VERBS Identifying verbs
المؤلف:
EVELYNP.ALTENBERG & ROBERTM.VAGO
المصدر:
English Grammar Understanding the basics
الجزء والصفحة:
P23-C2
2025-11-01
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VERBS
Identifying verbs
What’s a verb? Verbs are words that usually express an action. Here are two easy ways to identify a verb; you can use either one.
Quick tip
If a word can have should in front of it and the phrase sounds complete, the word is a verb. Examples: should leave, should sail, should discover, should complain. Leave, sail, discover, and complain are all verbs.
Quick tip
If a word can have to in front of it and the phrase sounds complete, it’s a verb. Examples: to leave, to sail, to discover, to complain. Leave, sail, discover, and complain are all verbs. (Note that we’re not talking here about two, too, or the to that indicates direction, a sin Let’s go to the park.)
Here are some examples of verbs. You can see that they all meet the test with should and the test with to.
In contrast, the following words do not pass the should or to test:
Thus, coffee, beautiful, hardly, and under are not verbs.
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