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Verbs in Conveying
Emotional Response or
Reaction to an Issue
January 04, 2021
Quarter 1: Module 3 – Lesson 2
CONTENTS:
Types of Verbs
Tenses of the Verb
Subject-Verb Agreement
Parallelism
VERB AND
ITS TYPES
1
VERB
Express action or state of
being.
TYPES OF VERBS
ACTION VERBS HELPING VERBS
Transitive Verbs
Intransitive Verbs
LINKING VERBS
1. ACTION VERBS
are words that express action (give, eat, walk) or possession
(have, own).
Action verbs can be either transitive or intransitive.
TRANSITIVE VERB INTRANSITIVE VERB
• has a noun or a noun phrase that receives the • never has a direct object or
action of the verb called direct object. indirect object. Although it
may be followed by an
For example: adverb or adverbial phrase,
Laughing brightens our spirit. there is no object to
receive its action.
• Sometimes has indirect object. The indirect
object of a sentence is the recipient of the direct For example:
object. Norman slowly rises from his
seat.
For example:
Endorphins in the brain give (verb) people (indirect
object) an overall happy well-being (direct object).
2. LINKING VERBS
connect the subject of a sentence to a noun or
adjective that renames or describes the
subject. The noun or adjective is called the
subject complement.
For example:
verb
Laughter is powerful.
subject complement
3. HELPING VERBS
used before action or linking verbs to convey
additional information regarding aspects of
possibility (can, could) or time (was, did, has, etc.)
For example:
Laughing has helped create the smile which is the
universal sign of well-being.
has=helping verb
helped=main verb
SIMPLE TENSES
OF VERBS
2
1. SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
is used to describe a current activity or state of being. The verb
is usually in its base form or sometimes ends in –s.
For example:
He answers his assignments.
number
singular plural
RULE #1: Singular subject takes singular verbs.
The –s form of the verb is used with singular subject.