English in Use/Vocabulary Verbs
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General: Introduction
Parts of speech: Articles - Nouns - Verbs - Gerunds and participles - Pronouns - Adjectives - Adverbs - Conjunctions - Prepositions - Interjections
Other English topics: Orthography - Punctuation - Syntax -
Figures of Syntax - Glossary
[edit] Verb
"A doing word."
A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("to decompose" (itself), "to glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "live", "soak", "stand"). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (what we usually call subject, object, etc.).
