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| a word that is used to express action or a state of being |
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| consists of at least one main verb and one or more helping verbs |
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| helping verb (auxillary verb) |
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| helps the main verb express action or a state of being |
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| expresses either physical or mental action |
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| connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies the subject |
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| a verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, or thing |
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| expresses action (or tells something about the subject) without the action passing to a reciever or object |
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| can, could, did, do, does, had, has, have, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, is, are, am |
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| write, remember, kick, run, type, read, eat |
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| be, is, am, are, can be, has been, should be, were, was, should have been, appear, become, feel, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn |
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| transitive verb example sentence |
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| intransitive verb example sentence |
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| Last Saturday we stayed inside. |
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