Types of Verbs

Types of Verbs
Verbs form the most important component in a sentence. Verbs are the words that describe an action of a person or a thing or event. It shows what the subject is doing or the state or situation that a subject is in. For example:

She painted her room.

He is an intelligent man.

In the first example, ‘paint’ is a verb. In the second example, ‘is’ is an auxiliary verb which shows the state of the subject ‘he’ as being ‘intelligent’.

There are different types of verbs. Few are listed below:

Action verbs

Action verbs tell us what the subject is doing in the sentence. It is easy to identify action verb in the sentence. In order to recognize an action verb in a sentence, you just have to ask ‘what is the subject doing?’

‘Satish is cleaning the room.’