Classifications of English Verbs.
According to their meaning and role performed in the sentence, verbs are divided into semantic, auxiliary, linking verbs and modal verbs:
Semantic verbs (the vast majority of verbs) express an action, process or state and can be used as a simple predicate.
Auxiliary verbs do not have an independent meaning and serve to form complex verb forms. These include: to be, to have, to do, shall (should), will (would).
I do not know this song.
Я не знаю эту песню.
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Linking verbs serve to form a compound nominal predicate (by themselves, they do not express action, but serve to connect the subject with the semantic part of the predicate and show the person, number and time). The main linking verb is the verb to be. In addition, verbs can perform the linking function: to become, to get, to grow, to turn - everything in the meaning of becoming, to look in the meaning of looking, and some others.
He is a professor.
Он профессор. (Он является профессором)
She looks gorgeous.
Она выглядит превосходно.
Modal verbs that express not the action itself, but the attitude of the speaker to the action. They are used with the infinitive of the semantic verb following them and show the possibility, probability, necessity, desirability of performing the action expressed by the infinitive. These include: can-могу (умею), may-могу (разрешается), must-должен, need-нужно, ought to-следовало бы и др.
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