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Action verbs

Post by natttt

Posted on 2011-01-10 00:52:41

Action verbs are verbs that show the performance of an action. They are dynamic verbs that show something happening.

There are regular and irregular action verbs.

For example:

* To walk is a regular action verb
* To run is an irregular action verb

Other examples of action verbs are:

ride, ran, awake, sang, hit, fell, jump, push, pull, drop, spill, click, press, move, transform, translate, act

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