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WHAT IS THE VERB?
- words that represent ACTIONS + STATES
"A word which (a) occurs as part of the predicate of a sentence (b) carries grammatical categories such as tense, aspect person, number and (c) refers to an action or a state."
- subject:
noun phrase
article + adj, nouns
the / angry crowd
- predicate:
verb phrase
verb + objects, complements
out / of control
- what is "verb phrase"?
- "The part of the sentence which contains the main verb and also any objects, complements and adverbials. e.g. (Tom) gave a watch to his daughter."
- "Can consist of the word or of more than one word, in which case the phrase consists of a head verb preceded by one or more auxiliary verbs." - no mention of objects, complements, etc.
- "The verb phrase is often heavily packed with meaning. Tis is becaise we build into it a number of concepts and devices."
- tense/time
- passive/active voice
- mood indicative, subjunctive, imperative
- modality
- aspect/progressive, perfect
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