English Verbs

This essential guide to verbs will vastly improve your writing skills and success. Verbs are the most essential words as they represent actions and feelings when writing or speaking, without them sentences do not work. Very skilled use of verbs will bring your language to the next level in school, boosting essay grades and test scores. Our author and English professor expertly organized the details of verb use, the types of verbs, how they work and when to use them with so many examples that you can be sure to see skilled verb use in action. In 6 colorful, durably laminated pages and at this low price for a tool that offers so much understanding and improvement, buying this guide is a no brainer to ensure anyone excels as a student and beyond.

6 page laminate guide includes: Verb Basics Finite Verbs (Main Verbs) Nonfinite Verbs (Verbals) The Five Properties of Verbs Person Number Tense Voice Mood Conjugation Regular VerbsExample Tense Form TableIrregular Verbs Example Tense Form TableTypes of Verbs Action vs. Linking Transitive vs. Intransitive Phrasal Verbs Auxiliaries & Modal Auxiliaries Infinitives Participles Gerunds A Change in Time: Controlling Shifts in Tense Same Time of Action Change in Time Verb Tense in Academic Writing Use Present Tense Use Past Tense Use Future Tense Rules for Tense Shifts Voice in Academic Writing Use Active Voice Example PassageUse Passive Voice Example PassageTable of Active Verbs for Types of EssaysUsing Verbs to Introduce SourcesVerb Examples - Table of Reporting Verb UseVerb Examples - Table of what Reporting Verbs May be Followed byVerb Choice in Creative WritingDescriptive Verbs Descriptive Verb Examples TableVerb Tense in Creative Writing Use Present Tense - with Example PassagesUse Past Tense - with Example Passages