The endings of verbs are called "inflections." Inflections are suffixes or endings added to the base form of a verb to indicate tense, aspect, mood, person, number, or voice. In English, common verb inflections include -ed for past tense, -ing for progressive aspect, and -s for third person singular present tense.
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Regular Verbs
The two kinds of verbs are action or transitive verbs and linking or intransitive verbs. Action verbs refer to verbs with an object denoting physical action while linking verbs are verbs without an object and only linking the subject with the predicate.
Verbs that form their past and past participle by adding ed, d, or t to the present are called _____ verbs.
Verbs that describe a condition or state of being are called 'to be' verbs or 'verbs to be', even 'state of being' verbs. They are:Present tense: I am; we are; you are; he, she, it is; they are.Past tense: I was; we were; you were; he, she, it was; they were.Past participle: I, we, you, they have been; he, she, it has been.Present participle: I, am being; you are being; he, she, it is being.
The verbs that do not show action are called 'being verbs' or 'verbs to be'. Some examples are:I amYou areHe isShe willIt wasThe 'being verbs' are used as a main verb (You are a friend.) and an auxiliary verb (We are goingtoday.)