Verb comes from Latin verbum, a word. It is so called because it is the most important word in a sentence.

Verb is a word or group of words that expresses an action, an event or state. Every sentence must have a verb. The verb follows the subject in a declarative sentence. The verb may be a verb phrase. A verb phrase consists of one or more auxiliaries and one main verb. The auxiliaries always precede the main verb.

1) What a person or thing is:

Rashed is a student.

2) What a person or thing has: A table has four legs. 3)What a person or thing does: The boy is reading a book. 4)What is done to a person or thing: Rafi is scolded.

Verbs are mainly two types: 1)Auxiliary verb; 2)Principal verb;

An auxiliary verb is one which helps a principal verb to form a tense or mood or voice. Auxiliary verbs or Helping verbs are two types: 1)Primary Auxiliaries or Tense Auxiliaries For Example: am, is ,are, have, do etc. 2)Modal Auxiliaries For Example: shall, will, can, may, must, need etc.

1)To be(am, is ,are, was, were, being): Be verb is used for indicating continuous tense and passive voice. For Example: John is reading a book. The work is being done by him. To be may also be used as a principal verb: Such as: Bills father is a teacher.

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have(have, has ,had, having): To indicate perfect tense, passive voice and Nominative Absolute to have is used.
He had left the school before the class over.(perfect

tense) Football has been played by the boys.(passive) The sun having risen, darkness disappeared.(Nominative Absolute) To have may also be used as principal verb: For example: I have a nice umbrella.

Functions of Primary Auxiliaries or tense Auxiliaries To do: To make interrogative sentence do verb is used. For Example: Do you like to play football? Did you complete your homework?

To do: To make negative sentence do verb is used. For Example: He does not want to be very rich. They did not play Chess.

To do: To give stress in a statement do verb is used. For Example: I do believe that you will succeed. To do is generally used as a principal verb: For Example: We should do the work sincerely.

Modal Auxiliaries are those helping verbs which help to express the mode or manner in which the action is done. The modals are different from other auxiliaries in three ways: 1)They do not have s, -ing, -ed or -en forms. 2)Modals take only the base form of principal verbs after them. 3)Modals modify the meanings of the main verbs.

 To express ability can or could is used. The panther can run fast.

To express request could is used.

Could I have a glass of water? To express possibility, asking and giving

permission may is used. It may rain today.(possibility) May I come in, sir?(Asking permission) Yes, you may.(giving permission)

To express certainty/obligation must is used. You must do your duty.

To express advice should/ought to is used.

You ought to respect your parents. To express habit used(to) is used. I used to walk early in the morning.

The verbs which are used independently without help from other verbs are called Principal verbs or Main verbs.

Principal verbs are of two types:

1)Transitive Verb 2)Intransitive verb

A Transitive verb is a verb that denotes an action which passes over from the doer or subject to an object. For Example: The boy kicks the ball. Here, the action denoted by the verb kicks passes over from the doer or subject boy to some object football. The verb, kicks therefore, called transitive verb.(Transitive means passing over)

A verb is Intransitive when the action stops with the agent, and does not pass from the agent to something else .It expresses a state or being. The girl danced rhythmically. Here, the action denoted by the verb danced stops with the doer or subject girl and does not pass over to an object. The verb, danced is therefore, called Intransitive verb.