what is the verbs?

Question

deffinetion of verbs in english grammer

Answer 1

A verb is an action word. Every sentence has one. For example:run, jump, play, turn, sit.....My dog runs fast. The verb tells you what the person, place or thing is doing.

Answer 2

A verb expresses an action or a state of being.
Most statements in speech and writing have a main verb.
EXAMPLES
The following verbs are expressed in their infinitive form:

to sing


to eat


to run

to travel


to be


to have

to intend


to feel


to paint

USE

Verbs are traditionally expressed along with the appropriate pronouns as follows:

Singular


Plural

I run


We run

You run


You run

He runs


They run

She runs


–

It runs


–
This is the conjugation of the verb 'to run'.
Verbs are expressed in tenses which place the statement in a point in time. Broadly speaking these are are the past, present, and future tense:

PAST


I ran


[yesterday]

PRESENT


I run


[today]

FUTURE


I shall run


[tomorrow]

The verbs 'to be' and 'to have' are the most commonly used auxiliary verbs and they work alongside the main verbs in any statement.

Verbs are doing words. This is a very simple definition, although it is valid for most normal purposes:

John went to the bank.
My mother arrives on Saturday.
Simple Simon met a pieman.

The verb is a very important part of the sentence. It is a necessary part of every fully expressed predicate - the part of the sentence which normally follows the subject.

The verb is the grammatical instrument which gives us information about the person or thing which is the subject.

Consider the following sentence:

Jane grasped the neckace with joy and placed it in the carved box.
We are given essential information here by means of two verbs - 'grasped' and 'placed'. They express the subject's physical and psychological attitude, and they also place the action in a temporal context by the fact that they are verbs in the past tense.
These verbs in this context are lexical items, even though they are also doing essential grammatical work. They are lexical in the sense that they are giving detailed information regarding the actions of the subject.

In other contexts, the verb does take a more mechanically grammatical role, as in the following sentence:

James is absolutely sure that Alice is the right choice for the executive post.

Here the verb 'to be' is used twice to express the information. The verb's function here is almost entirely grammatical rather than lexical. The lexical information is given by means of the two adverbs 'absolutely' and 'sure', the adverbial phrase 'right choice', and the phrase 'executive post'.

The verb 'is' puts the information in the present tense and facilitates the expression of James' state of mind.

Advertisers trade on the grammatical dynamism of the verb when space is at a premium. The following slogans all use the verb in a lexical mode, which places the focus on the action.

It's good to talk


British Telecom

Makes the going easy


British Rail slogan

Wash and go


shampoo ad

Pick up a Penguin


chocolate biscuits

The listening bank


Midland Bank ad

Road signs also need to be succinct, so verbs play a crucial part in the best known:

Keep left


Stop


Give way

All of these are strong imperatives. The recent 'Kill your speed' is not only imperative but emotive by the use of the word 'kill', here applied as a metaphor.

Verbs are employed to critical effect by poets. The following well known extracts show the powerful effect of the lexical verb.

My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense
As though of hemlock I had drunk one moment past
And Lethewards had sunk.
[JOHN KEATS]

Here 'aches' and 'pains' both in the present tense are strongly evocative of a listless state of being. The next active verb 'drunk' acts as a clear connection between the state of being and the possible cause, at the same time as shifting the action from the present to the hypothetical past. 'Sunk' completes the sequence by suggesting physical movement as a result of all the preceding verbal information.

Verbs can also be transformed into other grammatical functions and in many cases this results in an increased dynamism.

Adverbs


'Thats nice' he said mockingly, as she tried her best to pick up the broken vase.

Adjectives


The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.

Nouns


He always insisted on doing all his own washing.

Conversely, other parts of speech can be used as verbs. American English is replete with such usages, some of which have been assimilated into British English.

Young people now go 'clubbing' on Saturday evenings. 'Parenting' has now become the term for child-rearing. A recent court case in America revealed that the defendent had been 'incested'.

Answer 3

A doing word. The part of speech that expresses an action, a process, state or condition or mode of being.

Answer 4

"What are verbs?" "What is the definition of verbs in English grammar?"

The part of a written/spoken sentence that shows action, occurrence, or being.

Answer 5

It is a word indicating an action or a doing word. eg. bring, came,exsists.
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Answer 6

a word that shows action, like walk, jump, look.