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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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...
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order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition. Others include verbs with prepositions under the...
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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...
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"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...
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inflected forms of verbs are produced in English, see English verbs. For the grammatical structure of clauses, including word order, see English clause syntax...
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auxiliary verbs. Below are some sentences that contain representative auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German and French, with the auxiliary verb marked...
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modern English, strong verbs are rare, and they are mostly categorised as irregular verbs. In Old English, meanwhile, strong verbs were much more common...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from English verb to be)
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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saying that stative verbs describe situations that are static, or unchanging throughout their entire duration, whereas dynamic verbs describe processes...
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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;...
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advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used...
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verb Indo-European copula Go (verb) English grammar English verbs English irregular verbs Wiktionary appendix: Irregular English verbs German verbs de:Liste...
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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...
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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...
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Grammatical conjugation (redirect from Verbs conjugation)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Japanese conjugation (redirect from Japanese Verbs)
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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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...
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many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are provided. Also, there can be other copulative verbs depending on the context...
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Gerund (redirect from English gerund)
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...
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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...
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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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Simple present (redirect from Simple present (English))
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...
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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...
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