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  • A '''verb''' is a word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generall
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  • ...article focuses to much on English grammar and does not describe the term 'Verb' in it's full sense. [[User:Derek Harkness|Derek Harkness]] 22:08, 3 May 20 That's a really really lousy beginning. It neglects the fact that a verb is a word or a phrase in a language. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] 2
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  • ...get its past participle, ''written''. So now we have our entire irregular verb summarised as: ''write, wrote, written''. ...compare ''go, went, gone'' in English, where ''went'' was once part of the verb ''wend''.
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Verb]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • ...th the gender of the subject. In other than the Indo-European languages, a verb form may even contain more information (i.e. in polysynthetic languages). [
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  • 1. transitive verb pay attention to something: to pay attention to something, especially so as 2. transitive verb control something: to remain aware of the need to control something
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  • ...umber is know as the [[case (grammar)|case]] of the verb. For example, the verb 'to be' has the singular case 'is' and plural case 'are'. ==Subject noun and verb number agreement==
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  • ...]]. (iii) (verb) To provide financial resources to pay for a project. (iv)(verb) To convert short-term debt into long-term debt.
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  • | pagename = Verb | abc = Verb
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  • ...ental' and 'cognitive' characterize activities of the 'mind', originally a verb, Sanskrit, 'manyate', he thinks.
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  • ...article focuses to much on English grammar and does not describe the term 'Verb' in it's full sense. [[User:Derek Harkness|Derek Harkness]] 22:08, 3 May 20 That's a really really lousy beginning. It neglects the fact that a verb is a word or a phrase in a language. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] 2
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  • ...get its past participle, ''written''. So now we have our entire irregular verb summarised as: ''write, wrote, written''. ...compare ''go, went, gone'' in English, where ''went'' was once part of the verb ''wend''.
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  • The arrangement of the [[subject]], [[verb]] and [[object]] within a [[sentence]].
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  • Grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than on
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  • ...nowledge of things taken from the report of others. The origin is from the verb ishmi, ‘I know’; and hence it is, that among the ancients several of th
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  • ...ation of headings, body text and other items that make up a printed page. (Verb) Also, the actual process of designing and putting in place those elements.
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  • ...a biological or physiological or group such as males or females; ''sex'' (verb) may include activities associated with mating or reproductive practices am
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  • {{r|Respect (transitive verb)}}
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  • ...cross the structures of languages or within a single language, e.g. if the verb precedes the object in a sentence, the language will have prepositions and
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  • ...homophones have the same spelling, they are also [[homonyms]]: the [[modal verb]] 'will' as in 'will they ever come?' sounds and also looks exactly like th ...have different pronunciations, and are [[heteronyms]], as for example the verb 'to tear', meaning 'to rip', and 'tear', as in 'tearful'.<ref>In the notati
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  • ====Subject-Verb-Object positioning==== ...types is determined by the basic order of [[subject (grammar)|subject]], [[verb]], and [[direct object]] in sentences:
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  • The three basic components of a [[sentence]], the subject, object, and verb, can appear in one of six orders: SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS, OSV, and VOS. The la
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  • ...rom the universal (cross-language) [[Semantic primes|semantic prime]], the verb 'think', indefinable by reference to words or concepts like 'mental' or 'co 'Mental' and 'cognitive' characterize activities of the 'mind', originally a verb, Sanskrit, 'manyate', he thinks.<ref name=mw3/>
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  • ...'parts of of speech.' The word ''fish'', for instance, can function as a verb, a noun, or an [[adjective]], depending on its syntactic position in a sent ...rrogative sentences (questions), English nearly always uses a SVO (Subject-verb-object) order.
