Interacting with English: Understanding Verbs: Lesson # 2

 

Verbs are very important words as far as meanings of a sentence are concerned. So students should have as many verbs at their command as possible. The best place of picking verbs for personal use is the literary texts students study as their course work at college.

Here I have prepared a demo lesson for students who are learning English at intermediate level. This kind of lessons when executed intelligently, they increase student interaction with language.

Let us start first defining verb.

Verbs are words denoting action, state, condition, etc.

How student should work with their literary text is shown below.

They should take fairly longer sentences and pick out verbs and record as under.

Example Sentence 1: Then I grasped the child’s head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
1	Grasped	Grasp	پکڑنا
2	Tried	Try	کوشش کرنا

 

Example Sentence 2: This appeared strange who could not comprehend the wisdom in the action taken by the sergeant, he asked for it.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
1	Appeared	Appear	نظر آنا
2	Comprehend	Comprehend	سمجھنا
3	Asked	Ask	پوچھنا

 

Example Sentence 3: The king felt disturbed and on hearing these words he could not control his tears.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
1	Disturbed	Disturb	مضطرب ہونا
2	Control	Control	قابو کرنا

 

Example Sentence 4: The king summoned the father and the mother of the boy, whose consent he got by giving them a huge amount of wealth.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
1	Summoned	Summon	بلانا (سرکاری حکم کے ذریعے)
2	Got	Get	حا صل کرنا

 

Example Sentence 5: He kissed the head and eyes of the boy and presented him with a lot of wealth.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
1	Kissed	Kiss	چومنا
2	Presented	Present	پیش کرنا

 

Here are a few sentences to practice what you have learnt above as there is no perfection without practice.

Practice Sentence 1: While she was stacking dishes, she turned abruptly, dried her hands, and took the package from the bottom cabinet.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings
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Practice Sentence 2: People started to tell the story of the string to amuse themselves and told in a manner of soldier who had gone on a campaign and told about his battles.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings

 

Practice Sentence 3: He then struck the man himself a similar below, which felled him on the earth like a log.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings

 

Practice Sentence 4: She stared at it for a long time before taking the key from its envelope and removing the glass dome.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings

 

Practice Sentence 5: All remained quiet except the slave who in the fear of being drowned began to cry and tremble, and created inconvenience for others.

Sr.	Verb in the Sentence	Base Form of Verb	Urdu Meanings

 

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