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PART ONE: FORM OF ENGLISH VERBS
Verb Basics

4.2 Verb Families

The Miller Family

A family’s name is important to any family. It includes all the
members of that family. Verbs also have families. Each verb
family has many different parts that belong within the family.
In grammar, we call the family name of a verb its infinitive
form.

The infinitive form consists of the word “to”
plus the base form of a verb.

Here are three examples of the infinitive form:

to eat to swim to write

Because verbs can take many different forms, knowing the
verb’s family name makes it much easier to use verbs correctly.
As a next step, we will cover the different types of verbs you need
to be able to recognize.

4.3 Types of Verbs

A verb is a word showing or expressing action,
being, or state of being.

What kind of action does a verb show? Some verbs show physical
action.

Action Verbs

Examples: to eat to swim to write
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