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Are Verbs important? Why/ why not? TRUE or FALSE? The English verb has only 2 forms. Right answer: It has 3 forms: The Infinitive, the Gerund & the.

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3 Are Verbs important? Why/ why not?

4 TRUE or FALSE? The English verb has only 2 forms. Right answer: It has 3 forms: The Infinitive, the Gerund & the Participle

5 a) How are the 3 Verb Forms used? e.g. I play, I am playing I want to play While playing, I hurt myself

6 b) How are the 3 Verb Forms used? e.g. I was happy when I got your e-mail I was happy to get your e-mail.

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8 TRUE or FALSE? Main OR Finite Verbs = the backbone of a sentence, limited by number, person, voice, mood and tense.

9 TRUE or FALSE? Auxiliary OR Helping Verbs = aids of Main ones responsible for changing Moods in a sentence. Right answer: aids of Main verbs in forming the tenses (BE, HAVE, DO).

10 TRUE or FALSE? Modal Verbs= further aids of both Main and Auxiliary ones and responsible for changing Moods within a sentence.

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12 What are Transitive Verbs?

13 What are Intransitive Verbs?

14 Can verbs be both Transitive & Intransitive?

15 Can Intransitive verbs have Transitive uses?

16 What are Double-Object Verbs?

17 What are the 2 possible constructions of Double-Object Verbs?

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19 A verb’s ‘number’ All of the above focuses on the action must come before the subject shifts the focus of the sentence is obvious by the person & the verb ending(s)

20 A verb’s ‘Person’ OR ‘Subject’ can be: a noun phrase in the nominative case a noun clause a gerund/ gerund phrase a common or proper noun/ a pronoun all of the following choices

21 TRUE or FALSE? Voice= form of the verb that shifts the focus of the sentence.

22 TRUE or FALSE? There are 4 Main Voices in English. Right answer: 2 - Active & Passive (& a kind of Middle Voice).

23 Match to the right definition by clicking in turn on the right yellow shape: Active Voice Middle Voice I Passive Voice Middle Voice II Moods show fact, non-fact, orders, etc focuses on action & object focuses on ‘who’ has the action returning to the subject can be formed by -self pronouns

24 What does the ‘Infinitive Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List give?

25 How is the ‘Past Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List used?

26 And the ‘Participle Column’?

27 TRUE or FALSE? Double Participle Verbs= transitive verbs with two objects. Right answer: verbs with two participle forms: one for the perfect and passive tenses & one used as adjective, predicate or suffix in compound adjectives.

28 What are the 2 participle forms of the following verbs?

29 work: wrought, worked drink: drunken, drunk load: laden, loaded get: gotten, got rot: rotten, rotted knit: knit, knitted sink: sunken, sunk shave: shaven, shaved shrink: shrunken, shrunk strike: stricken, struck clothe: clad, clothed light: lighted, lit swell: swollen, swelled

30 What are the spelling rules for the ‘3 rd person singular of the Present’?

31 What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-s ending of the 3 rd person singular of the Present’?

32 What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?

33 What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?

34 What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ing ending of the Gerund & the Present Participle’?


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