Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic...
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A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...
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dominance of the Google search engine, to google has become a transitive verb. The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World...
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Look up weak verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Weak verb may refer to: Germanic weak verb, verbs in Germanic languages that form their preterites...
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Look up strong verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strong verb may refer to: Germanic strong verb, a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes...
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Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to...
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reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...
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regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...
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Japanese conjugation (redirect from Te form of Japanese verb)
Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...
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In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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English language (category Subject–verb–object languages)
formed around a verb in the present or preterite form. In clauses with auxiliary verbs, they are the finite verbs and the main verb is treated as a subordinate...
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verb is a verb that contextually complements either an explicit subject or – in the imperative mood – an implicit subject. A finite transitive verb or...
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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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In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages...
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Grammatical conjugation (redirect from Verb conjugation)
derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb break can be conjugated...
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transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...
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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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or fientive verb is a verb that shows continued or progressive action on the part of the subject. This is the opposite of a stative verb. Actions denoted...
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In traditional grammar and guide books, a linking verb is a verb that describes the subject by connecting it to a predicate adjective or predicate noun...
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Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) verbs conjugate according to mood, tense, person, number, and gender. Hindustani inflection is markedly simpler in comparison...
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French conjugation (redirect from Basic French Verb Conjugations)
French conjugation is the variation in the endings of French verbs (inflections) depending on the person (I, you, we, etc), tense (present, future, etc...
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Chinese grammar (redirect from Chinese verbs)
subject–object–verb languages, such as Turkish and Japanese. Chinese frequently uses serial verb constructions, which involve two or more verbs or verb phrases...
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traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...
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Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are...
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some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...
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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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V2 word order (redirect from Verb-Second)
In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position...
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Grammatical aspect (redirect from Verb aspect)
which is an inherent feature of verbs or verb phrases and is determined by the nature of the situation that the verb describes. The most fundamental aspectual...
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