Verb typology

Verbs are the heart of communication. They express tense, mood, person and number. Also, you cannot make an understendable sentence without a verb.

Example:

Marianna, come over right now.
Here, the mood is imperative, third person singular and present tense.
Without the verb the sentence wouldn't make sense.

Finite verbs are the ones that can make a statement
about a subject.
They´re also the ones that can express person and number.

Example:

Sara FELL in love

Non-finite verbs are the ones that don't show a distinction
in person, number or tense.

They're divided into 4 categories

Gerunds: Baking, singing

She likes singing songs

Present participles: Baking, singing

She is singing a song

Past participles: Baked, sung

They have sung for over an hour

Infinitives: To bake, to sing

I want to bake something

Predicating verbs are the ones that describe what
is said of the subject

Herrera looks handsome.

Linking verbs are the ones that connect the subject
to the description.

Herrera is teaching french.

These are the only part of the verb frase
that can be inflected to show person and number.

He is cooking
They are laughing

Transitive verbs are the ones that require an object
to complete their meaning.

Please bring coffee

Intransitive verbs are the ones that don't require
an object to complete their meaning.

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