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...

order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition. Others include verbs with prepositions under the...

Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. New verbs (including...

central English modal auxiliary verbs are can (with could), may (with might), shall (with should), will (with would), and must. A few other verbs are usually...

"auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification...

inflected forms of verbs are produced in English, see English verbs. For the grammatical structure of clauses, including word order, see English clause syntax...

auxiliary verbs. Below are some sentences that contain representative auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German and French, with the auxiliary verb marked...

modern English, strong verbs are rare, and they are mostly categorised as irregular verbs. In Old English, meanwhile, strong verbs were much more common...

principal verbs, it may also be used for a wider group of verbs with similar potential functions (like become, get, feel and seem in English); alternatively...

a limited number of verbs, or if it requires the specification of more than one principal part (as with the German strong verbs), views may differ as...

Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic...

forms of verbs, ending in -ing, are always regular. In English, these are used as verbs, adjectives, and nouns.) In the case of modal verbs the present...

weak verbs such as open (present I open, past I opened, past participle I have opened). Not all verbs with a change in the stem vowel are strong verbs, however;...

saying that stative verbs describe situations that are static, or unchanging throughout their entire duration, whereas dynamic verbs describe processes...

rather than by changing the verb's root vowel (as in English I rise~I rose). Whereas the strong verbs are the oldest group of verbs in Germanic, originating...

advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used...

Finite verbs in English usually appear as the leftmost verb in a verb catena. For details of verb inflection in English, see English verbs. In English, a...

auxiliary verb or Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which include...

verb Indo-European copula Go (verb) English grammar English verbs English irregular verbs Wiktionary appendix: Irregular English verbs German verbs de:Liste...

There are about 370 verbs in this group, though a much smaller number are still in frequent use. As with English verbs, French verbs have both non-finite...

Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...

auxiliary verbs (I am going), no other auxiliary verbs are added to negate the clause (I am not going). (Until the period of early Modern English, negation...

objects of a verb are indicated by the verb form. Verbs are then said to agree with their subjects (resp. objects). Many English verbs exhibit subject...

stem. This participle is active in intransitive verbs, e.g. rafte 'gone', but passive in transitive verbs, e.g. nevešte 'written (by someone)'. As well...

many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are provided. Also, there can be other copulative verbs depending on the context...

all verbs; the nouns acquired verb-like characteristics; the range of verbs allowed to introduce the form spread by analogy first to other verbs expressing...

transitive verb or a finite intransitive verb can function as the root of an independent clause. Finite verbs are distinguished from non-finite verbs such as...

partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives. More narrowly, participle...

they, there is no modification for verbs. For pronouns he, she, it, a suffix is added following these rules: For verbs that end in -o, -ch, -sh, -s, -x...

out", "fall down"), and its verbs usually show manner of motion; thus, English is a satellite-framed language. English verbs that are exceptions are mostly...