In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of a verb and its arguments except the subject of an independent clause or coordinate...
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considered: tense phrase (TP), where the verb phrase is the complement of an abstract "tense" element; aspect phrase; agreement phrase and so on. Further...
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Ditransitive verbs (sometimes called Vg verbs after the verb give) precede either two noun phrases or a noun phrase and then a prepositional phrase often led...
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Chinese grammar (redirect from Chinese verb)
subject–object–verb languages, such as Turkish and Japanese. Chinese frequently uses serial verb constructions, which involve two or more verbs or verb phrases in...
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Infinitive (redirect from Verb infinitive)
infinitives. An infinitive phrase is a verb phrase constructed with the verb in infinitive form. This consists of the verb together with its objects and...
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English grammar (redirect from English noun phrase)
implications. For example, a verb phrase consists of a verb together with any objects and other dependents; a prepositional phrase consists of a preposition...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
subject noun phrase and a predicate verb phrase. Another issue is verb agreement when both subject and predicative expression are noun phrases (and differ...
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the term "phrasal verb" primarily to verbs with particles in order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition...
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in noun phrases and verb phrases, which have significant variation among and within languages. Languages may be head-marking in verb phrases and dependent-marking...
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tritransitive. In English a tritransitive verb features an indirect object, a direct object, and a prepositional phrase – as in I'll trade you this bicycle...
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rather than prepositions, to place auxiliary verbs after the action verb, to place genitive noun phrases before the possessed noun, to place a name before...
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that gerunds are noun phrases with verb phrase heads. Other linguists, such as Richard Hudson, argue that gerunds are both verbs and nouns. Yet others...
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every verb phrase had a subject, even if none was expressed, (though Joan Bresnan and Michael Brame disagreed). As a result, every verb phrase (VP) was...
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verbs have been construed as any verb that independently functions as a predicate verb or one that marks a verb phrase in a predicate. Under the first...
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In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes...
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that determines the category of a phrase: for example, in a verb phrase, the head is a verb. Therefore, head initial would be "VO" languages and head final...
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Participle (redirect from Participle verb)
partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives. More narrowly, participle...
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Do-support (redirect from Do (verb))
instances do may be said to be acting as a pro-verb since it effectively takes the place of a verb or verb phrase: did substitutes for fell asleep. As in the...
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Modern standard English has various verb forms, including: Finite verb forms such as go, goes and went Nonfinite forms such as (to) go, going and gone...
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Voice (grammar) (redirect from Voice of the verb)
grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified...
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linguistics, verb phrase ellipsis (VP ellipsis or VPE) is a type of elliptical construction and a type of anaphora in which a verb phrase has been left...
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In linguistic typology, a verb–object–subject or verb–object–agent language, which is commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA, is one in which most sentences...
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an auxiliary accompanying the infinitive coger, used here to form a verb phrase, the perfect present in Spanish. (I) have grabbed your pencil = 'I have...
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Gerund (redirect from Continuous verb forms)
gerund may function syntactically as the head of a verb phrase: for instance, the gerund of a transitive verb may take a direct object in the accusative case...
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Khmer language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
and particles. The topic and subject are noun phrases, predicates are verb phrases and another noun phrase acting as an object or verbal attribute often...
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patterning such as the VO languages Chinese, with the adpositional phrase before the verb, and Finnish, which has postpositions, but there are few other profoundly...
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In linguistics, a pro-verb is a verb or partial phrase that substitutes for a contextually recognizable verb phrase (via a process known as grammatical...
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('word', 'verb'), and the nominal suffix - ium. The term implies that the principal function of adverbs is to act as modifiers of verbs or verb phrases. An...
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nonfinite verb may constitute: an infinitive verb, including the auxiliary verb have as it occurs within a verb phrase that is predicated by a modal verb. a...
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Arapaho language (section Syntax of noun/verb phrases)
sentence contains a verb and a single noun phrase, the noun phrase can either precede or follow the verb. Preposing the noun phrase, however, gives it...
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