English Verbs: QuickStudy Language Arts Laminated Reference & Study Guide | Second Edition, New Edition, Updated & Revised Edition

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This essential guide to verbs will vastly improve your writing skills and success. Verbs are the most essential words as they represent actions and feelings when writing or speaking, without them sentences do not work. Very skilled use of verbs will bring your language to the next level in school, boosting essay grades and test scores. Our author and English professor expertly organized the details of verb use, the types of verbs, how they work and when to use them with so many examples that you can be sure to see skilled verb use in action. In 6 colorful pages organized for quick access and at this low price for a tool that offers so much understanding and improvement, buying this guide is a no brainer to ensure anyone excels as a student and beyond. 6 page digital PDF guide includes: Verb Basics  Finite Verbs (Main Verbs)  Nonfinite Verbs (Verbals)  The Five Properties of Verbs  Person  Number  Tense  Voice  Mood  Conjugation  Regular Verbs Example Tense Form Table Irregular Verbs  Example Tense Form Table Types of Verbs  Action vs. Linking  Transitive vs. Intransitive  Phrasal Verbs  Auxiliaries & Modal Auxiliaries   Infinitives  Participles  Gerunds  A Change in Time: Controlling Shifts in Tense  Same Time of Action  Change in Time  Verb Tense in Academic Writing  Use Present Tense  Use Past Tense  Use Future Tense  Rules for Tense Shifts  Voice in Academic Writing  Use Active Voice  Example Passage Use Passive Voice  Example Passage Table of Active Verbs for Types of Essays Using Verbs to Introduce Sources Verb Examples - Table of Reporting Verb Use Verb Examples – Table of what Reporting Verbs May be Followed by Verb Choice in Creative Writing Descriptive Verbs  Descriptive Verb Examples Table Verb Tense in Creative Writing  Use Present Tense – with Example Passages Use Past Tense – with Example Passages