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 ...

You can’t even have a sentence or question without a verb! That’s how amazingly important verbs are. The workers are working. Working is a doing word. They work upon this building all day long.

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