Overview Of Regular And Irregular Verbs

What is a verb? Verb is probably if not for sure the most important part of speech in all human languages known. It’s a type of element that is crucial in forming a sentence and asking a question in the same time. So we can say that a verb is a part of speech that stands for words addressing on action, emotion or state. As I mentioned earlier they can differ on the fact whether they do an actual action or is that action more of an intellectual mental matter, an emotional or just a state that a person can be found into. So we can gladly say that verbs in general can be divided into: -physical verbs -mental verbs -state verbs

• Physical verbs are in fact action verbs. If you want to express anything your doing which can range from using your own body to move or perform anything to using a machine or tool to make and action, all this belongs to the list of action verbs. The list of these words is huge and we might mention some: eat, drive, play, cook, organize, watch, write, sing, act, wash, fix ect.
• Mental verbs are such verbs that correlate to the mental or cognitive activity that a subject performs. Some of the verbs that belong to this list are: think, know, recognize, believe ect.
• State verbs can be defines as verbs that refer to a condition or situation and they have nothing to do with action. A perfect way to explain this category is by using some examples: I am a teacher. They are ill. Types of verbs by function:
• Action verbs
• Stative verbs
• Auxiliary verbs
• Modal verbs
• Phrasal verbs
• Transitive verbs
• Intransitive verbs
• Irregular verbs

We will go through them in a deeper detail, providing a definition, examples and possible exceptions. Action verbsLike we have mentioned in the previous classification, the active verbs are verbs that perform an action. Due to the fact that previously we did an analysis on them on a deeper level, we will just mention them and go on explaining the next group of verbs which are: Stative verbs They differ from active because they rather express a state than an action. They are connected to emotions, state, thoughts. Great examples for stative verbs are: admire, appreciate, recognize, know, think, doubt, satisfy, imagine and so on.

However, there are exceptions where by only adding -ing form on a stative verb we get to loose meaning of the stative into a word with a totally different meaning. A perfect example for this situation can be: I see Betty on the corner (I see her with my own eyes) I am seeing Betty for a week now (I am dating her).