take place in our brains, involving thoughts and
feelings. We can call these 'thinking, feeling and
perceiving' verbs (wonder, think, like, need, see). |
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Some verbs are used to report the words which
people have said. We can call these 'saying' verbs
(ask, answer, say). |
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Some verbs help us to identify or describe some
characteristic of a person or thing. We can call these 'relating'
verbs (be, seem, appear). |
Can you identify different types of verbs? |
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When dealing with language in the classroom, it is useful to be able to identify different types of verbs because of the different grammatical patterns associated with each type. |
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For more information about the grammatical patterns associated with each different types of verbs, see:
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Grammar: Clause: Using the clause to represent experience: Overview |
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