VERBS

Verbs are broadly divided into two classes:

1.      Auxiliary verbs.

2.      Lexical verbs.

Auxiliary verbs are the type of verbs that usually help the main or lexical verb to make meaningful sense while lexical verb are the action or doing words.

Generally, examples of verb are:

Is,

Am,

Come,

Eat, etc.

Features of verbs

#1. All verbs are majorly categorized into two groups:

Auxiliary and lexical verbs

#2. Verbs are the most important grammatical elements in every English speech. In other words, without verbs, we cannot make complete sense with English sentences. Therefore, verbs are vocalic element, i.e. the nucleus of English speech.

For examples:

Ade [goes] to school.

I [love] eating rice.

Without the words in parentheses, the above speeches are meaningless.

 Let’s try these:

                        Ade […] to school

                        I […] eating rice

#3 No other part of speech can be substituted for verbs in English grammar. It won’t make sense. Let’s check these up:

                        He [plays] football always

                        She [beats] my imagination

Okay, let’s try to use words from adjectives to substitute for the above verbs in parentheses. Say beautiful and clever:

                        He [beautiful] football always

                        She [clever] my imagination

Does it make sense at all? No. It sounds horrible! That’s to show you cannot replace verbs with any other part of speech as we do for nouns and pronouns.