Which Words Are Verbs. Verbs are action words as they describe some action being performed. A verb can express a physical action (jump), a mental action (guess), or a state of being (exist).
This page is a grammar lesson on verbs, the type of verbs, and verb terminology. A verb is the part of a sentence that tells us what the subject performs. Verbs are action words as they describe some action being performed.
In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.
The verb has the following grammatical categories: person, number, tense, aspect These categories can be expressed by means of affixes, inner flexion (change of the root vowel) and by form words.
The stems may be simple ex: go, take, read. This page is a grammar lesson on verbs, the type of verbs, and verb terminology. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense.