Types of Verbs Quiz

Types of Verbs

• Action Verbs: These verbs describe physical or mental actions. Examples include: persuade, decide, avoid, teach, keep on, risk, attempt, manage, consider, recommend, appear, remind, force, tell, ask, involve, offer, deny, fail, keep, carry on, help, postpone, beg, invite, encourage, order, plan, finish, refuse, warn, put off, dare, learn, enjoy, want, give up, admit, hope, delay, imagine, mind, would like.

Additional Verb Categorization

• Mental Verbs: Verbs expressing mental actions or states of mind. Examples include: decide, consider, recommend, remember, forget, imagine, hope, expect, fancy, believe, understand, know, think, feel.

• State of Being/Existence Verbs: Verbs indicating a state or condition rather than an action. Examples include: appear, seem, exist, be, become, seem.

• Helping/Auxiliary Verbs: Verbs that help to complete the main verb. Examples include: can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must.

• Modal Verbs: Specific type of auxiliary verb expressing ability, permission, obligation, or possibility. For example: can, could, will, would, should, may, might, must, ought to.

• Phrasal Verbs: Verbs that combine a verb and a preposition or adverb to form a new meaning. Examples include: keep on, put off, give up, carry on, look after, take care of, etc. These often have multiple meanings that can extend beyond those of each component.

• Irregular Verbs: Verbs with irregular conjugations (past tense and past participle forms that do not follow regular patterns of adding -ed or -ing). These will require individual memorization of conjugations. (Note: A complete list of irregular verbs is required to be specifically applicable here.)

• Transitive Verbs: Verbs that take a direct object. Example: "She told a story," "He helped her," "She persuaded him".

• Intransitive Verbs: Verbs that do not take a direct object. Examples include these: "She felt sick," "It rained".

• Dynamic Verbs: Verbs implying change, development, or action.

• Stative Verbs: Verbs expressing a state or condition rather than an action.

• Phrasal Verbs: Some verbs above in the list are phrasal: keep on, risk, put off, can't stand, would like, carry on, etc

• Common Errors: Often, miscategorization and misunderstandings of verb types occur, usually in distinguishing action verbs from state of being verbs, or mixing up their use.