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verb
[ vurb ]
noun
- any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
verb
/ vɜːb /
noun
- (in traditional grammar) any of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc. In English, such words as run, make, do, and the like are verbs
- in modern descriptive linguistic analysis
- a word or group of words that functions as the predicate of a sentence or introduces the predicate
- ( as modifier )
a verb phrase
verb
- A word that represents an action or a state of being. Go , strike , travel , and exist are examples of verbs. A verb is the essential part of the predicate of a sentence. The grammatical forms of verbs include number , person , and tense . ( See auxiliary verb , infinitive , intransitive verb , irregular verb , participle , regular verb , and transitive verb .)
Grammar Note
Derived Forms
- ˈverbless, adjective
Other Words From
- verbless adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of verb1
Example Sentences
Thus the adoption of any particular verb is a matter of taste, not a question of absolute correctness.
The term “gestation,” for instance, is derived from the Latin verb gestāre, used to describe a mammal carrying a burden.
As with any emergent technology where an action is involved, the brand becomes the verb.
The verb shovel is not a figure of speech; a garden shovel actually is used to serve the oysters.
Their Dutch nickname, putterje, comes from the verb putten, meaning to draw water from a well.
The verb (—) in the Hebrew, when connected with the name of God in different other passages, has the same import.
Here ends Chaucer's portion of the translation, in the middle of an incomplete sentence, without any verb.
Observe that the word Christus has no verb following it; it is practically an objective case, governed by thanke in l. 168. '
Both in the present passage and in the Pardoner's Prologue the verb to erme is used with the same sb., viz.
Ethel could not help saying, "How did you find out the meaning of that word, Tom, if you didn't look out the verb?"
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