Forms of Verbs
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
Below are 10 examples of the different forms of a verb:
Base Form (V1) | Past Simple Form (V2) | Past Participle (V3) | Present Participle (V4) | Third-Person Singular Present (V5) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Attract | Attracted | Attracted | Attracting | Attracts |
Boil | Boiled | Boiled | Boiling | Boils |
Crush | Crushed | Crushed | Crushing | Crushes |
Enjoy | Enjoyed | Enjoyed | Enjoying | Enjoys |
Guess | Guessed | Guessed | Guessing | Guesses |
Grow | Grew | Grown | Growing | Grows |
Mourn | Mourned | Mourned | Mourning | Mourns |
Tear | Torn | Torn | Tearing | Tears |
Spit | Spat | Spat | Spitting | Spits |
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
The base form of a verb is the root verb, which remains unchanged. No suffixes are added to this verb form. When looking for the meaning of a verb, its base form is used. These include play, jump, smile, carry, etc.
Example:
- Please write your name and roll number on the answer sheet.
- Children play in the garden every evening.
- Sunflowers grow well in sunlight.
- I want to watch a documentary today.
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
V1, V2, and V3 are the three basic forms of a verb.
- V1 is the base form of a verb and is also known as a root verb. It is the original form of the verb that is used to create the different verb forms. For example: Write, Speak, Go, Listen
- V2 is the past simple form of a verb, which shows that an action was completed in the past. To frame V2 verb form suffixes like 'd', 'ed', or 'ied' are added to the regular verbs, while irregular verbs have no specific rule. For example: Wrote, Spoke, Went, Listened
- V3 is the past participle form of a verb that uses auxiliary verbs (has, have, had) to frame perfect tenses. For example: Written, Spoken, G
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
There are five forms of verbs in English grammar. These are:
- Base Form/Root Verb (V1): Hear, Lead, Freeze, Eat
- Past Simple Form (V2): Heard, Led, Froze, Ate
- Past Participle Form (V3): Heard, Led, Frozen, Eaten
- Present Participle Form (V4): Hearing, Leading, Freezing, Eating
- Third-Person Singular Present Simple Form (V5): Hears, Leads, Freezes, Eats
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
Verb forms refer to the different ways in which a verb or root verb changes its form to show the time of an action (present, past, future). The different forms of the verb help to frame a grammatically correct sentence by matching the verb with the subject and using the proper tense.
Examples:
- Tear -> Tore-> Torn
- Strike-> Struck-> Struck
- Go-> Went-> Gone
- Sit-> Sat-> Sat
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