Kinds of Verbs

Verbs atau kata kerja dalam tata bahasa (Grammar) Bahasa Inggris mempunyai beragam bentuk. Bentuk-bentuk kata-kata kerja tersebut digolongkan ke dalam beberapa kelompok seperti yang akan dijelaskan di bawah ini. Silahkan perhatikan pengelompokan kata-kata kerja tersebut.

Action Verbs

add, allow, bake, bang, call, chase, damage, drop, end, escape, fasten, fix, gather, grab, hang, hug, imagine, itch, jog, jump, kick, knit, land, lock, march, mix, name, notice, obey, open, pass, promise, question, reach, rinse, scatter, stay, talk, turn, untie, use, vanish, visit, walk, work, yawn, yell, zip, zoom

Being Verbs

• Present tense – I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, they are


• Past Tense – I was, you were, he/she/it, was, we were, they were


• Future Tense – I will be, you will be, he/she/it will be, we will be, they will be


• Present Perfect Tense – I have been, you have been, he/she/it has been, we have been, they have been


• Past Perfect Tense -I had been, you had been, he/she/it had been, we had been, they had been


• Future Perfect Tense – I will have been, you will have been, he/she/it will have been, we will have been, they will have been

Auxiliary Verbs

may, might, must, be, being, been, am, are, is, was, were, do, does, did, should, could, would, have, had, has, will, can, shall

Linking Verbs

am, are, being, appear, be, become, feel, get, grow, have/has been, is, lie, look, might be, might have been, prove, remain, seem, sit, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn, were

Regular Verbs

• call – called – called


• visit – visit – visited


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Irregular Verbs

• go – went – gone


• write – wrote – written


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