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Meanings of verb in English
Class of words that, from the semantic point of view, contain the notions of action, process or state, and, from the syntactic point of view, exert the core function of the sentence predicate.
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Usage of verb in English
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You used the verb meaning 'to place among' rather than 'to liken'.
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The verb in the original is thus used in the 4th conj.
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Why do you think Shakespeare uses the word 'gentle' as a verb?
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You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
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The verb follows the subject, and the object complement follows the verb.
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A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another.
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But the use of the verb set the children off at once.
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Almost every verb or adjective they use has a connected numerical clarifier.
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How important is the poetic beauty and depth of archaic verb endings:
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I had used archive as a verb, so I must be okay.
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Some verb-doubled constructions have special meanings not immediately obvious from the verb.
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Similarly, the English verb 'to hack' has been seen conjugated in Swedish.
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The subject to this verb may be either Cellini or the doctor.
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Three-word slogans, starting with a verb, are the currency of the populist.
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But to rejuvenate that we have to make the verb meaningful again.
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SOCRATES: You have heard the common explanation of the verb 'to know'?
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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