What are Action or Dynamic Verbs?
Action Verbs are also known as Dynamic Verbs. They are used to explain what the subject of a sentence is actively doing.
Examples:
eat, drink, walk, jump, kick
"I always eat bananas while walking my way home."
"He jumps to reach the balloon’s thread."
Action verbs are crucial as they impact the meaning of a sentence. They not only tell what the subject is doing but also demonstrate how the subject is doing it.
Take a look at these sentences:
"She was in the room."
"The students were in the library."
The above sentences are grammatically correct but do not show what the subjects are really doing. This is because there are no action verbs, only stative verbs, specifically "was" and "were".
This does not mean it is wrong to write such sentences because there are times when we know where a person is but not what he/she is doing. However, if we know what they are doing, writing these sentences is less informative.
So one could say it in a more specific way using action verbs:
Examples:
"She slept in the room."
"The students studied in the library."
These are more meaningful and specific! The first sentence tells exactly what she was doing in the room — sleeping. The second sentence tells exactly what the students were doing in the library — studying.
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