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ...ad of ''tú'' as well as alternative second person conjugation of certain [[verb]]s. It is primarily used in [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]] and [[Guatemala]], h
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  • ...linguistics)|tense]] only has one [[conjugation|conjugated]] form of the [[verb]] for all persons. There is also no [[grammatical gender]], which means tha ...se', incorporating ''-ig-'' into the verb to redundantly indicate that the verb has an object. Similarly, since word order can also indicate the role a wor
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  • '''Receipt''' can also be used as a verb: ''to receipt'': to acknowledge receipt of something, to give a receipt, t
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  • {{rpl|Place (verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • | pagename = Principal parts (verb) | abc = Principal parts (verb)
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ===As a verb===
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  • * Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, et al.: ''Zahlen''. <br> Springer-Verlag. 3. verb. Aufl. 1992 (2., überarb. u. erg. Aufl. 1988) (1983) <br> ''Numbers''. Wit
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ...ami-''jinja'' (興玉神) or 'Frog Shrine',<ref>'[[Frog]]' (蛙 ''kaeru'') and the verb 'come back' (帰る ''kaeru'') sound very similar in [[Japanese language|Ja
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  • ...wed by the suffixes -''na''-, -''kat''- and -''ta'', which indicate it is verb-like negative adjective.</ref> -''na''- 'negative', and ''-kat-'' and ''-ta ...i]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further ''[[kana]]'' scripts, ''[[hi
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  • ...d verb-final phrases, and if we find prepositions, we can predict that the verb will be initial. ...a statement that applies to all languages, such as ''All languages have [[verb]]s''.
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  • A '''verb''' is a word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generall
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • *the verb ''to curry'' means "to groom", clean, tan (as in leather) or beat. "to curr
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Verb]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • The term "Haredi" comes from a [[Hebrew]] verb meaning "to tremble."
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  • ...The name derives from the Greek adjective αριστος, meaning "best", and the verb κρατειν, meaning "to rule". Aristocracy was once one of the most com
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  • cf. ''noun'' '''énvelôpe''': ''verb'' '''envélop
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  • ...creation of something new. The word is used both as a [[noun]] and as a [[verb]]. The term is applied to many different fields of endeavour, from the manu
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  • ...class or ''[[lexical category]]'', distinct from other classes such as ''[[verb]]s'' and ''[[adjective]]s''. [[Word (language)|Words]] may be used as nouns ...e|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence.
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  • ...ng quantified. (In context, ''kippu-o''<ref>''-o'' marks the object of the verb.</ref> is often dropped since it is clear from ''-mai'' what is being reque ...being marked for number. For example, the [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] verb ''tudni'' 'to know' changes depending on number, but also person: ''én tud
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  • The verb ''to curry'' means "to groom", clean, tan (as in leather) or beat. ''To cur
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  • ...'''Díd hê ûse to gô thére?''', however, '''ûse''' *yoôss is an infinitive verb, not a noun. (While no difference in pronunciation is distinguishable, bein
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  • *[[Verb]]
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  • ''noun, verb'' '''státic
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  • ...matical aspect|aspect]] suffix, and a modal suffix. Consider the following verb: |+ Verb form '''ke:ka'''
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  • '''Mine''' (verb) is a military term for mounting a long term stealth attack on static enemi
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  • 2nd sentence of 2nd para lacks a main verb. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 00:07, 11 January 2008 (CST)
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  • ...not use an inflectional future tense; this is expressed using the auxilary verb ''fog'' or verbal prefixes known as ''coverbs''.
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  • ...It is also used to describe adjectives which are linked to the noun via a verb: ''the car is blue'' (predicative) versus ''blue car'' (attributive). I thi
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  • ...ves from the Manchu name Mukden, which is said to be related to the Manchu verb "to rise." I'm ignorant of Manchu, but Chinese dictionaries consistently t
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  • ...ription must refer to the sentence structure: move the initial auxiliary [[verb]] of the main [[clause]] ahead of the subject [[noun phrase]].
