Verb
A verb refers to an action, event or state
Verb yapısında:
To be: durum belirtir.
Have /has got: aitlik
belirtir.
Tense: olaylar anlatılır.
Modal: duygu ve düşünceler
kullanılır.
A verb describes an action (bring, read, walk,
run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist,
stand).
We went home straight
after the show.
It snowed a lot last
winter.
Several different types of
volcano exist.
I washed the car yesterday.
The dog ate my homework.
John studies English and
French.
Lucy enjoys listening to
music.
The goat ate my
homework.
I work at a small
hotel.
Action
verbs can be used in the simple or continuous form.
I cleaned the room as quickly
as possible.
She’s watching television at
the moment.
Event verbs
can be used in the simple or continuous form.
Four people died in the
crash.
It’s raining again.
State
verbs are usually used in the simple form rather than the continuous form.
I don’t know the name of the
street.
Who owns this house?
Some verbs
can be used to talk about both states and actions, but with different meanings:
Do you see what I mean?
(understand)
I don’t see Rebecca at work anymore since I
moved office. (Meet)
Your dress looks nice.
(appear)
I never look at the price on the menu. (See with
your eyes)
Do not be
misled by a phrase that comes between the subject and the verb. The verb agrees
with the subject, not with a noun or pronoun in the phrase.
Henry with his friends has
left on a trip
to France.
A list of the names of all
survivors is
available.
The United Nations is one organization. (singular)
Predicate and verb
The predicate
is usually represented by a main verb or by the combination of an auxiliary or
modal verb with a main verb. The predicate stands after the subject and is
usually represented by a main verb or by the combination of an auxiliary or
modal verb with a main verb.
A simple predicate consists
of only a verb, verb string, or compound verb:
Their house was built
very quickly.
She became very
famous. (N + LV + adj)
She became a famous author.
(N + LV + NP)
The glacier melted, broke
apart, and slipped into the sea.
He has been working
for three years.
She is studying French
at a language school.
The children are reading
and writing new words.
She does not know him.
He hasn't bought a car
yet.
You shouldn't do it.
The simple predicate consists
of only the verb and its auxiliaries.
Virtually half of the
students failed the examination.
Especially /Particularly
these three girls are keen to enter the competition.
With the birth of the first
child, the married couple is faced with the responsibilities of rearing
children.
The fact that many children
suffer from this disease is due to lack of clean drinking water.
A postposition is used with
a verb and stands after it, forming an idiomatic phrase with this verb (phrasal verb). For example: come
in, get back, turn out, put on, break down, pick up, take off, think over.
Two main types of predicate are usually
described: the simple predicate and the complete predicate.
The simple predicate consists of only the verb
and its auxiliaries. The predicative is most often expressed by a noun or an
adjective:
Tom is a doctor.
Their house is large.
She looks ill.
Alex writes well. Alex is writing. Alex is writing a letter to his friend.
She has been sleeping since five o'clock.
The complete predicate consists of the verb and
its complements and modifiers that complete the meaning of the verb:
Her children have been playing in the
yard since morning.
The predicate consisting of coordinate verbs
(coordinate elements) is called a compound predicate:
The boy reads and writes every day.
She closed her book and looked at
me.
They ran after him but didn't catch him.
The
predicate that consists of homogeneous verbs (homogeneous parts) are regarded
as a simple predicate:
They sing and dance very
well.
He opened the door and went
out.
She looked at him but said
nothing.
A compound
predicate consists of two (or more) such predicates connected:
The glacier began to slip
down the mountainside and eventually crushed some of the village's outlying
buildings.
The
compound verbal predicate consists of the modal verb and the infinitive of the
main verb.
This type
of predicate is also called a modal predicate.
He can drive.
We must see her.
You should have told me.
Combinations of certain main verbs with the
infinitive are also included in the type "compound verbal predicate".
I want to see him.
She began to read.
He promised to visit us.
But we
regard the infinitive in such combinations as an object of the verb.
