在英语学习中，毫无疑问，必须过好动词关，因为每句话都离不开动词，而每个动词在具体的语境中又必须以某种“形态”来表现自己。所以，必须关注和掌握好动词的“形态”。
一正确理解动词的“形态”
1 “形”--就是指动词的表现形式。在一个语境中，动词可以以谓语形式或非谓语形式来表现自己。谓语动词是主角，而非谓语动词则是配角。由此可见，非谓语动词是为谓语动词服务的。
2.“态”--就是时态和语态。时态与语态是谓语动词的主要表现形式。每一句话的表达都离不开时态或语态。时态表示不同时间发生的动作，语态则表示动作是主动还是被动的。
二．动词“形态”的基本分类
动词按大类来分有两种：1.谓语动词：包括时态、语态、主谓一致和语气；2.非谓语动词：包括不定式、-ing动词和过去分词
三如何掌握动词的“形态”
1.划出句中的动词形式；2.判断句中的动词是谓语还是非谓语；3.将原句的动词部分挖空，然后还原填空（把课文的句子变成动词填空题）
附： 动词填空专练（时态、语态、主谓一致、非谓语动词）示例
• 1.Over the last 25 years,he_____ (break) approximately 93 Guinness records.
• 2.Think about the fine neckadjustments ______ (need) to keep a full bottle of milk on yourhead while you are walking.
• 3.Yet this _____ (talent)sportsman is not a natural athlete.
• 4.______(cover) a mile in the fastest time while____ (do)gymnastically correct lunges____ (be) another event in whichAshrita is outstanding.
• 5.The motivation to keep tryingto break records _____ (come) through his devotion to SriChinmoy.
• 6.LanceArmstrong’sGuinness record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France_____ (set) in 1999 with an average speed of40.27km/hr.
• 7… and by 1996 he____ (become)the world’s number one.
• 8.In 1988, Michellie Joneshelped_____ (establish) the multi-sport event…
• 9.At 12 years old she won aGuinness Record when she became the youngest female ______ (win)the women’sworld title for platform diving…
• 10.At the Sydney Olympics in2000 she won the silver medal in Women’s Triathlon, the first time the event_____ (include) in the Olympic Games.
• 以上句子均来自课本原文的句子，如果平时能够以这种方式去关注动词的形态，就一定能够比较熟练地掌握动词的各种形态，更重要的是可以提高自己在书面表达中动词形式的准确表达。