Go
- change towards some undesirable states
- crazy, mad, wrong, bad, cold, deaf, funny, limp, quiet, red, wild
Mama will go crazy.

Grow
- gradual evolution
- angry, big, bright, cold, dark, hot, large, old, pale, tall, tired, warm, weak, bigger, darker, larger, louder, older, shorter, smaller, stronger, warmer, weaker, worse
We should grow old here together.

Prove
- costly, decisive, difficult, fatal, necessary, popular, possible, successful, suitable, useful, wrong
- often used with non-personal subjects
Looking for tourist highlights in Montepulciano can prove difficult.

Come
- a change to a more favourable condition
- alive, awake, clean, loose, short, true, unstuck
It literally is a dream come true.

Turn
- a change in appearance especially a change in colour
- black, brown, (bright) red, white, pale
She had turned pale and her voice shook.

Turn out, End up, Wind up
- phrasal verbs used as resulting copular verbs

Structure and meaning distinctions in the verb phrase

The most fundamental distinction among English verb phrases is between the verb phrases (those with a finite verb) and non-finite phrases (those which contain only non-finite verb).
We shall concentrate on finite verb phrases, which in English vary respect to the following six major structural distinctions:
tense – present or past
aspect – unmarked/simple, perfect (has been), progressive (is seeing) or perfect progressive (has been seeing)
voice – active or passive
modality – unmarked, modal
negation – positive v. negative

The relationship between form and meaning is easy to see by contrasting verb tense and time meaning:

Present (habitual) time with present tense
He goes there a lot.

Past time with present tense (the historic present)
I wanted just a small box. He wasn't satisfied with it – He goes and makes a big one as well.

In terms of time, different forms can be used to express the same meaning. For example future time is express with a present tense verb or modal will + infinitive:

Future time with present tense
Goalkeeper Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury.

Future time with modal will
This part of the project will go ahead extremely rapidly.

Tense

Simple present tense referring to the present time
- to describe a state existing at the present time, and to describe present behaviour, to refer to habitual action:
I want a packet of crisps.
She's vegetarian but she eats chicken.