Category:English impersonal verbs: English verbs that do not indicate actions, occurrences or states of any specific grammatical subject.Category:English frequentative verbs: English verbs that express repeated action.Category:English ergative verbs: English intransitive verbs that become causatives when used transitively.Category:English ditransitive verbs: English verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states of two grammatical objects simultaneously, one direct and one indirect.Category:English defective verbs: English verbs that lack one or more forms in their inflections.Category:English copulative verbs: English verbs that may take adjectives as their complement.One of the control verb's arguments is syntactically both an argument of the control verb and an argument of the other verb. Category:English control verbs: English verbs that take multiple arguments, one of which is another verb.Use this only for separate verbs (as opposed to causative forms that are part of the inflection of verbs). Category:English causative verbs: English verbs that express causing actions or states rather than performing or being them directly.Category:English auxiliary verbs: English verbs that provide additional conjugations for other verbs.

Category:English verb forms: English verbs that are conjugated to display grammatical relations other than the main form.

Just by learning these fifty, your students will have prepared themselves for 87% of irregular verb use in English! There is another page showing the usual list of irregular verbs in English.Recent changes Recent additions to the categoryįundamental » All languages » English » Lemmas » VerbsĮnglish terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.įor more information, see Appendix:English verbs. This does not include the auxiliary verbs 'do' and 'have'.

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English verbs list