{"id":73838,"date":"2020-04-06T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73838"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:20:00","slug":"what-are-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Verbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A verb is a word which tells us what a person or a thing is doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>ran\u00a0<\/b>fast.<\/li>\n<li>The birds\u00a0<b>flew\u00a0<\/b>away.<\/li>\n<li>John\u00a0<b>opened\u00a0<\/b>the can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the verbs\u00a0<b>ran, flew\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>opened<\/b>\u00a0tell us what the nouns\u00a0<b>he, birds\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>John\u00a0<\/b>do. A verb is the most important word in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Now read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>is<\/b>\u00a0a good girl.<\/li>\n<li>There\u00a0<b>are<\/b>\u00a0fifty students in the class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the verbs\u00a0<b>is<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>are<\/b>\u00a0tell us not about an action, but about a state of being or existence.<\/p>\n<p>Now look at the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>have\u00a0<\/b>a house in the city.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>has<\/b>\u00a0two children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the verbs\u00a0<b>have<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>has<\/b>\u00a0indicate possession.<\/p>\n<p>Thus we find that a\u00a0<b>verb<\/b>\u00a0is a word that tells us about an action, a state of being or existence, or possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A verb is a word which tells us what a person or a thing is doing. He\u00a0ran\u00a0fast. The birds\u00a0flew\u00a0away. John\u00a0opened\u00a0the can. Here the verbs\u00a0ran, flew\u00a0and\u00a0opened\u00a0tell us what the nouns\u00a0he, birds\u00a0and\u00a0John\u00a0do. A verb is the&#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":[2553,822],"class_list":["post-73838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-english-verbs","tag-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838","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=73838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73839,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838\/revisions\/73839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}