VERBS
A verb is a kind of word (part of speech) that tells
about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence
has a verb. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show
past or present tense.
Every language in the world has verbs, but they are
not always used in the same ways. They also can have different properties in
different languages. For example, in some other languages (e.g., Chinese &
Indonesian) verbs do not change for past and present tense. This means the
definition above only works well for English verbs.
This is sentence about verbs :
1. Mr
Ikhsan will buy something at
giant supermarket
2. Rio
saw the children cross the
street
3. Febrian
made his wife feel happy all
the time
4. Don’t
let me go, please !
5. We
will watch her sing a song
tomorrow.
Verbs can be modified by various modifiers, mainly
adverbs. Note that verbs generally do not need modifiers; it's usually a
choice. Verbs also commonly take a
variety of other modifiers including prepositions.
This is sentence about modifier :
1. The boy ran quickly.
2. The freely swinging rope hit him.
3. Someone is not so suffrering if he has been totally
blind since he was born.
4. Jakarta is largely inhabited with the
people from different ethnic group
5. My friends sometimes talk fast but carefully.
Tense is mainly used to say when the verb happens:
in the past, present, or future. In order to explain and understand tense, it
is useful to imagine time as a line on which past tense, present tense and
future tense are positioned. Some languages have all three tenses, some have
only two, and some have no tenses at all. English and Japanese for example have
only two tenses: past and present. Chinese and Indonesian verbs do not show
tense. Instead they use other words in the sentence to show when the verb
happens.
This is sentence about tenses:
1. Agnes
always teaches English at SMA 8 everday (simple present tense)
2. The
children are playing now (present continuous tense)
3. I
have done my homework already (present perfect tense)
4. Mrs
Sofrida went to Depok yesterday (simple past tense)
5. I
had watched TV before I slept (past perfect tense)
reference : http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb
