Question

The driver parked the car carefully and got out. ( Pick out the verb from the sentence)

Answer 1

Answer:

Verb - Parked and got out

Explanation:

Answer 2

Given:

Pick out the verb from the sentence:

• The driver parked the car carefully and got out.

Answer:

• The driver parked the car carefully and got out.

Explanation:

In the above sentence, the highligted/underlined words are verbs as they show something has done. Because a verb is a doing, helping and a action word.

★Defining a Verb:-

A Verb is a word that denotes an action or being or possession.

Read the following sentences.

1. Mary put the cups on the table. (action)
2. The bowler throws the ball to the batsman. (action)
3. This river is quite shallow. (being)

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★Auxiliary Verbs

An Auxiliary Verb is a helping verb. Auxiliary Verbs are twenty-four in number. They are: is, am, are, was, were (to be), do, does, did (to do), have, has, had (to have), shallwill, should, would, can, could, may, might, must, ought to, need, dare, used to (Modal Auxiliaries)

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★Object of the Verb

Read those sentences and the questions that follow them.

1. The hunter killed the lion. killed what? - the lion.

• The lion is the Object of the Verb killed.

2. He helps the poor. helps whom? - the poor

• The poor is the object of the verb helps.

If we frame a question using the Verb and the word what or whom, the word that answers the question is the object of the Verb.

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A Verb, in different senses, can be Transitive, Intransitive or Incomplete.

Here are a few examples:

1. I felt the stones under my feet. (Transitive)

2. The dead cannot feel. (Intransitive)

3. We all felt sad at the bad news. (Link)

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★Kinds of Verbs

There are two kinds of Verbs: Transitive and Intransitive.

★Transitive verbs

A Verb that requires an Object to complete its meaning (sense) is called a Transitive Verb

Note the use of Verbs in the following sentences.

1. The woman filled the pail with water.
2. The soldiers fired their guns.

★Intransitive Verbs

A Verb that does not require an Object to complete its meaning (sense) is called an Intransitive Verb.

For example:-

1. He kneeled to pray.
2. People crowded to see the king.

★Incomplete Verbs:-

Verbs that complement are called Link Verbs or Verbs of incomplete Predication .

• Link Verbs are very few in number. The most common Link Verb is be which has various forms: am, is, are, was, were, being, been. and become. Other Common Link Verbs are appear, seem ,tall go, keep, and sound are also Link Verbs. In some contexts, words like feel, grow, look, taste, turn, smell, prove, come,