Verb typology

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Verb typology

Predicating verbs -Transivity

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

The group left

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

Please bring coffee

Auxiliary verbs

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

He is cooking They are laughing

Predicating and linking verbs

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

Herrera is teaching french.

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

Herrera looks handsome.

Finite and non-finite verbs

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

They're divided into 4 categories

Infinitives: To bake, to sing

I want to bake something

Past participles: Baked, sung

They have sung for over an hour

Present participles: Baking, singing

She is singing a song

Gerunds: Baking, singing

She likes singing songs

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

Sara FELL in love

The heart of communication

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.