Are Verbs important? Why/ why not?
TRUE or FALSE? The English verb has only 2 forms. Right answer: It has 3 forms: The Infinitive, the Gerund & the Participle
a) How are the 3 Verb Forms used? e.g. I play, I am playing I want to play While playing, I hurt myself
b) How are the 3 Verb Forms used? e.g. I was happy when I got your I was happy to get your .
TRUE or FALSE? Main OR Finite Verbs = the backbone of a sentence, limited by number, person, voice, mood and tense.
TRUE or FALSE? Auxiliary OR Helping Verbs = aids of Main ones responsible for changing Moods in a sentence. Right answer: aids of Main verbs in forming the tenses (BE, HAVE, DO).
TRUE or FALSE? Modal Verbs= further aids of both Main and Auxiliary ones and responsible for changing Moods within a sentence.
What are Transitive Verbs?
What are Intransitive Verbs?
Can verbs be both Transitive & Intransitive?
Can Intransitive verbs have Transitive uses?
What are Double-Object Verbs?
What are the 2 possible constructions of Double-Object Verbs?
A verb’s ‘number’ All of the above focuses on the action must come before the subject shifts the focus of the sentence is obvious by the person & the verb ending(s)
A verb’s ‘Person’ OR ‘Subject’ can be: a noun phrase in the nominative case a noun clause a gerund/ gerund phrase a common or proper noun/ a pronoun all of the following choices
TRUE or FALSE? Voice= form of the verb that shifts the focus of the sentence.
TRUE or FALSE? There are 4 Main Voices in English. Right answer: 2 - Active & Passive (& a kind of Middle Voice).
Match to the right definition by clicking in turn on the right yellow shape: Active Voice Middle Voice I Passive Voice Middle Voice II Moods show fact, non-fact, orders, etc focuses on action & object focuses on ‘who’ has the action returning to the subject can be formed by -self pronouns
What does the ‘Infinitive Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List give?
How is the ‘Past Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List used?
And the ‘Participle Column’?
TRUE or FALSE? Double Participle Verbs= transitive verbs with two objects. Right answer: verbs with two participle forms: one for the perfect and passive tenses & one used as adjective, predicate or suffix in compound adjectives.
What are the 2 participle forms of the following verbs?
work: wrought, worked drink: drunken, drunk load: laden, loaded get: gotten, got rot: rotten, rotted knit: knit, knitted sink: sunken, sunk shave: shaven, shaved shrink: shrunken, shrunk strike: stricken, struck clothe: clad, clothed light: lighted, lit swell: swollen, swelled
What are the spelling rules for the ‘3 rd person singular of the Present’?
What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-s ending of the 3 rd person singular of the Present’?
What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?
What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?
What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ing ending of the Gerund & the Present Participle’?