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 What is a verb? How can we use verbs? Why are verbs useful to learn when learning English? In this blog we will look at these questions and their answers. What is a verb? A verb refers to a word that describes an action. This action can be physical or mental. Verbs come in three tenses which are past, present and future. Past refers to before or yesterday or in the past. Present refers to now, right now or the current things happening. And lastly future refers to tomorrow or a time still to come. It is important to remember that a verb will help you to express something which is happening or which you can see or feel happening. How can we use verbs? Make sure which tense you are in. Are you in past, present or future tense? Now you can make sure that your verb has the correct tense as well. The main job of the verb is to show you what the subject is doing or feeling. There will be a verb in every sentence otherwise the sentence does not make sense. Example: I like my dog. (like is...

 Noun words are names for people, places or things. The names for things are the building blocks of any language and therefore starting with nouns when learning English will give you useful building-blocks to be able to at least express basic necessities. These words can, alone, speak of a person, creature, place, thing or thought. This is helpful when you are not sure how to link words together in a new language yet. It also helps others to try and understand what it is that you are trying to say, receive or express. There are different ways to recognise nouns and to tune your ears to recognising nouns. A noun literally refers to what you call or name a thing, place or person. For example, "I am Jessie." "Jessie" would be the name of the person and that is why it's a noun. Another example, "That is my dog, Spot." "Spot" and "dog" are nouns because "dog" tells you what thing we are talking about and "Spot" is wha...