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Finite Verb


  • Definition Finite Verb:
   also called a main verb.
   a verb that has a subject
   a verb that shows tense, person, and number
   can be the main verb in a sentence

  • Moods in Finite Verb:
A) Indicative mood (expressing a state of affairs)
Example: The coffee is hot.
B) Imperative mood (giving a command)
Example:  Make the coffee hot.
C) Subjunctive mood 
(expressing something that might or    might not be the state of affairs, depending on some other part of the sentence)
Example: If the coffee was hot, I would drink it.

  • How  to identify the finite verbs in a sentence:
A) Most finite verbs can take an -ed or a -d at the end of the word to indicate time in the past:
 Example: (cough)coughed (celebrate)celebrated.
B) Nearly all finite verbs take an -s at the end of the word to indicate the present when the subject of the verb is third-person singular:
Example: he coughs(cough) she celebrates(celebrate)  
The exceptions are auxiliary verbs like can and must. Remember that nouns can also end in -s. Thus the dog races can refer to a spectator sport or to a fast-moving third-person singular dog. 
C) Finite verbs surround their subjects when some forms of a question
    are asked
     Example:  Is he coughing? Did they celebrate?
D) Finite verbs are often groups of words that include auxiliary verbs
    Example:, can be suffering, must eat, will have gone.
E) Finite verbs usually follow their subjects:
    Example : He coughs. The documents had compromised him. They will have gone.

  • Kind of Finite Verb Transitive:
Is a verb that requires both a direct subject and one or more objects
Example : - You pushed the cart ("cart" is the direct object of "pushed")
                 -  I ate the pie ("pie" is an object of "ate")
  1. Intransitive
It is an action verb and has no direct object
Example : James went to the campus cafe for a steaming bowl of squid eyeball stew.
  1. Linking
Is a verb that is used to connect a subject with an adjective or noun that
describes or identifies the subject. The most common linking verb is be 
Example : The party was fantastic.

  • Definition NON – Finite Verb :
a non-finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is not limited by a subject and, more generally, is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such astense, aspect, mood, number, gender, andperson

  • Kind of Non finite verb Participles
participle is a verbal adjective that describes a noun as being a participant in
the action of the verb
Example: - The talking children angered the teacher. (Here talking modifies children.)
                -  Annoyed, Rita ate dinner by herself in the bedroom. (Here annoyed modifies Rita.

  1. Gerunds
gerund is a verbal noun that refers to the action of the verb
Example :  Fencing is good exercise. (Here fencing is the subject of is.)
            Leroy betrayed his team by charging. (Here charging is the object of by.)
  • Infinitives
Infinitive verb form is often introduced by the particle to, as in to eat or to
run. The resulting phrase can then function as a subject or object, or as a  Modifier
Example : 
                 - Carol was asked to speak. (Here to speak is the object of    
                   asked,comparable to Carol was asked a question.)

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