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  • ...is perhaps a consensus that needs to be reached '''''[[Respect (transitive verb)|here]]''''' before I feel inclined to continue with some of our other (qui ...nth=-1 deletion history], it seems you have deleted [[Respect (transitive verb)]], not [[Respect]]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 23:27, 14 F
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  • ...imals and in such context is not slang. The word ''whelp'', taken from the verb ''to whelp'', to give birth to a pup, is also heard, especially for a newbo
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  • ...glish'') is the [[plant]] that provides [[pollen]] in [[pollination]]. The verb form '''to pollenize''', is to be the sire of the next plant generation.
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  • ...sition to nominalize actions, in this case to nominalize the action of the verb form of 'mind'&mdash;if you don't mind&mdash;which derives from a Proto-Ind ...ed by different aspects of the thinking process in different senses of the verb. Such verbal expressions as "mind what I tell you", "mind your own business
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  • ...rker.</ref> hele no<ref>Marker indicating that ''hele'' is an intransitive verb.</ref>'' (Pidgin Hawaiian)<ref>Siegel (2008: 82).</ref>
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  • '''ímplement''' ''noun'', '''ímplemént''' ''verb'' '''impréss''' ''verb
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  • ...nts throughout the world. "Confit" is derived from ''confire'', the French verb meaning here "to preserve by means of a gentle cooking in fat." Large piece
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  • ...ticiple are not formed regularly: '''to béar''' has the [[principal parts (verb)|principal parts]] '''béar, bŏre, bŏrn''', which means that there is no
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  • ...ct the vowel too, changing '''bāth''' ''noun'' (unvoiced) to '''bâthe''' ''verb'' (voiced). ...déath, bôth, bāth, pāth, dòth, bréath''' (noun, cf. voiced '''th''' in the verb '''brêathe'''); but the common preposition '''wíth''' has the voiced soun
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  • ...ipe off' or 'wipe away' is more accurate than "vanish" because the Persian verb is active and transitive."
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  • ...class or ''[[lexical category]]'', distinct from other classes such as ''[[verb]]''. English [[Word (language)|words]] may be used as nouns if they accept ...e|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence of the [[language (gene
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  • ''verb'' '''impáct ''verb'' '''contráct
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  • ...ading ''SHIN'' in the noun ''shuushin'' 'retiring', but in the more common verb 寝る ''neru'' 'to lie down [go to sleep]', the Japanese reading ''ne'' oc ...ned'. However, as 取って, ''totte'' represents a form of the full, meaningful verb 'take', with its base form 取る ''toru''.</ref>
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  • ...e is typically missing [[inflection]]s such as the ''-s'' applied to the [[verb]] in [[sentence]]s like ''she dances''. These errors seem to resist correct
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  • ...iciple are not formed regularly: '''to béar''', has the [[principal parts (verb)|principal parts]] '''béar, bŏre, bŏrn'''/'''bŏrne''', which means that ...ple, people are still described as being '''behôlden''' to others, but the verb itself, '''behôld''', meaning 'look at', is nowadays only used poetically
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  • ...|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (encase [verb], in case, incase [obsolete variant of the verb encase]) ...|"itinerate"|itinerate|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (itinerant [adjective], itinerate [verb])
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  • ''verb, past'' '''léd''' = ''metal'' '''léad ''verb, present'' '''lêad
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  • '''rámpâge''' ''noun, verb '''rebél''' ''verb''
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  • * {{search link|"knifes"|knifes|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (knifes [verb]; knives [plural noun])
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  • ...guish it from another noun use - would you need it to distinguish from the verb? Should we have Fiddle (Music)? I think not.[[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]
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  • ...), better known as the 'Frog Shrine',<ref>'[[Frog]]' (蛙 ''kaeru'') and the verb 'come back' (帰る ''kaeru'') sound very similar in [[Japanese language|Ja
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  • ...ress (linguistics)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora]] system
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  • ''verb'' '''mây''' = ''month'' '''Mây verb is two words: '''breâkaway
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  • '''gáses''' ''noun'' = '''gásses''' ''verb '''gél''' = '''jéll''' ''alternative spelling of verb'' = '''Géll'''
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  • ...tense]]). Adding these endings is called [[conjugation|conjugating]] for [[verb]]s and [[declension|declining]] for [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s.
