Which sentence uses a verb?

Which sentence uses a verb?

• A. The sun shines.
• B. The sunny sun.
• C. Shining sun.
• D. Sun shines today.

Answer: (A)

A verb is the word that shows action or a state of being and the one that forms the predicate of a sentence. In The sun shines, shines is the verb, showing what the sun does. The subject is The sun, and the combination of subject plus the finite verb creates a complete, grammatical statement in the present tense. The other options don’t present a verb acting as the predicate: The sunny sun is just a noun with adjectives, not a verb; Shining sun is a noun phrase with a participle used descriptively, not a finite verb; Sun shines today could be argued as having a verb, but it’s not as clearly a standard, fully formed sentence in simple declarative form as The sun shines.

A verb is the word that shows action or a state of being and the one that forms the predicate of a sentence. In The sun shines, shines is the verb, showing what the sun does. The subject is The sun, and the combination of subject plus the finite verb creates a complete, grammatical statement in the present tense.

The other options don’t present a verb acting as the predicate: The sunny sun is just a noun with adjectives, not a verb; Shining sun is a noun phrase with a participle used descriptively, not a finite verb; Sun shines today could be argued as having a verb, but it’s not as clearly a standard, fully formed sentence in simple declarative form as The sun shines.