Verbs
are simply known as the ‘action’ words – may it be mental, physical or mechanical.
When verbs are paired with auxiliaries (helping verbs), they are known as verb
phrase. These helping verbs always go first before the actual verb. Verb tenses
are used to describe how the verbs work in people’s everyday lives. The verbs
may be simple present or past verbs or verbs with helping verbs like has, be,
can, etc.
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In
this sentence: <span>I have taken the grocery bags out of the car
already. The verb tense ‘have taken’ is a present perfect tense. It is an
action done in the past and still on going in the present.</span></span>
Answer: To entertain
Explanation: The primary purpose of the crab that played with the sea is to provide entertainment to the readers as the author does this by the imagination of the creation done by the eldest magician.
The excerpt is given as thus: "Before the high and far-off times, o my best beloved, came the time of the very beginnings; and that was in the days when the eldest magician was getting things ready...one by one he took all the beasts and birds and fishes and told them what to play at"
