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DEFINITION
Verbs carry the idea of being or action in the sentence.

I am a student.
The students passed all their courses.
As we will see on this page, verbs are classified in many ways. First, some verbs require an object to complete their meaning: She gave _____ ? Gave what? She gave money to the church. These verbs are called transitive. Verbs that are intransitive do not require objects: The building collapsed. In English, you cannot tell the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb by its form; you have to see how the verb is functioning within the sentence. In fact, a verb can be both transitive and intransitive: The monster collapsed the building by sitting on it.

Although you will seldom hear the term, a ***ransitive verb is one ?" such as cause or give ?" that can take a direct object and an indirect object at the same time: "That horrid music gave me a headache." ***ransitive verbs are slightly different, then, from factitive verbs (see below), in that the latter take two objects.

Verbs are also classified as either finite or non-finite. A finite verb makes an assertion or expresses a state of being and can stand by itself as the main verb of a sentence.

The truck demolished the restaurant.
The leaves were yellow and sickly.
Non-finite verbs (think "unfinished") cannot, by themselves, be main verbs:

The broken window . . .
The wheezing gentleman . . .


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