Dictionary of Verbs: A World of Action Words

“Verb” is the most important word of an English sentence. It comes from the Latin word Verbum meaning word. It denotes the action, tells or asserts something about a person or thing. There cannot be a sentence without a verb. The form of a verb changes as the tense. There are four forms of the verb namely, present, present participle, past tense and past participle. There different kinds of verbs like regular and irregular verb and transitive and intransitive verbs. In learning any language, the tense is the most important aspect of grammar and the verb is the most important part in learning tenses.In the book there is a compilation of many verbs in alphabetical order with all the four forms of present, present participle, past tense and past participle. Each form is explained with a sentence for understanding the usage of the said form. The form of the verb changes as per the tenses and many times the spellings also change. Like in the present participle tense the “ing” form is used but if the verb ends with ‘e’ the ‘e’ is removed and ‘ing’ added.
e.g: write-writing
Similarly, if the second last letter is a vowel i.e. ‘a, e,i, o, u’, while adding ‘ing’ the last letter is doubled.
e.g. cut-cutting
but if the last letter is ‘y’, it will not be doubled.
e.g. play-playing
In the past tense and the past participle forms there are regular and irregular verbs. A regular verb takes ‘ed’ in the past tense and past participle.
e.g accept-accepted
An irregular verb changes the whole spelling in the past tense and past participle and the spellings vary from verb to verb.
e.g swim-swam-swum, buy-bought-bought, sing-sang-sung
This book will be useful to understand the right use of verbs and its different forms including the regular and irregular forms with spellings and sentences. It will be useful to students; aspirants of competitive exams, professionals and of course the lovers of English language.