VERB

A verb is a part of speech that describes an action or occurrence or determines the state of being. The verb is the heart of the sentence.

Note: In English language there is no sentence without a verb. 

In the first sentence “are” describes the state of being. But in the second sentence “plays” describes an action.

* She dances well.

* He is intelligent.

* They shared the food among themselves.

* He plays card.

* I will meet her tomorrow.

* She loves me.

Verbs can be broadly classified into two types:

Main Verb: 

Main verb indicate the main action in the sentence. Have you noticed the underline word in the above sentence? They all signify the main action in the sentences. 

Auxiliary Verb:

 Auxiliary verb helps the main verb and signify time and number of the action.

         “David will eat spaghetti and meatballs for dinner tonight”

Explanation:  In the above sentence “eat” is the main verb and “will” is the auxiliary verb.

More examples:

* Patricia can swim in the pool late night.

* William F.Lamb has designed the Empire State building.

 * I am going office tomorrow.

* The girls were cooking food.

* Those quick squirrels have run up the maple tree.

*The cycle is making an awful noise.

* Mike and his elder brother are happy.

* He does like movie.

* Sally was watching T.V all day.

There is another way of categorizing verbs:

Continuous Verbs: Verbs in sentence with “-ing” form is known as continuous verb. For example:

                             “Mike and I will be eating dinner tonight”

In the above sentence “eat+ing” is a main verb. Because of -ing form the verb is continuous verb.

* They are playing together.

Non- Continuous verbs: Verbs in sentence without “-ing” form is called non-continuous verbs. Specifically these verbs are usually things you cannot see someone doing it.

Its of three types:

Verbs of emotion- To love, to hate, to dislike, to like etc.

                     “I like honest person”

Verbs of passion- to possess, to own, to belong etc

“I possess 200 pens”, “I have a pair of scissors”

Abstract verbs- “to want”

“I want to be an engineer”, “I want to have ice-cream”

Here are few exercise mentioned below just do it and make sure while you are doing the exercise go through the above article.

Find Out the Main Verb in Each Setence Below by Suresh Sheel