Verbs List

In English, verbs  play an important part. They are used to describe actions, states, or occurrences, such as running, thinking, having, or being. In this guide, you will explore a 300+ verbs list including regular and irregular verbs, advanced academic verbs, and phrasal verbs. Learning this will help you expand your vocabulary, improve your grammar, and master English verbs with confidence.

Table of Contents: 

• What Are Verbs
• List of Commonly Used Verbs
• Frequently Asked Questions on Verbs

What Are Verbs

A verb is a word that shows an action, occurrence, or state of being. Verbs are essential in English because they tell us what the subject is doing or what is happening.

Examples:

• She runs every morning.
• He is a teacher.
• They looked after the baby.

Verbs are of different types based on how they function in a sentence. The different types of verbs are:

Regular verbs: These verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding -ed.

Examples:

• Play → Played → Played 
• Watch → Watched → Watched
• Clean → Cleaned → Cleaned

Irregular Verbs: Irregular verbs do not follow the -ed rule and have unique past tense and past participle forms.

Examples:

• Go → Went → Gone
• Eat → Ate → Eaten
• Write → Wrote → Written

Action Verbs: They are used to express physical or mental actions performed by the subject.

Examples: Run, jump, think, read, write, and play.

Linking Verbs: Linking verbs are used to connect the subject to a state or condition instead of showing action.

Examples: Be, seem, appear, become, feel.

Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs: Auxiliary verbs help the main verb express tense, mood, or voice.

Examples: Be, have, do, will, shall, can, may.

Phrasal verbs: Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs, creating a new meaning.

Examples:

• Look after → Take care of 
• Give up → Quit
• Turn on → Switch on

List of Commonly Used Verbs

Here is a list of commonly used, irregular, advanced, and phrasal verbs to help you improve your vocabulary and use verbs effectively in different contexts.

Regular Verbs List:

1. Accept
2. Achieve
3. Act
4. Add
5. Admire
6. Adopt
7. Advise
8. Agree
9. Allow
10. Answer
11. Appear
12. Approve
13. Arrive
14. Ask
15. Attach
16. Attempt
17. Attend
18. Bake
19. Balance
20. Believe
21. Boil
22. Borrow
23. Brush
24. Bury
25. Calculate
26. Call
27. Cancel
28. Carry
29. Change
30. Clean
31. Climb
32. Close
33. Collect
34. Combine
35. Comfort
36. Compare
37. Complete
38. Continue
39. Cook
40. Count
41. Create
42. Dance
43. Decide
44. Deliver
45. Depend
46. Describe
47. Destroy
48. Develop
49. Discover
50. Discuss
51. Divide
52. Drop
53. Earn
54. Encourage
55. Enjoy
56. Enter
57. Expand
58. Explain
59. Fill
60. Finish
61. Fix
62. Follow
63. Guess
64. Handle
65. Happen
66. Help
67. Imagine
68. Improve
69. Include
70. Increase
71. Invite
72. Join
73. Jump
74. Laugh
75. Learn
76. Listen
77. Live
78. Look
79. Love
80. Manage
81. Move
82. Need
83. Open
84. Order
85. Paint
86. Play
87. Prefer
88. Prepare
89. Protect
90. Push
91. Reach
92. Remember
93. Repeat
94. Reply
95. Return
96. Save
97. Show
98. Start
99. Stay
100. Stop
101. Talk
102. Travel
103. Try
104. Turn
105. Use
106. Visit
107. Wait
108. Walk
109. Want
110. Wash
111. Watch
112. Work

Irregular Verbs List:

1. Arise
2. Awake
3. Be
4. Bear
5. Beat
6. Become
7. Bend
8. Bet
9. Begin
10. Bind
11. Bleed
12. Blow
13. Break
14. Bring
15. Build
16. Burst
17. Buy
18. Cast
19. Catch
20. Choose
21. Come
22. Cut
23. Deal
24. Dig
25. Do
26. Draw
27. Drink
28. Drive
29. Eat
30. Fall
31. Feel
32. Fight
33. Find
34. Fly
35. Forget
36. Get
37. Give
38. Go
39. Grow
40. Hang
41. Have
42. Hear
43. Hold
44. Keep
45. Know
46. Leave
47. Lose
48. Make
49. Meet
50. Pay
51. Put
52. Read
53. Run
54. Say
55. See
56. Sell
57. Send
58. Sit
59. Sleep
60. Speak
61. Stand
62. Take
63. Teach
64. Tell
65. Think
66. Understand
67. Write

Advanced / Academic Verbs List:

1. Administer
2. Allocate
3. Analyze
4. Argue
5. Assess
6. Assume
7. Clarify
8. Classify
9. Compare
10. Compile
11. Conceptualize
12. Conclude
13. Confirm
14. Construct
15. Critique
16. Define
17. Demonstrate
18. Derive
19. Describe
20. Design
21. Develop
22. Differentiate
23. Discuss
24. Elaborate
25. Emphasize
26. Evaluate
27. Examine
28. Explain
29. Formulate
30. Generalize
31. Identify
32. Illustrate
33. Implement
34. Indicate
35. Integrate
36. Interpret
37. Justify
38. Maintain
39. Measure
40. Modify
41. Obtain
42. Optimize
43. Predict
44. Propose
45. Prove
46. Quantify
47. Recommend
48. Summarize
49. Support
50. Synthesize
51. Validate

Phrasal Verbs List:

1. Ask out
2. Back up
3. Break down
4. Bring about
5. Bring up
6. Call off
7. Call back
8. Carry on
9. Carry out
10. Come across
11. Come back
12. Come up with
13. Cut down
14. Cut off
15. Find out
16. Get along
17. Get back
18. Get over
19. Get up
20. Give in
21. Give up
22. Go on
23. Go out
24. Look after
25. Look for
26. Look into
27. Look up
28. Make up
29. Pick up
30. Put off
31. Put up with
32. Run into
33. Set up
34. Take off
35. Take on
36. Take up
37. Turn on
38. Turn off
39. Work out

Linking Verbs List:

1. Is
2. Appear
3. Seem
4. Feel
5. Become
6. Remain
7. Stay
8. Look
9. Sound
10. Taste
11. Smell
12. Grow
13. Turn
14. Prove

Common Auxiliary Verbs List:

1. Is
2. Am
3. Are
4. Was
5. Were
6. Be
7. Being
8. Been
9. Has
10. Have
11. Had
12. Do
13. Does
14. Did
15. Can
16. Could
17. May
18. Might
19. Must
20. Shall
21. Should
22. Will
23. Would
24. Ought to