6th Class English Verb Verb

 

Verb

 

Verb is a word or group of words that expresses action. feeling or existence.

 

1.             Intransitive Verb:

The verb that does not need any object to make a sentence meaningful is called intransitive verb.

For example:

Ram writes.

Neetu plays.

 

2.             Transitive Verb:

The verb that needs an object to make a meaningful sentence is called transitive verb.

For example:

Neetu plays lawn tennis.

Nita loves me.

 

 

 

(a)        Transitive Verb with Two Objects

There are two objects with transitive verbs:

A person and a thing

The person is an indirect and the thing is a direct object.

For example:

Mr. Sharma teaches us Hindi.

He told us about an incident.

If direct object comes before indirect object, then we have to use ?to? or ?for? before indirect object.

For example:

I bought a bouquet for my mother.

 

(a)        Transitive Verb with Object and Complement

There is a complement with object in the sentence.

For example:

He offered her (object) a book (complement).

 

 

3.             Linking Verb:

The verb that needs a complement to make a meaningful sentence is called linking verb.

 

 

(a) Subjective Complement:

The complement describes subject.

For example:

The soup is hot.

Hot describes the soup (subject).

(b) Objective Complement:

The complement describes object.

For example:

They chose Mr. Khanna, their leader.

Leader describes Mr. Khanna (object).

 

4.             Auxiliary Verb:

Auxiliary verbs are the helping verbs which help the main verb in tense, mood or voice.

For example: has, have, shall, is, are, am

I had opened the door

All the verbs have three forms.

 

Present	Past	Past participle
Arise	arose	arisen
Be	was, were	been
Begin	began	begun
Bend	bent	bent
Blow	blew	blown
Bid	bade	bidden
Cling	clung	clung
Draw	drew	drawn
Fall	fell	fallen
Fly	flew	flown
Freeze	froze	frozen
Give	gave	Given
Hide	hid	Hidden
Know	knew	Known
Ring	rang	Rung
Shine	shone	shone
Shrink	shrank	Shrunk
Sit	sat	Sat
Speak	spoke	Spoken
Stick	stuck	Stuck
Swear	swore	sworn
Tear	tore	Torn
Throw	threw	thrown
Win	won	won
Write	wrote	written
Wring	wrung	wrung
Abuse	abused	abused
Act	acted	acted
Answer	answered	answered
Arrive	arrived	arrived
Beg	begged	begged
Believe	believed	believed
Bless	blessed	blessed
Boil	boiled	boiled
Catch	caught	caught
Change	changed	changed
Clap	clapped	clapped
Cook	cooked	cooked
Cover	covered	covered
Crow	crowed	Crowed
Decorate	decorated	decorated
Defeat	defeated	defeated
Discover	discovered	discovered
Dry	dried	dried
Earn	earned	earned
Flee	fled	fled
Hang	hanged	hanged
Invite	invited	invited
Keep	kept	kept
Laugh	laughed	laughed
Like	liked	liked
Move	moved	moved
Need	needed	needed
Open	opened	opened
Pay	paid	paid
Plant	planted	Planted
Prepare	prepared	prepared
Quarrel	quarrelled	quarrelled
Recieve	received	recieved
Repair	repaired	repaired
Return	returned	returned
Say	said	said
Save	saved	saved
Stand	stood	stood
Study	studied	studied
Teach	taught	taught
Tie	tied	Tied
Try	tried	tried
Use	used	used
Walk	walked	walked
Wait	waited	waited
Weep	wept	wept
Waste	wasted	wasted
Yield	yielded	yielded
Bet	bet	bet
Cost	cost	cost
Hurt	hurt	Hurt
Put	put	put
Shed	shed	shed
Shut	shut	shut
Quit	quit	quit