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University: Blida Faculty: Science & Technology Department of ST

Level: 1st Year Module: English


Teacher in charge: Miss. Saadi

Verbs

The Outline of the Lesson


What is a verb ?
Types of verbs.
1-Auxiliary verbs.
2-Lexical verbs
 Transitive verbs
 Intransitive verbs
 Ditransitive verbs

What is a verb ?
It is one of the most important parts of the sentence. It tells us about the subject action.

Types of verbs:
There are two big categories of verbs

Lexical Vs Auxiliary Vs
To have/ to be
Modals( can, should, must...)

Transitive verbs
Intransitive verbs
Ditransitive verbs

Transitive verbs
The verb is transitive when it needs one complement which functions as direct object.

Example;
Amina loves cats

NP VP Noun functions as direct


Object

Sentence

Noun Phrase(NP) Verb Phrase(VP)

Amina Verb Noun


(proper noun)
Loves cats
Intransitive Verbs
The verb is intransitive when it does not need a complement.

Example
Nelson died last week.

NB;
Intransitive verb cannot be followed by an NP, however, it can be followed by an
adverb of time.

Ditransitive Verbs
The verb is ditransitive when it needs two NPs or complements to complete it (one
functions as direct object / the 2nd one functions as indirect.

NB.
The difference between direct object and indirect object
Direct object answers the question what?
Indirect object answers the question To whom? / To what?
Example
(William) (gave some flowers to Millie).
NP VP

Sentence

NP VP

V NP1 NP2

Gave some flowers to Millie


(Ditran) (D.O) ( I.D.O)

Activity; Identify the verb and its category. Identify all the major functions
 Amina offered me her new computer.
 The candidate’s mistakes amused the examiners.
 Sarah slept

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