• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Love Is a Verb is a 2014 documentary film directed by Terry Spencer Hesser and narrated by Ashley Judd. The documentary focuses on the Fethullah Gülen...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • A non-finite verb, in contrast to a finite verb, is a form of a verb that lacks inflection (conjugation) for number or person. In the English language...
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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...
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    The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the...
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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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    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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    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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  • This article describes the conjugation and use of verbs in Slovene. Further information about the grammar of the Slovene language can be found in the...
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