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Type 1: intransitive
The verb does not take a direct object. These are verbs like ‘take off’ (‘The plane took off’), 
‘slow down’ (‘Slow down at the corner’), ‘stand up’ (‘She stood up when I came into the 
room ’).
Type 2: transitive and inseparable
These are verbs which take an object, and where the object m ust come after the complete 
verb (the verb and the particle cannot be separated). Examples include ‘go on’ (‘to go on a 
diet’), ‘look after’ (‘Will you look after the children?’), ‘see about’ (‘I’m going to see about 
a new car’).
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Type 3: transitive and separable
W ith these verbs the object can come between the verb and the particle (or go after it). 
Examples include ‘give back’ (‘He gave the present back’, ‘He gave back the present’) and 
‘work out’ (‘We’re going to work the problem out somehow’, ‘We’re going to work out the 
problem somehow’). However, if the object is a pronoun, it m ust come between the verb 
and the particle (‘He gave it back’, ‘We’re going to work it out’).
Type 4: transitive, 2+ particles, inseparable
Where there is more than one particle, the object has to come at the end. Examples include 
‘run out o f’ (‘We’ve run out of petrol’), ‘break up with’ (‘He’s broken up with his girlfriend’), 
‘cut down on’ (‘I’m trying to cut down on my chocolate intake’).
Verb forms
We describe the form (and meaning) of main verbs in the following ways.
Present
‘Your brother is upstairs’, ‘I love it here’, ‘W hat’s happening?’, ‘I’m not missing that plane’. 
Past
‘Eleanor said goodnight’, ‘She cried’, ‘Her parents were packing their suitcases’.
Simple
This is the 
base form 
of a verb (e.g. ‘walk’, ‘do’, ‘run’) often inflected to agree with the 
subject (‘He walks’, ‘She does’, ‘It runs’) or to indicate time and tense (‘They walked’, ‘It was 
done’, ‘He ran as fast as possible’).
Continuous
Continuous verbs (also called progressive) are form ed by adding ‘-ing’ to the base form 
and using it with the verb ‘to be’, e.g. ‘She is writing a letter’, ‘She was looking out of the 
window’.
Present and past verb forms can therefore be described as present simple or present 
continuous, past simple or past continuous. We can summarise these verb forms in the 
following table.