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Tham khảo tài liệu 'about the ged writting exam 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | USAGE Verbs Verbs are the heart of a sentence. They express the action or state of being of the subject telling us what the subject is doing thinking or feeling. She yelled out the window. action I am happy to be here. state of being We feel very lucky to be alive. state of being I should ask Winston what he thinks. action Verbs have five basic forms 1. Infinitive This is base form of the verb plus the word to. to go to be to dream to admire To indicate tenses of regular verbs when the action of the verb did occur is occurring or will occur we use the base form of the verb and add the appropriate tense endings. 2. Present tense This verb form expresses what is happening now. I am sorry you are not coming with us. Jessica does yoga every morning. The present tense of regular verbs is formed as follows SINGULAR PLURAL first person base form base form I we believe believe second person base form base form you believe believe third person base form base form he she it they -s -es believes believe 3. Present participle This verb form describes what is happening now. It ends in -ing and is accompanied by a helping verb such as is. Jessica is doing a difficult yoga pose. The leaves are falling from the trees. Note Words that end in -ing don t always function as verbs. Sometimes they act as nouns and are called gerunds. They can also function as adjectives called participial phrases . Present participle verb He is loading the boxes into the car. Gerund noun This parking area is for loading only. Participial phrase adjective The loading dock is littered with paper. You will learn more about gerunds later in this section. 4. Past tense This verb form expresses what happened in the past. It snowed yesterday in the mountains. I felt better after I stretched and did some deep breathing. 5. Past participle This verb form describes an action that happened in the past. It is used with a helping verb such as has have or had. It has not snowed all winter. I have waited as long as I