Finite Verbs

The underlined words are "FINITE VERBS".

 

Definition

Finite verbs (sometimes called main verbs) are verb forms suitable for use in predicates in that they carry inflections or other formal characteristics limiting their number(singular / plural), person, and tense(past / present etc). Finite verbs can function on their own as the core of an independent sentence.

For example :

• I walked, they walk, and she walks are finite verbs
  * (to) walk is an infinitive.
• I lived in Germay.
  * "I" is the subject. "Lived" describes what the subject did. "Lived" is a finite verb.

Examples :

• The truck demolished the restaurant.
• The leaves were yellow and sickly.