KELOMPOK 1
1.
SALMA DAMAYANTI
2.
MELLA RUSDIYANTI ELSA PUTRI
3.
URFIDHA LETJAR IRYANTI
4.
DINI ANTIKA NURFITRYA
5.
INUNG FIDI ASTUTI
CLASS 1B/PBI
Verb
and Tenses
Most verb describe actions, so they are called action verb. Action verb tell people or
thing are doing. Here are common action verbs:
Drink look jump swim fall
Eat shout walk throw climb
Laugh run sit catch dance
Subject and Verb Agreement
when you use a verb, you have to say who or
what is doing the action. This ‘who or what’ is the subject of the verb. The subject and the verb match each other. You
say that the subject and the verb agree
when the match each other.
Ø Use a singular verb if the subject is a singular noun. For example, the subjects ‘my dad’ or ‘our school’,
or any the pronouns he, she, or it, require a singular verb. Most
singular verbs end in s. look at the
subjects and their verb in these examples. The subjects are in bold and the
verbs in color.
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He
always drinks milk when he’s hot.
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She
eat banana for breakfast.
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Mom
walk to work every day.
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My
sister dances like a professional dancer.
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The
baby falls when she tries to walk.
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Our cat climb the trees in our garden.
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This form of the verb is called the third person singular. You use it when
the subject of the verb is not you or the person you are speaking to, but some
other person-a third person- or a thing.
Here are
some more third person singular verbs that
end in s.
Plays sing shines rides smiles
Draws paints blows thinks stops
Reads rains travels talk starts
Ø The third person singular form of
the some verbs is made by adding es at
the end. Some examples are verbs that end in sh, ch, ss, x, zz, and o.
Brushes watches kisses fixes
Rushes reaches misses mixes
Polishes teaches passes buzzes
Crashes catches presses does
Washes touches dresses goes
Here are
some sentences with verbs in their third
person singular form. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are in color.
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Dad
polishes his shoes until they shine.
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My
brother watches television after
school.
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Kim
catches the ball with one hand.
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Dad
mixes flour and water when he makes
bread.
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The
bee buzzes around the flowers.
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My
friend Sanjay goes to the same
school as I do.
Ø How do you make the third person
singular form of the most verbs that end in
y?
Usually,
you just change the y to an i and then add es.
Carry-carries hurry-hurries copy-copies
Cry-cries fly-flies marry-marries
Study-studies worry-worries bully-bullies
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A
cat carries
its kitten with this mouth
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Mr.
Chen hurries
to work every morning
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The
baby cries
a lot at night
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This
plane flies to the island every day
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Alice
tries
hard at school
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She
copies
all the question in her notebook
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Ø Some verbs that end in y have a vowel
before the y. Just add an s at
the end of these words to make the third person singular form.
Buy-buys say-says pray-prays
Play-plays annoy-annoys stay-stays
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Mom
buys
bread at the supermarket
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Mr.
Carter pays all his bills with a credit card
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My
friend says he has a salt-water aquarium
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She
annoys
me with her silly jokes
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Anna
stays
with her aunt on weekends
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Ø If the subject of a verb is a plural noun, such as “Mom and Dad” or
“our teacher”, use a plural verb. Do
not add s, es or ies to plural verbs. Plural verbs are also
use with the pronouns I, we, you, and
they.
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Mom
and Dad love us
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My
sister listen to music a lot
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The
stars shine brightly on a clear night
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Some
people drink tea
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I
like
juicy hamburgers
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We
learn
interesting thing at school
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You
all know
the words to this song, children
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They
always walk home from school together
Ø Suppose the subject of a noun refers
to a group of people. Depending on
the meaning of the sentence, you may use either a singular or plural verb.
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The
audience was enjoying the play
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The
audience have all gone home
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The
class has thirty students
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The
class are handing in their papers
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The
band is performing until midnight
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The
band were arguing among themselves.
Notes : words that refer to group of people or animals
are called collective nouns. Here
are some more examples:
Crowd committee herd
Crew litter flock
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Ø Some verbs have an subject. The object of a verb is the person or thing that is
affected by the action of the verb.
Look at the sentence:
Alice eats a banana for breakfast
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The subject The verb is The
object is
does the the action affected
by
action word the
action
The subject
of the verb is Alice. She is the
person who does the action: she eats. The
object of the verb is a banana. A banana is affected by the
action of the verb. So in this sentence, the object of the verb ‘eat’ is ‘a
banana’. Verbs that have objects are called transitive verb.
Here are
some sentences with transitive verbs. the
verbs are printed in bold and their objects are printed in color.
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John
likes apples
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Sam
knows the answer to the question
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My
sister cooks all our meals
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My
brother rides his bike in the street
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Dad
buys tea
at the market
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Mom
writes stories in her spare time
Ø Some verbs don’t have an object. A
verb that does not have object is called an intransitive verb. Here are some sentences with intransitive verbs.
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In
China, lots of people walk to work
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The
boys play in yard after school
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Mr.
Carter always driver very carefully
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Doris
is a very successful businesswomen
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Michael
and I both entered the race
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He
won but I lost
Ø Some verbs can be either transitive
or intransitive. Notice that the transitive meaning and are sometimes
different.
Transitive verbs
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The
pilot flies the plane very well
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The
boys play football on weekends
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My
mom runs her own company
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We
walk the
dog every evening
Intransitive verb
-
Eagles
fly high in the sky
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The
boy play in the yard on weekends
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My
mom runs in the park for fun
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We
walk on the beach every evening
Other
intransitive verbs have different forms for transitive use
Intransitive transitive
Lie lay the book is lying on the table
He
laid
the book on the table
Rise raise the sun rises in the east
The
student raised his hand
Sit set please sit down
She
set
the chair in the corner
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