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A word; a vocable.
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A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
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A part of speech denoting action, occurrence, or existence (state of being). Verbs are words such as notify or write. Verb-making suffixes are -ize and -ify: terror, a noun, becomes terrorize, terrify, verbs; real, an adjective, becomes realize, a verb.
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conveys the action performed by a subject, expresses the state of that subject, or links the subject to a complement.
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the part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
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a word used to express an action or state of being. Finite verbs have five variables: person, number, tense, mood, and voice.
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a word that describes an action
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that part of a predicate expressing an action, state of being, or condition, telling what a subject is or does. Verbs inflect to show tense (time). The principal parts of a verb are the three basic forms from which all tenses are made: the base infinitive, the past tense, and the past participle.
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A Verb (V) is a lexical category in the grammar made up of words such as like and listen. In UG theory it is the head of the lexical Verb Phrase (VP). Different types of verbs specify whether there is a need for: no Object Eric fainted, one object Billie sang the blues two objects Mary gave the money to her brother, an animate Subject the man fainted not the rock fainted, and so on.
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a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence
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a content word that denotes an action or a state
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a action word
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a doing word
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a label for an action (including "actions" such as simply being alive, existing, having, possessing, etc
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a language-independent string that identifies an action that can be taken on a file
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a lexical category, and every lexical category has a little L attached to it
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a method, function, subroutine, whatever
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an action, or something that someone does, and present tense means that something is happening now, as opposed to happening in the past or the future
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an action word
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a part of discourse with endings to show tense, person, and number, and indicating action or being acted upon
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a string used to specify a particular action that an item supports
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a type of word that describes action or a state of being, like wiggle , walk , run , jump , be , do , have , or think
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a user-initiated action, generally from a menu item, that causes the object to do something interesting
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a word expressing action, occurrence, existence, or state of being
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a word indicating either an action or a state
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a word like go, take, give, remember
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a word or phrase indicating an action
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a word that can show action
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a word that identifies action, existence, or state of being
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a word that identifies an action
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a word that indicates action, or some such definition
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a word that is used to express action or a state
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a word that means an event or an action, and it combines things involved in the event in a sentence
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a word that shows action (dance, sing, walk, run, etc
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a word that tells what is being done - like walk, or fly or swim- anything like that
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a word that tells what the subject of the sentence does
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a word used as a predicate, to say something to orabout some person or thing
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a word which describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something)
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a word which expresses action or state of being
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a word which identifies action, existence or state of being
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a word which is used in order to make an exertion
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a word which is used to indicate an action
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a word which signifies action or the doing of something
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A word which specifies the action or condition in which the subject of a sentence participates. Predicates comprise a verb with whatever modifiers or complements accompany it. Friends and neighbours stopped by to offer help after the event. You seem unhappy. Verbs are capable of being inflected for tense (and number): stop (stops) stopped stopped bite (bites) bit bitten
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A word that stands for an action or condition — "to run" or "to be."
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a word that expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being. It is the grammatical center of a predicate. For example, "verb" is a verb in the sentence "It is possible to verb any noun".
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a word which tells you what people or things do and what happens to them, e.g. 'the buttons on a mouse are used to select items at which the mouse points'
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Verbs are words that describe actions, for example, He was walking through the park, or states, for example, this food smells good.
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Traditionally, the part of speech which expresses an action, event or state.
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(1) A reserved word that expresses an action to be taken by an application programming interface (API), a compiler, or an object program.(2) In SNA, the general name for a transaction program's request for communication services.
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A word hich is used with a subject to say what someone or something does, what they are, or what happens to them. E.g. She tries to write a book on the betterment of human race. Please refer to the Collins Cobuild English Usage (1992) for detailed classifications of verbs.
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The grammatical element that expresses action, position, process and state is a verb.
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The word in a sentence that does action.
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Almost every sentence needs a verb. They are sometimes called doing words, because they show what is happening. For example: I write to my mother every week. See also - auxiliary verbs, intransitive verbs, modal verbs, transitive verbs.
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a term expressing an action or a state of being
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A word or group of words that expresses the action or indicates the state of being of the subject. Verbs activate sentences.
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The word in a sentence that indicates action.
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"doing words" like "be", "sang", "eats"
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A Lexical category/word which has the morphological properties that it can carry a range of Tense/participle inflections--{s}, {ed}, {ing}, {en}.
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A word that expresses existence, action, or occurrence.
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A word like (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin. A verb describes an action or state. trikili Aug 19 2004, 09:54 PM Tớ thì chẳng phải "cao thủ" gì, nhưng hôm nay đọc được cái này hơi bị lạ nên chịu khó gõ lên cho mí bạn xem thử nè: There are basically four types of conditional, though combination of the four are also posible depending on the context.
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