1St grade verbs list

List of Verbs for Kids

A verb is a word that conveys ACTION, OCCURRENCE, or STATE OF BEING. Verbs are needed to form complete sentences or questions. In a sentence, a verb works as the main component of the predicate, the part of a sentence that indicates what the subject (person or thing) is or does. The three main types of verbs are action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs. Unlike most of the other parts of speech, verbs change their form. Pair our lists of verbs for kids with our fun verb online games for engaging practice!

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Verbs Tenses

A verb tense shows when the action in the sentence takes place. In English, there are a total of 12 verb tenses, as well as conditional tenses that indicate when an action may or may not happen.

The three main tenses on lists of verbs for kids are:

• Past – an action has already happened
• Present – an action is currently happening
• Future – an action will happen at a later time

Verbs are conjugated to communicate details, such as person, number, gender, tense or mood. The following table shows the verb “walk” conjugated to the three main verb forms with the subject being “I”.

A verb like “walk” is a regular verb because it follows set rules when conjugated (adding -ed to indicate past tense, for example). Irregular verbs, however, are verbs that do not follow the rules for changing tense. For instance,the verb “sing” is an irregular verb. It does not follow the rule for past tense verbs as “sanged,” but rather as the irregular conjugation “sang.”

Types of Verbs

Not all verbs serve the same function. Verbs fall into three basic categories: action, linking, and helping.

Action Verbs

Action verbs describe something that a person, animal, thing, or force of nature can do. Verbs like run or jump are examples of action verbs.

Linking Verbs

Linking verbs do not describe an action, but tell about the state or condition of subjects. They link the subject with either a noun that renames it or an adjective that describes it. For example, the word “am” in the sentence “I am tall” describes the subject. There are some action verbs that function as linking verbs, such as grow. In the sentence “He grows tired,” the verb describes the subject rather than an action, so it works as a linking verb. Below are a list of other linking verbs.

Helping Verbs

Helping verbs do not express action, and they cannot stand alone in a sentence without another verb present. They are part of verb phrases that “help” the main verb. Helping verbs define the tense (past, present, future) or change the meaning of the main verb. The verb “will” functions as a linking verb in the sentence “He will eat” because it helps the main verb “eat” and indicated a future tense. Some common helping verbs:

The following table shows 50 common English verbs conjugated in the past, present, and future tense using the subject “I.” These are commonly found on lists of verbs for kids.

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Linking Verb Practice List - Linking Verbs for Kids

As the name suggests, linking verbs work as a link between the subject (who or what the sentence is about) and information about the subject. Unlike action verbs, linking verbs do not express action, but rather serve as a way of connecting the subject of the sentence to a noun or connecting it to a description of the subject. Studying our common linking verb pracatice lists can help students gain a strong understanding of how different types of verbs function.

The most common linking verbs are “to be” verbs, for example is, are, was, and were. Other common linking verbs include “to become” and “to seem”. These verbs are true linking verbs, as they always function as a linking verb. See below for true linking verbs examples:

Some action verbs double as linking verbs, like “grow” and “look”. In the sentence “He looks tired,” the verb “looks” provides information about the subject and works as a linking verb. Whereas in the sentence “He looks at the dog,” “looks” refers to an action made by the subject, therefore serving as an action verb. To determine whether a verb is serving as a linking verb, substitute it with a “to be” verb, like “is.” If the sentence makes sense with the substitution, it is a linking verb.

Other Linking Verbs Examples
Verb	Example
grow	She grows tired.
feel	The fabric feels soft.
look	She looks sad.

Below is a list of common linking verbs. Access additional example linking verb practice lists with VocabularySpellingCity. Word lists can be imported and later paired with engaging learning linking verb practice games and activities. VocabularySpellingCity is your source for games, activities, lists, and all other things about linking verbs for kids!

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55 English verbs you need to know to "survive"

This collection will be extremely useful for everyone who starts learning English on their own, and for those whose level of knowledge of the language is somewhere at the initial step. I tried to choose the most necessary English verbs. Of course, this list can and should be expanded, but that's a completely different story. Everything has its time.

My task was to prepare for you a list of English verbs for "survival" - ie. to help you understand basic English. nine0003

If you are just starting to learn English, this list will be more than ever helpful. All verbs are given in their initial form - the infinitive. Many verbs have more than one meaning, so I give only the very first one, you can look up the rest of the meanings in the dictionary if you are interested.

Fundamental English verbs

• Be – be
• Have - have
• Do - do
• Make - make
• Get - get
• Take - take
• Try - try
• Know - know
• Think - think
• Feel - feel
• See
• Give - give
• Bring - bring
• Buy - buy
• Cost - cost (about the price)
• Break - destroy
• Put
• Eat - eat (eat)
• Sleep - sleep
• Drink - drink
• Understand
• Write - write
• Read
• Speak
• Tell - tell
• Meet - meet
• Teach - teach
• Learn
• Send – send

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• Forget - forget
• Dream - dream
• Pay - pay
• Sell - sell
• Call - call
• Play – play
• Drive - drive a car
• Travel - travel
• Start - start
• Stop - stop
• Need
• Use - use
• Can - to be able (to be able)
• Clean - clean
• Help - help
• Run - run
• Cook - cook food
nine0013 Open - open
• Close
• Move – move
• Sing - sing
• Swim - swim
• Dance - dance
• Work - work

Having learned these English verbs and set phrases, you will be able to understand everyday English in an elementary way, that is, you will need these basic knowledge at first. Further it is worth deepening knowledge and learning more English verbs. nine0003

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Necessary stable phrases

There are times when self-study of a language comes to a standstill, you simply cannot force yourself to sit down and open a book, or some material remains incomprehensible.

In this case, I advise you to contact tutors who know how to help you learn a new language, give you the right direction, explain complex material.

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By the way, if you have a question about English, feel free to write to me and I will be happy to give you an answer.

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140 regular verbs in English

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Hey, what's up? Verbs in English are divided into two groups: regular and irregular. Irregular have a special second and third form of the past tense. This list just needs to be learned, and a huge number of collections and tables can be found on the Internet. We also had an article about them .

Contents of the article:

• Rules for adding endings
• List of regular verbs

And today we'll talk about the correct ones, those to which is added in the past tense ending ed .

In all cases, the ending ed is added. But this is not always enough. There are several options.

1. The simplest case - the ending is simply added at the end after the consonant. Brush — brush ed . Consider—consider ed .

2. If there is already an "e" at the end (or even two), we just add d. Arrive-arrive d . Agree - agree d .

3. In verbs that end in "y", this letter is changed to "i". Study - stud ied . Cry - cr ied . But if there is a vowel before "y" in the infinitive, then the substitution is cancelled. Play - pla yed .

4. If the verb ends with one hard consonant preceded by one vowel, then the consonant is doubled if the last syllable is stressed. Drop—drop ped . Refer - refer red . The rule may seem complicated, but over time you will begin to feel it intuitively.

5. If the last letter is "l", then in British English it is always doubled, but in American it is only doubled when the last syllable is stressed. Cancel - led /cance lled .

6. And if the last "x" is not doubled anywhere and never. Fix - fix ed .

There are many rules, but they are very important, and it is imperative to remember them. nine0003

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