The Verb
Advanced companion to Verbo Gets It Moving, dropping the character persona to address the real technical term directly: a verb expresses action or state, conjugates across tense (present, past, future), must agree with its subject in number, and includes irregular forms. Structured as a tense- conjugation demonstration instead of a pep-rally chant.
A verb carries action or state, the engine driving every line, without one, a sentence sits still, a name with nowhere to go, present tense: she runs, she reads, she teaches what she knows, the action happens now, in the moment the words unfold.
Shift the tense to past, and the same verb bends its shape, ran, read, taught, the action already made its escape, shift again to future, add will or going to ahead, will run, will read, will teach, the action hasn't happened yet.
Verbs can show action: jump, whisper, build, collapse, repair, or they can show a state of being: seem, feel, appear, stay, remain, or care, irregular verbs refuse the normal pattern rule, go becomes went, not goed, the exception grammar still must keep.
Subject and verb must agree in number before a sentence stands, one dog runs, two dogs run, the verb shifts with the count in your hands, a single verb can complete a sentence: birds fly, rivers flow, children grow, action or state, present, past, or future, the verb decides where a sentence can go.
Key Concepts: A verb expresses action or a state of being, and a sentence needs one to move | Verbs conjugate across tense (present, past, future) and must agree in number with their subject | Some verbs are irregular, breaking the normal pattern (go/went, not go/goed)
Key Words: verb, tense, conjugate, subject-verb agreement, irregular
Companion to: Verbo Gets It Moving (meet-verbo.md), dropping the character persona to address the real term directly, for an older audience.