Grasp English Standards

A  verb  is a word which typically describes what a person or thing does, or what happens:  be, make, build, remember, occur , and  seem  are all examples of verbs in English. Verbs are generally essential to the structure of a sentence, and they can be  inflected  to show features such as  tense ,  number , and  person : for example, the verb  remember  can be put in the  past tense  form  remembered  or the  third person  present  singular  form  remembers . In English, verbs are  transitive  or  intransitive . The category of verbs is one of the  parts of speech . See also   auxiliary verb ,   copula ,   main verb ,   modal verb ,   phrasal verb .