Verbs 1

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• Leerjaar 4

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Verbs

Verbs 

• Lexical verbs - zelfstandige werkwoorden
• copula's - koppelwerkwoorden
• auxiliary verbs - hulpwerkwoorden

Lexical verbs 

• In England once there lived a pig
• He worked out sums inside his head
• All in a flash, he saw the light

Lexical verbs 

• Hoofdwerkwoord
• Vaak (maar niet altijd!!!) het enige werkwoord in de zin
• Ontkennend: Do not, did not. 
• Vragend: Do, did?

Copula's

• 'Koppelt' iemand/iets met een beschrijving, bijv. 

'To everybody it was plain'

it = plain

'No animal is half so vile as Crockywock the Crocodile'

No animal = half so vile

Copula's

to appear                  to remain

to be                            to seem

to become                 to turn

to get                             to stay 

to grow

to keep 

to prove

Copula's

Vragen en ontkennend maken:

• Bij 'to be' geen ander hulpwerkwoord nodig
• Bij de andere copula's wel

bijv. He remained calm

Did he remain calm

He did not remain calm

Primary Auxiliaries

• Help to make one of the tenses: 

I have read a book

You are washing your socks

They were leaving the building 

Auxiliary or lexical verbs? 

• Piggy had a massive brain.
• There was no book he had not read
• What life was really all about?
• By gum, I have got the answer!

Question tags

• Vaak spreektaal

She felt better in the morning, didn't she?

Substitutes

The primary auxiliary 'do' is sometimes also used to replace or act as a substitute for a lexical verb:

• He worked hard and so did his brother 
• She does not love potatoes and neither do I 

Substitutes

But: 

She is eating an apple

She is eating an apple, isn't she?

She is not eating an apple

She is not eating an apple and neither am I

Is she eating an apple?

Here you do not use a form of 'to do'!

HOMEWORK

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