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  • ...[[Iroquoian languages]], for example, you get nouns incorporated into the verb. We ''could'' have an [[English nouns]] article, I suppose, to move the mat ...resembles a dictionary entry. Yes, it discusses its use a noun, though the verb is more common. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 16:22, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
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  • * In a sentence, however complex, only one finite verb occurs, normally at the end, preceded if necessary by a number of gerunds. * All of the positive verb forms have their corresponding negative counterparts, [[Negative Verbs]].
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  • ...in the original. The word "ship" is used in the fan fiction community as a verb - so one might say that a story "ships" two characters, meaning they have a
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  • ...s several grammatical and syntactical features, such as a highly irregular verb for "to be," a cadre of surviving "strong" verbs with different past and pr
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  • ''verb'' -zíz '''abûses ''singular verb'' '''líves
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  • '''fêed''' ''verb'' cf. '''féd''' ''past'', '''foôd''' ''noun '''fítted''' is the past tense of '''fít''', a regular verb
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  • ...ralian outback". Sometimes, one must resort to using a verb (rowing), but verb phrases (rowing in Cape Cod) are to be avoided. Avoid articles, adjectives
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  • What would be an example of a plural verb? --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 10:07, 14 October 2007 (CDT)
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  • ...word is first attested in literature around 1548 as a noun, and 1581 as a verb. It is related to the much older word 'blear' (c. 1300), describing an obje
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  • ...rasserie]]s. The origin of the name is uncertain and far from obvious: the verb ''croquer'' means to scrunch or crunch (or to sketch a drawing), and ''mons
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  • '''verbâtim ''noun, verb'' '''loôm
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  • ...norsk}} {{pl|Okina}} {{pl|Persian language|Persian}} {{pl|Principal parts (verb)}} {{pl|Schwa}}; ''Music'': {{pl|Cover version}} {{pl|Mezzo TV}} {{pl|Rock
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  • ...ress (linguistics)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora (linguist
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  • ...of consonants. The second-syllable stress of "compute" is because it's a verb (compare "REcord" and "reCORD") and/or because "com" is a prefix. The stre :There is an oversimplified 'rule' of English which says that verb stress is on the 'second' or 'last' syllable, as in 'reBEL against'. This l
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  • '''lây''' ''table, egg, snooker'' is a verb in its own right, past and past participle both '''lâid'''; even native sp ...''' ''leave, leaf''—plural of '''lêaf''' ''tree'' and -'''s''' form of the verb '''lêave''' ''go
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  • ...377 Blue Book of Chess], 1847) but no longer (unless very informally); the verb 'to castle' is however still the only correct term used to refer to the dou
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  • ...I first saw the title, I took "licensing" to be an adjective rather than a verb. I expected an article on large corporations that hold licenses for many s
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  • '''perféct''' ''verb '''permít''' ''verb'', '''përmit''' ''noun
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  • ...organism". Therein might lie the problem. We might solve it by coining a verb: 'organisimizing' [OR--guh-NIHZ-ih-MY-zing], from 'to organisimize'. It se
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  • ...[[grammar]] of Welsh differs from that of English in many respects: the [[verb]] is the first major constituent in the [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]
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  • ...riants. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is required to
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  • ...e sentence about recessive genes needs to be reconsidered. The use of the verb “show” is problematic, since you and I know that “show” is more oft
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  • *A default subject-verb-object word order; ...e words to indicate [[tense (linguistics)|tense]], usually preceding the [[verb]];
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  • == Missing verb? == ...dependent spiritual or divine powers ever account for events, and [MISSING VERB HERE?] that natural forces always explain events..."
