This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as engines, driving the action of your ...

Many of these verbs have a transitive counterpart which are transitive verbs, often called causative verbs: Note that the sun is an instrument here, since the sun, as far as I know, has no central ...

This combination of verb and adverb is always known as a phrasal verb. Note that it is not always possible to guess the meaning of phrasal verbs (or prepositional verbs for that matter ...

These are called reflexive verbs because the people doing the action are doing it to themselves.