单词 | verb |
释义 | verb (once / 361 pages) n A verb is the part of speech that indicates what something does, or what it is. It's also the basic component of the predicate of a sentence. You may know that a verb is just another part of speech, like a noun or an adverb. The verb, however, can be in different tenses, meaning the action might have happened in the past or it might be now, or it could even be planned for the future. So the verb walk in the past tense would be walked, and in the future would be will walk. WORD FAMILYverb: verbal, verbify, verbs+/nonverbal: nonverbally/verbal: nonverbal, verbalise, verbalism, verbalize, verbally/verbalise: verbalisation, verbalised, verbaliser/verbalised: unverbalised/verbalism: verbalisms/verbalization: verbalizations/verbalize: verbalization, verbalized, verbalizer, verbalizes, verbalizing/verbalized: unverbalized/verbally: non-verbally USAGE EXAMPLESJust as old is the verb form, for working with such a utensil. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) The word is derived from the French verb “manger,” meaning “to eat.” Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Preceded by George W Bush, he repaired the US’s image in most parts of the world, returned verbs to sentences and facts to science. The Guardian(Dec 10, 2016) 1n a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence Hypo|Hyper reflexive verb a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent copula, copulative, linking verban equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence frequentativea verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action content word, open-class word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned 2n the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence Hypo|Hyper auxiliary verb a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with infinitivethe uninflected form of the verb participial, participlea non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses phrasal verban English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb forma verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical intransitive, intransitive verb, intransitive verb forma verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object split infinitivean infinitive with an adverb between `to' and the verb (e.g., `to boldly go') modal, modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verban auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality present participlea participle expressing present action; in English is formed by adding -ing past participle, perfect participlea participle that expresses completed action doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb forma transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object major form class any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
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