How accurate is the verb finder?

Roughly 90% on standard prose. Edge cases like gerunds (used as nouns) or participles (used as adjectives) may be tagged as verbs.

Are helping verbs counted as verbs?

Yes. 'Has,' 'will,' 'can,' 'do' all count and are tagged as helping verbs.

How is a verb different from a noun?

Verbs describe actions or states; nouns name things. 'Run' is a verb in 'I run' and a noun in 'a long run.' Use our Noun Finder for noun-specific analysis.

Can I find verbs in different tenses?

Yes. The finder detects past (walked), present (walks), progressive (walking), and future (will walk) forms.

Grammar Tool

Free Verb Finder

A verb expresses action or state of being. This finder scans your text and highlights every verb — action verbs ('walk,' 'eat'), linking verbs ('is,' 'seems'), and helping verbs ('has,' 'will'). Useful for grammar exercises, ESL practice, and editing. To find words that modify verbs, see our Adverb Finder; for the actors that perform them, try the Noun Finder.

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Analysis

Found 7 verbs in 19 words (37%).

Breakdown

Action verb4Helping verb3

Highlighted text

She walks every morning and reads the newspaper. The dog has been sleeping for hours. They will leave tomorrow.

How the Verb Finder Works

The finder uses a curated list of 2,000+ common English verbs in all tenses, plus pattern recognition for verb endings (-ed for past tense, -ing for progressive, -s for third-person singular). Helping verbs (be, have, do, will, can, may, etc.) are tagged separately.

Rules & Tips

1Action verbs describe doing

Walk, run, eat, write, think. They tell what the subject does.

2Linking verbs connect subject to description

Is, are, was, were, seem, become, appear, feel. They link the subject to an adjective or noun: 'She is happy.'

3Helping verbs work with main verbs

Has, have, had, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, do, does, did. 'She has been working' — 'has' and 'been' are helpers; 'working' is the main verb.

4Verb endings give clues

-ed = past tense (walked); -ing = present participle (walking); -s = third-person singular present (walks). Not every -ed or -ing word is a verb, but most are.