Verb

• Action
• Or state of being
• Says what the noun is up to
• Might not have an obvious object (Tat swims)

Verb Forms

• Infinitive : to go, to do, to think
• Present participle: doing, going, thinking
• Past: did, thought, went
• Past participle: done, thought, gone

Regular verbs

• Follow a pattern
• To work, working, worked, worked
• To spill, spilling, spilled, spilled
• To love, loving, loved, loved

Irregular

• To shrink, shrinking, shrank, shrunk
• To ring, ringing, rang, rung
• To write, writing, wrote, written
• To break, breaking, broke, broken

Transitive Verbs

Intransitive verbs

Passive voice verb

• Shows the subject being acted upon in a weak manner
• The ship was struck by a berg
• Marko was presented with an award
• The problem was discussed
• The cat was groomed

Active voice verb

• The subject is acting
• The meteor struck the ship
• Elise discussed the problem
• Grant received an award for nose wrestling

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