Theoretical Grammar LECTURE 10: VERB AS A PART OF SPEECH. 1.VERB AS A PART OF SPEECH - Verbs are used to express who we are and how we feel. A verb is a word that says something about a person or a thing. It indicates an action. It is used to describe such things as actions, happenings, thoughts, feelings, speech, and relationships. It normally follows a noun. A verb is a complex part of speech. It has various forms and functions; verbs in particular forms take on the characteristics of other parts of speech: we call these forms Verbal, and they can be turned into nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
There are various verbal forms: Infinitives, Gerunds, and Participle. - There are various verbal forms: Infinitives, Gerunds, and Participle.
- A verb shows an action (Except the verb to be). A verb tells us that some act has been carried out by the subject. Always forms a tense (past – present – future) A verb form shows the time of action or state (tense). A verb form shows duration of action (Aspect). A verb form shows speaker’s attitude (Mood). Always has a “subject”. No sentence is considered complete without a verb.
Words like to read, to live, to go, to jump are called verbs because of their following features. - Words like to read, to live, to go, to jump are called verbs because of their following features.
- 1.they express the meanings of action and state;
- 2.they have the grammatical categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood, order and posteriority most of which have their own grammatical means;
3. the function of verbs entirely depends on their forms: if they in finite form they fulfill only one function – predicate. But if they are in non-finite form then they can fulfill any function in the sentence but predicate; they may be part of the predicate; - 3. the function of verbs entirely depends on their forms: if they in finite form they fulfill only one function – predicate. But if they are in non-finite form then they can fulfill any function in the sentence but predicate; they may be part of the predicate;
- 4. verbs can combine actually with all the parts of speech, though they do not combine with articles, with some pronouns. It is important to note that the combinability of verbs mostly depends on the syntactical function of verbs in speech
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