Our class this week finished writing the notes for the principal part of verbs on Tuesday. Verbs show action or state of being (“be” is a to be verb). An example of a verb in a sentence is: We read several Mexican folktales. The verb would be read because it is what the subject is doing. The verb is an action. Another example is: Folktales are traditional stories of people. The verb is are and it is a stated of being. There are two different types of verbs. They are regular and irregular verbs. They can be changed into base, past, past participle, and present participle. Base is the regular form of the verb without changing anything. Past is adding –ed or –d. Past participle is adding have or had in front of the past form of the verb. Present participle is adding –ing to the verb. An example of a regular verb is talk. The base for it is talk. The past form is talked. The past participle is have or had talked. Lastly, the present participle is talking. Another example for a regular verb is walk. The base is walk. The past is walked. The past participle is have or had walked. Finally, the present participle is walking. An example for irregular verbs is eat. The base is eat. The past form is ate. The past participle is have or had eaten. The last one is present participle, which is eating. Next, we move onto verb phrases. A verb phrase is two or more verbs that work together as a unit. A verb phrase may have one or more auxiliary verbs and main verbs. Some auxiliary verbs are be and have and all the forms. Other examples would be do, did, can, may, might, should, could, and will. This lesson was very interesting and I liked regular verbs better.
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