main verb 
noun Grammar
1The verb in a main clause.An intermediate step is to put the ‘using’ clauses between the object and the main verb, like this....
- Maybe Dickens needed a good sub-editor to remind him that the rules require sentences to contain proper main verbs.
- This was ‘translated’ from German, as shown by the placement of the main verb at the end of the sentence.
2The head of a verb phrase, for example eat in might have been going to eat it.The combination of helping verbs with main verbs creates what are called verb phrases or verb strings....
- When writing the rule, always use the base form of the main verb and any auxiliary verbs.
- It appears that the semi-modals are hybrid forms, combining characteristics of both main verbs and auxiliary verbs.
- Muscovy duck
- Muscovy glass
- muscular
- muscular artery
- muscular Christian
- muscular Christianity
- muscular dystrophy
- muscularis
- muscularise
- muscularised
- muscularis mucosa
- muscularis mucosae
- muscularity
- muscularize
- muscularized
- muscularly
- muscular rheumatism
- muscular sensation
- muscular sense
- muscular sound
- muscular stomach
- muscular tumor
- muscular tumour
- musculated
- musculation