When an active verb does have "be" as a helping verb, the main verb will end in "ing." Robert Hills designed [no helping verbs] the Washington Monument to honor George Washington. The state of ...

Because infinitives generally do not have explicit subjects the way other, main verbs do, users of English must infer the logical, or understood, subject of an infinitive in accordance with certain ...

In French ne ... pas means 'not' and it is used around the main verb of sentence to turn it from a positive into a negative. Reflexive verbs Did you know that reflexive verbs are 'action' verbs?

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...