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
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")
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.
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.
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.)
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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