Verbs

A1–B1

Learn how verbs work — regular and irregular forms, verb types, and the role each one plays in a sentence.

Lessons in this category

What a verb actually does in a sentence — action, state, and everything in between.

The base form, -s form, -ing form, past form and past participle — one verb, five faces.

Add -ed, or learn a whole new word — walked vs. went.

Action, state, auxiliary, modal — sorting verbs into the jobs they do.

Be, have and do working behind the scenes to build tenses, questions and negatives.

Know vs. knowing — which verbs describe a state, not an action, and why that matters.

Some verbs need an object, some can't take one — telling the two apart.

Be, seem, become — verbs that connect the subject to a description instead of an action.