{"id":71832,"date":"2019-08-28T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T08:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71832"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T08:33:46","slug":"verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The part of speech which contains words like see, arrive, sleep, discuss, ask, play, can and take off. Verbs are distinguished from other parts of speech by a number of properties.<\/p>\n<p>1. A verb can be marked for tense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I write a letter.<\/li>\n<li>She writes a letter.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote a letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. A verb can be preceded by an auxiliary verb.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am writing a letter.<\/li>\n<li>I have written a letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. A verb can form a gerund.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smoking is injurious to health.<\/li>\n<li>I like reading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. A verb can form a participle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been working.<\/li>\n<li>I have worked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most verbs refer to actions or states. Verbs are divided into two groups: lexical verbs and auxiliaries. Lexical verbs are further divided into intransitive and transitive verbs.<\/p>\n<h3>Transitive verbs<\/h3>\n<p>A label applied to a verb that can have an object.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<strong><em> sing, write, read, sink, ring, want, need etc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some verbs are always <strong>transitive<\/strong> and produce an ungrammatical result if used without an object. Among these are destroy, assassinate, want and trigger.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice wants a new car.<\/li>\n<li>The Mongols destroyed Kiev.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many other verbs can be either transitive or intransitive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intransitive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any verb that does not take an object is an intransitive verb. Examples are: sit, sleep etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The part of speech which contains words like see, arrive, sleep, discuss, ask, play, can and take off. Verbs are distinguished from other parts of speech by a number of properties. 1. A verb&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[854,919,888,822],"class_list":["post-71832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-intransitive-verb","tag-transitive-and-intransitive","tag-transitive-verb","tag-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71833,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71832\/revisions\/71833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}