Verb Full Form
What is a Verb From?
Mainly, verbs are used in sentences to represent the action done by a subject in English. There are five types of verbs. We will be discussing all of them in detail.
What's the verb form?
The verb form is like perfectly modifying a verb so that it can be used perfectly for showing the action done by a subject in the sentence.
There are five types of verbs, and they are as follows:
Root verb
Third-person singular present form of the verb
Present participle
Simple past
Past participle.
- What is a Verb From?
- What's the verb form?
- Root verb with examples
- Third person singular present form with examples
- Present participle form of the verb with examples
- Simple past form of the verb with examples
- Past participle form of the verb with examples
Root verb with examples
When a verb is used in its original form without any change, then it can be called a root verb.The root verb is one of the basic verbs from which other verbs are formed in types of verbs, but it cannot be done for all; it can only be done for regular verbs. Mostly, the root verbs are used in simple present sentences. Let's look at some examples of root verbs.
Examples of Root Verbs:
I love eating pizza with my family. (Root verb – love).
I finish my laundry before 10 a.m. every day. (Root verb – finish)
You are intelligent (Root verb – are).
The following verbs in the examples above, such as love, are, and finish, are in their original forms, thus these verbs are considered root verbs.
Third person singular present form with examples
When the sentence is in the simple present tense, the verb used in these sentences is in the third person singular present tense. We have to add "s"or "es" at the end of root verbs to get a third-person singular present form.
Some of the examples of
The following is the third person singular present form:
Her father likes her daughter the most.
The root verb is "like," and the third person singular form is "likes."
Shifa teaches Arabic to people who are not Arabs.
Root verb – "teach," Third person singular form – "teach."
My mother cooks food daily
Root verb – cook; third-person singular form –” cooks.”
Present participle form of the verb with examples
If we add “ing” at the end of the root verb, then we will get the third type of verb, which is the present participle form of the verb. In most cases, if the root verb ends with the letter “e” then to convert the root verb to the present participle form of the verb, we remove the “'e” and put “ing” at the end of the root verb.
The following are some examples of the verb's present participle form:
Read - Reading
Run - Running
Cook - Cooking
Eat - Eating
Learn - Learning
Simple past form of the verb with examples
When an action occurred in the past, we use the simple past form of the verb rather than representing it in a sentence. For forming these types of verbs from root verbs, we usually add “ed” at the end of the root verbs, but there are many irregular verbs that don't follow the same rule.
Some of the examples of the simple past form of the verb are as follows:
Regular verbs in the simple past form
Play - Played
Agree - Agreed
Like - Liked
Escape - Escaped
Try - Tried
Irregular verb forms
Arise - Arose
Awake - Awoke
Be - Was/Were
Bear - Bore
Become - Became
Past participle form of the verb with examples
When we want to represent the sentences in the perfect tense, the last type of verb, i.e., the past participle form of the verb, is used. The following are some examples of the verb's past participle form:
Root Verb | Simple Past | Past Participle |
Throw | Threw | Threw |
Cut | Cut | Cut |
Choose | Chose | Chosen |
Ring | Rang | Rung |
Buy | Bought | Bought |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
When a verb is modified in such a way that it can be perfectly used for representing the action of the subject in a sentence, it's known as a “verb form.”
There are five types of verb forms in English.
The root verb is considered the basis of all other verb forms.
The root verb, the third-person singular present form of the verb, the present participle, the simple past, and the past participle are the five types of verb forms in English.
In English, verbs are used to represent the action of a subject in a sentence.