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Its a Good Site ………………please I want more verbs ……..please notify me..
Thanks
Thanks for your kind comments. I will happily notify you if I generate another list of verbs.
thanks alot for the list of verbs
Thank you! Positive comments spur me on to add more stuff!
IT’S REALLY HELPFUL ……. BUT……. VERBS SHOULD BE GIVEN WITH ALL THE 4 FORMS.
Hmmmm not a bad idea! Ok I will probably do it down the road but right now I am in the middle of 5 hours of daily summer school teaching. Maybe during the break!
THESE VERBS ARE PROVED TO BE OF GREAT USE TO ME THIS TIME.
THANKSsssssss SIR FOR YOUR HELP.
Thank you for the comments 🙂
It is view that this site is really realiable and can fulfill the lack of student and others. I wish to get more with example.could anyone please help to give example?
Thanks for the compliments. The following link might be useful:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/04/
I find the Purdue site useful for my English classes overall.
Thank you, I am studying for a second language, and decided to increase my vocabulary by listing lots of verbs in english and looking up their translation in the dictionary + memorize it.
Wow! Good luck!
Thanks buddy
thank you sir …..but can it be given with it’s past form and meaning.
thank you once again.
Maybe its something I can work on during my next vacation!
This will be a great help for me in terms of creating my story project. This is a GREAT COMPILATION OF JAM-PACKED ACTION WORDS. Thanks a bunch for this post.
For the anonymous person, I suggest you use an English dictionary to know the past form of that verb you’re looking for AND THE MEANING OF THE WORD AS WELL. The author of this blog post just gave out the base form of the action words [maybe base form] as a guide for those who don’t know the list of action words base on your own vocabulary pool.
Good luck on your project!
Sir, a wonderful list! Thank you! I’m a bit confused, however, as to why you have a number of adverbs (e.g. expertly, relentlessly, and uniformly) listed as action verbs. These are two very different things, are they not?
You are correct and I will delete the ones you mentioned and try to find any others.
Could you please tell me what is the diffrence between to+infinitive and state verb ?
I think you mean stative verb. In a nutshell the infinitive verbs are verbs that describe action. Stative verbs describe being. The way English and Spanish handle the infinitive is very different and the following site does a good job of explaining this difference:
http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/show/29
I think the Wikipedia treatment of the stative verb topic is pretty good and better than anything I could come up with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stative_verb
Overall verb conjunctions are much more complex in Spanish than English! I learned Spanish as a kid so I don’t have to think about it but also teach Spanish and have to tell you its one tough subject and none native speakers generally make mistakes in their speech in this area even after tons and tons of drill and practice. The good news is that it has almost no impact on communication. The context of the conversation will let the listener know what type of verb you mean.
What to do will be the major theme for nearly the following 40 weeks.
It is possible to lose weight by running without injuring yourself.
This might possibly appear to be a reason to not use kettlebells.
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i think you need to put more funny words on this because a lot of these dont make sence
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Thanks for compiling this list. Helpful.
Hello and hail to you, why there’s no “spur” in the list?
I have obsession about a whole list! :((
Spur has been added!
O, my pleasure Sir.
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I am very happy to seen the all verb and all those thing it helps soon to learn Spanish i need some one who can able to teach me Spanish i can speak little Spanish my whats,app number is +918229091310 vishnu
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Thank you… I think these verbs are the most useful
You are welcome
Err. Sorry but this is a verbs list, why did you include so many adverbs? ably, adeptly and all the words ending in -ly are NOT verbs.
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Thanks for this help
Thank you so much for this help
You are welcome!
Is this only a verbs list? I can find some adverbs included here. Words ending in -ly are adverbs, not verbs.
http://rattanji.blogspot.com/2011/10/english-verbs-ending-in-ly-33.html#!/2011/10/english-verbs-ending-in-ly-33.html
How can we download the list?
Once upon a time on Sribd but they changed their policies!
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