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verbs

Verbs are where all the action’s at—literally. They’re one of the main parts of speech that builds language, and they tell us what is actually going in sentences and speech. Verb is called “a word” for a reason (because they’re the most important words in a sentence).

There are many times of verbs, some of the most regularly confused include verb tenses, which are the inflections verbs take to show when they occured. The three principal tenses in English are the present tense, past tense and future tense. Each tense has four forms, or subsets; which, altogether, comprises of the 12 verb tenses in English.

Types of Verbs (Transitive and Intransitive)

Verbs describe actions and states of being. Transitive and intransitive verbs concern whether actions are done to someone or something, and have a sentence object.

When is it Correct to Use Is or Are?

Use is when the noun is singular, and ‘are’ when the noun is plural. Remeber: the subject and the verb in a sentence must agree with each other in count!