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Contents
Context ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Verbs & Auxiliary Verbs............................................................................................................................. 3
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Exercises ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
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Context
This document contains exercises to be completed as a part of the module- Verbs & Auxiliary Verbs.
Is a word or a phrase that indicates an Action or a State of Being. E.g. He teaches French
(Action). He is in poor health (State of Being).
Tells us what a person or thing does E.g. The president addressed the nation.
Tells us about subject/object. E.g. the president (Subject) addressed (Verb) the nation
(Object).
A Subject indicates the doer of the action while an Object refers to the person or thing who suffers the
action. Addressed is the verb which takes nation as the Object to complete the sense of the sentence.
Such verbs which take an Object are called Transitive Verbs.
Not all sentences need objects to complete their sense. E.g. Rose smells sweet. It does not need an
Object to give complete meaning. In such case smells is an Intransitive Verb. Such verbs have no
passive form.
Main Verbs such as, eat, read, work, discuss, play etc.
Auxiliary Verbs such as the verb be (is, are, am, was, were, be, being, been), do forms (do,
does, did), has, have, had, can, could etc.
Auxiliary verbs are also called as Helping verbs. There are two kinds of auxiliary verbs
Primary Auxiliaries, which are used to form questions, tenses etc. E.g.Has, does, am, was, have.
Modal Auxiliaries. E.g. can, could, shall, should, will, would, may might, must, need to, used to,
ought to. Dared to. Modal auxiliaries seek to express possibility, necessity and permission.
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Exercises
Objective: To understand the usage of different kinds of Verbs.
Problem Description:
a)
Underline the verbs in the following sentences; say whether they are transitive or intransitive
verbs:
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