Chapter 28 Chapter TwentyEight Additional Information about Verbs
Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty-Eight Additional Information about Verbs College Writing Skills, 5 E and College Writing Skills with Readings, 5 E John Langan College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Additional Information about Verbs Here are three areas we’ll discuss in this section: • Verb Tense • Helping Verbs • Verbals College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verb Tense. . . tells you the time of the action. Let’s start with the simple • present, • past, and • future. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Present Tense The present tense tells you that something is happening now. Example: ? Tom counts the sparrows. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Past Tense The past tense tells you that something happened before. Example: Sally counted the sparrows yesterday. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Future Tense The future tense tells you that something will happen later. Example: Tom and Sally will count the sparrows next weekend. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verb Tense We can be a little more specific about time using these other tenses: • Perfect Tense (Add a form of the verb “have”) • Progressive Tense (Add a form of the verb “be”) • Perfect Progressive Tense (Add both the verbs “have” and “be. ”) College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Helping Verbs Which brings us to the subject of helping verbs. There are three verbs that can both stand alone and help other verbs: College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Helping Verbs Used Alone Used as Helping Verbs I was busy. Mary has the floor. He did a bad thing. I was getting tired. Mary has stepped in it. He did love her. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Helping Verbs Let’s review for a minute: I was getting tired. Analysis: verb “be” used as helper = progressive, and past tense of verb “be” = past progressive. Mary has stepped in it. Analysis: verb “have” used as helper = perfect, and present tense of verb “have” = present perfect. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Helping Verbs There also nine helping verbs called that are always used together to help other verbs. Let’s look at a chart: College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Helping Verbs Can Could May Might Shall Should Will Would Must I can hope, can’t I? I could eat more, I suppose. Roger may be detained. You might regret that tattoo, Jerry. I shall see if there’s another room, sir. John should get his head examined. William will want to wander around a bit. Glasses would help, I think. You must take your feet off that rug, Marty. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verbals are words formed from verbs. There are three kinds: • Infinitives • Participles • Gerunds College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verbals An is “to” + “steal” = formed by adding “to steal” the word “to” to the base form of Example: the verb. Jesse James loved to steal money What is the infinitive from bankers. of the verb “steal”? College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verbals A is a verb form used as an adjective. The past participle ends in -ed or is irregular. Example: Looking over her tax returns, the The present weeping accountant tugged her participle ends in - bleached hair. ing. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
Chapter 28 Verbals A Let’s make a gerund out of is the -ing the verb “bowl. ” form of a verb “Bowl” + “ing” = used as a noun. “Bowling” Example: Bowling is not a sport, because you can smoke while you’re doing it. College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 5 E © 2000 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
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