What is a verb? And how do we use them? A quick & easy self study English grammar guide to verbs

This video is all about verbs. What are verbs? How do we use them? What are verb tenses? How do we conjugate verbs? Adam's Free English brings you this English Essentials guide to verbs. See our website for lots of free online video lessons on all aspects of English language.

Transcript:
What is a verb?
A verb is a doing word.
Examples – to write, to sleep, to do
A verb describes an action (to run, to write), or a state of being (to be).
Verbs are conjugated (changed) according to who is doing the verb (person), and when the verb is being done (tense).

Who is doing the verb?
(Person)
In English, there are three persons:
first person, second person, and third person.
First person - I, we… (I run, we play)
Second person – You... (You push, you hear)
Third person – He/she, they... (he/she creates, they fight)

How many people are doing the verb? (Number)
A singular verb is when only one person is doing the verb.
A plural verb is when more than one person is doing the verb.

Tenses (When is it being done?)
In English, there are many tenses, including four simple tenses:
present, past, present perfect and future.

Present tense - happening now.
Past tense - happened in the past (and is now finished).
Present perfect tense - happened in the past and continues to have an effect on the present.
Future tense - will happen in the future.

Regular and irregular verbs
Not all verbs conjugate in the same way.
Study an irregular verbs list to see how irregular verbs conjugate.
Examples – (irregular verbs)
buy, bought, bought.
bring, brought, brought.
catch, caught, caught.
do, did, done.
eat, ate, eaten.
fall, fell, fallen.

So what have we learnt?
Verbs are doing words.
Verbs conjugate (change) according to who is doing it (I, you, he, she..), and when it is being done (past, present, future..).
There are regular and irregular verbs.

Self-study exercises:
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