Verbs

What are verbs? Verbs are words that express action in a sentence.

               John runs in the park.

Verbs are classified in three categories:

               1. Action verbs
               2. Linking verbs
               3. Helping verbs

The Action Verb tells what action is performing, has performed or will perform the subject of the sentence.

               For example:

               The little girl talks with her friends in the school. The action in this sentence is talking.

The Linking Verb connects the subject of the sentence with a noun or an adjective in the predicate. The work of this type of verb is to be a bridge between the subject and the predicate.

Also the predicate modifies the subject and it act as a modifier or adjective. This kind of predicate is called Nominative Predicate.

The most common linking verbs are:

Is, are, was, were, been, being, am, appear, become, feel, grow, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn.


                 For example:

                 My mother is beautiful.

                 The car of my father seems very old.


                  This kind of flower smells good during spring.

The Helping Verb assists the main verb in a sentence. It is also know as the auxiliary verb, the one who help to reflect the time of the action.

                 For example:

                The police man has been watching the area. Main verb: watch

                I am going to be in the cafeteria. Main verb: to be

                We shall not do our homework in school. Main verb: do

The common helping verbs are: am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, has, had, have, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would.


 Curious Note: Do you know these verbs in Spanish?

The linking verbs in Spanish are know as: “Verbos Copulativos”. The most common of these verbs are: “Ser, estar, parecer”. We had learned that the predicate that goes after the linking verbs is know as the Nominative Predicate, and in Spanish it is called “Atributo”, because it modifies the subject.

Examples:

El conductor es mi amigo.


Mi abuela está vieja.


Miguel parece confundido.

Adjectives

What are adjectives? Adjectives are words used to modify a noun or a pronoun. More poetically they are "decorations for the language". If the adjetives did not exist, the language will be bored and without sense.

Example: Panama has beautiful green mountains with cristalline rivers and tall green trees.

If we quit the adjectives from this sentence it will sound different:

               Panama has mountains with rivers and trees.

Without adjectives, this sentence sounds bored and without life.

Remember that the adjectives qualifies the nouns and the pronouns and they can come before or after them. In this sentence, these are the words being modified:

               adjectives                        nouns
              beautiful green -------> mountains
              cristalline ------------> rivers
              tall grenn ------------> trees

Also the adjectives answers the questions: What kind? How many? How much? Which one(s)? The tall one, three of them, the pretty one, the old one, the green one, etc.

Order of adjectives

In a sentence, it is appropiate and advisable that the adjectives go in this order:

Determiners, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose... Noun
Example: The elegant big round table
               A white Chinese tiger
               The small young Panamanian kid

It is important to know that adjectives are an open class of words, so that means that every time someone is inventing a new adjetive, maybe from new technology words or new types of materials.

Try different types of adjectives in every sentence that you write or say and you will see the difference.

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