Types of Verbs (with examples)

Miscellanea / by admin / November 29, 2021

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Types of verbs

There are different types of verbs, since these words are classified according to their ending, their conjugation, according to their meaning, according to whether they are composed with auxiliary verbs and according to their inflection. For instance: regular verbs, transitive verbs, simple verbs.

The verbs are words that refer to processes, actions and states and are usually the core of the predicate in the sentences or the core of the verb phrases. For instance: Yesterday I bought a backpack.

Verbs can appear conjugates in person, number, time, mode and aspect (I said say hello, think), but can also appear in non-personal ways (say, waving, done).

Types of verbs according to their ending

Verb ending is essential to determine how they are conjugated. There are three types of verbs according to the ending:

Types of verbs according to their conjugation

Verbs are conjugated in different ways depending on their ending, but there are verbs that are not regular because they undergo some modifications.

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Types of verbs according to their meaning

Depending on the meaning they have and according to their syntactic behavior, verbs can be:

Types of verbs according to their composition

Verbs can be classified according to whether they are conjugated in a single word or if they are conjugated with an auxiliary verb. According to this criterion they can be:

Types of verbs according to their inflection

Verbs can be classified according to whether they can be conjugated in all persons and verb tenses. According to this criterion they can be:

Examples of verb types

Examples of first conjugation verbs

Leave	Cook	to study
decorate	continue	invite
dance	decorate	play
walk	start	jump
to sing	to be	Sound

Examples of second conjugation verbs

understand	undertake	cough
know	understand	bring
sew	move	to worth
should	born	overcome
to depend	miss	sell

Examples of third conjugation verbs

acquire	tell	depart
assent	to sleep	prefer
shake	choose	to show off
to share	to write	produce
decide	beat	to laugh

Examples of regular verbs

to accept	assist	spread
advise	sweep	divide
alert	to drink	hide
applaud	cause	insist
learn	give	comb

Examples of irregular verbs

fall	induce	continue
lack	hear	be
to believe	to think	to have
deduct	put	bring
to be	get out	come

Examples of transitive verbs

to open	give	read
to drink	tell	clean up
to close	to write	to break
eat	listen	take
to buy	to study	greet

Examples of intransitive verbs

Appear	lack	born
yawn	run away	to laugh
shine	mourn	come
walk	to lie	to travel
exist	To die	to fly

Examples of copulative verbs

to be	to put on	resemble
to be made	to stay	be
seem	result	become
remain	continue	lie

Examples of predicative verbs

save money	wrap	look
learn	listen	paint
to close	like	to have
to hurt	read	sell
love	to get	to travel

Examples of reflexive verbs

snuggle	stand up	introduce oneself
fall down	look at each other	refer
wake	take care	backing out
fall sleep	be lost	sit down
hide	to put on	tripping

Examples of reciprocal verbs

embrace each other	cross	talk to each other
to love each other	say goodbye	hate each other
help	get angry	quarrel
get marry	be understood	forgive
meet	listen	give yourself away

Examples of auxiliary verbs

walk	start	continue
start	to be	be
continue	to have	to usually do
should	go to)	to have
jump into	carry	come

Examples of simple verbs

have lunch	there was	they sailed
dinner	will investigate	will participate
kitchen room	they washed	could
find	read	remembered
you were	they call	would jump

Examples of compound verbs

had won	would have considered	has been
They had lost	they would have bought	I've slept
have you seen	They have sought	we have preferred
will have requested	I have waited	would have spoken
will have sold	have discovered	would have saved

Examples of personal verbs

fell	Has swum	forget
concludes	he had decided	Will you participate
would believe	will have asked	they know
discover	has finished	lived
they started	I would have talked	they came back