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Worksheet seminar 7 English Morphology – The Verb

I. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the categories of the verb in English?

2. Which is the marked finite verb tense in English?

3. Which are the three main meanings of Present Tense in English?

4. What is the meaning of Past Tense with a present value?

5. Which are the verbs used frequently with the historic Present Tense?

6. What are the meanings of Present Tense in conversation / in academic prose?

7. Which are the verbs most frequently used in the Present Tense / Past Tense?

8. When is the Present Tense with a future meaning used?9. How is the Future marked in English?

10. What information does the category of Aspect bring to the verb phrase?

11. What kind of action does the Present Perfect / Past Perfect refer to?

12. What is the meaning of the Progressive Aspect?

13. Which is the register with the most frequent use of the3 Perfect Aspect?

14. What are some differences between A.E. and B.E. in terms of the use of aspectual forms?

15. Which are the verbs most commonly used in the Present Perfect Aspect? What semantic

categories do they belong to?

16. Which are the verbs seldom used in the Present Aspect?

17. Which are the verbs most commonly used in the Past Perfect Aspect?

18. What is the main difference in meaning between the Present Perfect and the Simple Past?

19. What semantic category of verbs does the Past Progressive most frequently occur?20. Which are the verbs that seldom occur in the Progressive?

21. Which are the characteristic(s) that determine whether a verb is commonly or rarely used in

the Progressive?

22. Which is the unmarked voice?

23. Which are the auxiliaries used to form Passive constructions?

24. What is the Short Passive?

25. IN what register is the Passive most frequently used?

26. What is the role of the agentless Passive in academic prose?

27. What are principles that determine the choice of the long / short Passive?

28. Which verbs are commonly / rarely used in the Passive Voice?

29. Which are the most frequent combinations of Passive and Aspect?

II. Practice:

1. What combinations of categories do the following verbs display:

a. The guards had found a note.

b. For nearly a year, the Zairian president has been living just down the road.

c. I think now I might be going to San Diego this weekend.

d. Vecco’s family has lived since 1969 in the spacious apartment that has become the

ultimate room with a view.

e. Well, you could have used the meat pot.

f. At that point, Ritchie had been sitting in one of the 8-feet-by-8-feet rooms for about five

hours.

g. He is young enough to be in his prime and old enough to have acquired the necessaryexperience at both baseball and life.

h. But he was just saying that he doesn’t want a reward.

2. Put the verbs between brackets in the appropriate form, explaining its use:

a. Brenda Pearl (join) our firm ten years ago. She (work) for the previous five years with

advertising company and (acquire) much useful experience. For the first eight years with

us she (work) in the Sales Department, and (work) there when I (become) Managing

Director. Since then she (work) as my personal assistant, and (prove) herself to be

outstandingly capable on many occasions. She (work) on the top floor, in an office next to

mine, but at the moment (work) in London on a special assignment.

b. My son (study) medicine for six years and (take) his final examinations in two months’

time. Provided he (pass) them, he (specialise) in psychiatry, which (take) another twoyears’ study at least. So he (not/be) ready to practise full time until he (be) nearly thirty. By

then he (study) for a total of eight years and (earn) practically nothing. Until now his wife

(work) and (support) him, but she (expect) a baby in four months and so she (give up) her

job soon. What on earth (live) on when she (stop) working I do not know. But they



(not/worry) about it. My daughter-in-law says that they (manage) somehow, while my son

says simply that he (qualify) as a psychiatrist however long it (take).

c. ‘If I (be) a successful doctor like you I (not/do) what you’ve done: I (not/go) and (live) in a

town I (not/like), however much the people (need) me.’

‘If I (not/be) a doctor I (agree) with you. I (live) near my family and friends, not where my

fellow citizens (need) me most. But I am a doctor, and if I (do) that my skills (be) wasted.

And if I felt that was happening, how I (justify) my choice of career?’

3. Identify and analyse all the verb phrases (finite and non-finite) in the texts:

a. They said that the Lincoln Bedroom was used only sporadically for family members and

close friends. b. As is shown in Figure 15, a considerable amount of waste crosses State lines.

c. I flew from New York to Uganda, where I settled among black people with the same

assumptions of welcome kindness I had taken for granted in Georgia. I was taken on rides

down the Nile as a matter of course, and accepted all invitations to dinner, where the best

local dishes were superbly prepared in my honour. I became, in fact, a lost relative of the

people, whose ancestors has foolishly strayed, long ago, to America.

d. Currently, assistance can only be resumed when the president certifies that the country has

returned to a democratically elected govern.

(from Longman Student Grammar Workbook )

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