Word classes: Verbs and adverbs

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Are often know as ''doing words'' and can also refer to physical actions
Verbs
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What else can verbs be referred to ?? e.g.(Anticipate, think)
Mental actions
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Verbs that are referred to physical actions are called ?
Dynamic verbs
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Verbs which refer to states or condition ( e.g She felt happy) are called?
Stative verbs
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In a clause or sentence is a single verb that expresses the main meaning
Main verbs
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Sometimes known as ''helping verb'' are verbs that are placed in front of main verb '' I must have been thinking about something else''
Auxiliary verbs
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Are only ever used in conjunctions with a main verb. Usually used to make a request more polite ''would''
Modal Auxiliaries
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Type of verb that has an object, the object of the verb is the object of the action- the person or thing that something is being done to (He was whistling a Beatles song) ''Beatles
Transitive
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It doesn't have an object ( he was whistling) no object
Intransitive
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Usually gives us more information about verbs. They describe verbs in rather the same way that adjectives describe nouns. Many ''??" are formed by adding -ly to the ends of adjectives
Adverbs
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Card 2

Front

What else can verbs be referred to ?? e.g.(Anticipate, think)

Back

Mental actions

Card 3

Front

Verbs that are referred to physical actions are called ?

Back

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Card 4

Front

Verbs which refer to states or condition ( e.g She felt happy) are called?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

In a clause or sentence is a single verb that expresses the main meaning

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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