{"id":73708,"date":"2020-04-04T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73708"},"modified":"2020-04-04T05:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:45:25","slug":"be-as-an-ordinary-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-as-an-ordinary-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Be As An Ordinary Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be is used both as a principal verb and as an <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/primary-auxiliary-verbs\/\">auxiliary verb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Be as a principal verb<\/h3>\n<h3>Linking verb<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-as-an-auxiliary-verb\/\"><b>Be\u00a0<\/b>and its forms (is, am, are, was and were)<\/a> are usually used to link the subject with a following word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>an advocate.<\/li>\n<li>Mary\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>very intelligent.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>are\u00a0<\/b>wonderful.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>was\u00a0<\/b>angry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>To express a command or request<\/h3>\n<p><b>Be\u00a0<\/b>can be used to express a command or request.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Be\u00a0<\/b>quite.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t\u00a0<b>be\u00a0<\/b>silly.<\/li>\n<li><b>Be\u00a0<\/b>off.<\/li>\n<li><b>Be\u00a0<\/b>a good girl.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Special uses of Be<\/h3>\n<p><b>Be<\/b>\u00a0is used in a number of expressions about physical feelings (hunger, thirst etc.) and physical conditions (age, size, colour etc.).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>am\u00a0<\/b>Manju.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>25.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>an architect.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>are\u00a0<\/b>happy.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>cold today.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>am\u00a0<\/b>thirsty.<\/li>\n<li><b>Are\u00a0<\/b>you hungry?<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>very cold.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>tall.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>is\u00a0<\/b>fair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Structures with Be<\/h3>\n<h3>Be + infinitive<\/h3>\n<p>Be can be followed by a\u00a0to-infinitive. This structure is used to talk about plans and arrangements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I<b>\u00a0am to meet\u00a0<\/b>him tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>is to arrive\u00a0<\/b>soon.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>are to get\u00a0<\/b>married next month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Be + infinitive\u00a0<\/b>can also be used to give commands or orders.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>are to finish\u00a0<\/b>your homework before you go to bed.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>are to sit<\/b>\u00a0in that corner and keep quiet.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>are not to misbehave\u00a0<\/b>with the servants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Be + perfect infinitive<\/h3>\n<p>A perfect infinitive (to have + past participle) can be used after\u00a0<b>be\u00a0<\/b>to show that a planned event did not happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>were to have been married\u00a0<\/b>last month, but had to postpone the marriage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Be + passive infinitive<\/h3>\n<p><b>Be+ passive infinitive\u00a0<\/b>(to be + past participle) is often used in notices and instructions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This medicine\u00a0<b>is to be taken\u00a0<\/b>twice daily.<\/li>\n<li>The sticker on this bottle\u00a0<b>is not to be removed.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>This book is not to be resold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be is used both as a principal verb and as an auxiliary verb. Be as a principal verb Linking verb Be\u00a0and its forms (is, am, are, was and were) are usually used to link&#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":[858,2462,2463],"class_list":["post-73708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-auxiliary-verb","tag-be","tag-be-as-an-auxiliary-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708","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=73708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73713,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708\/revisions\/73713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}