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  • ...hang down" (and is also a [[cognate (linguistics)|cognate]] of the English verb ''depend''). ...', because the choice between these two forms determines which form of the verb is to be used. In contrast, however, no syntactic rule of English cares abo
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  • ...missed. I agree with you that an article should have things like subject-verb agreement fixed before approval. --[[User:Catherine Woodgold|Catherine Woo
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  • ...ymous with 'show' and is the correct word. I don't regard 'evidence' as a verb at all. Do you want to change it back or shall I? - [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Th ...we could let it do the job twice, and just drop 'evidence', which is not a verb in the standard, non-technical English we are supposed to be favouring on C
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  • ...An adjective modifies a noun or another adjective. An adverb modifies the verb. So in choosing the word we have to decide whither we are saying that the s
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  • '''wíll''' ''verb'' = '''Wíll''' ''William'' '''wrêathe''' ''verb'' voiced '''th''', as in '''brêathe
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  • ...can]] from the original [[Greek]] ''thriambos'', a 'Hymn to Dionysus'. The verb is first recorded 1483.
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  • ...passive voice, whenever I can make an agent do the action with a stronger verb, trying to enliven the sentence. You give the reader full stops, so she has
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  • ...is a place where natural resources are extracted from the ground. To mine (verb) is to engage in processes of extraction from those places, and mining refe
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  • ====Verb Tense==== ...roval should be hung up on strictly combing through the article for proper verb-tenses. But, if another editor wishes to make this an issue, I won't get i
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  • ...d [[preposition]]s, and certain verb features are marked using [[auxiliary verb]]s. ...the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is [[Subject Object Verb]]. Some rare archaisms allow for different word orders.
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  • ...such as English have nouns and verbs. A noun identifies an object while a verb identifies an action or process. Thus the sentence "Please lift the tray." ...n the second paragraph in this discussion. My intention was that noun and verb are universal concepts in natural language and are familiar to any young st
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  • The term "rigging" is also used as a verb, to describe the physical act of hanging lights, sound, or scenery in a the
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  • ...betakunakatta'', then, is not really a verb in the same way the 'eat' is a verb in English, in that it behaves somewhat like an adjective in Japanese.</ref ...i]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further scripts, ''[[hiragana]]'' (�
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  • '''abûse''' noun, -ss; verb, -z '''accéss''' ''verb'' *əxéss, cf. '''excéss''', *ixéss ([[minimal pair]])
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  • '''deféct''' ''nation (verb) '''detâil''' ''verb, AmE noun
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  • "Blog" is a shortening of "we'''b log'''". Blog can also be used as a verb to refer to adding an entry about a topic to a blog, as in "I blogged about
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  • * {{search link|"thieve"|thieve|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (thief [noun], thieve [verb])
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  • The verb ‘to graduate’ is quite broad, and one can graduate from, for example, k
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  • '''breâkaway''' ''adjective'' cf. '''breâk awây''' ''verb'' '''breâkdown''' ''noun'' cf. '''breâk dòwn''' ''verb''
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  • ...ther doubtful sentence in that section: "In the book of Esther, there is a verb that means "to become a Jew," though presumably again with an ethno-geograp
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  • * {{search link|followup||ns0|ns14|ns100}} (follow up [verb], follow-up [adjective], followup [noun])
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  • ...f>It is preferred to write ''has mass'' instead of ''weighs'', because the verb ''to weigh'' includes the gravitation of the Earth, which varies over the s
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  • ''BrE verb'' '''práctíse''' = ''noun, AmE verb'' '''práctíce either syllable stressed ''noun = verb'' '''fînánce
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  • ;'''Grammar''': Distracters do not match the verb tense of the stem, or there is not a match between articles ("a", "an", "th
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  • '''mándâte''' ''noun''; mandâte, ''verb'' '''móderate''' ''tempered'', '''móderâte''' ''verb
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  • #In addition to the endings, the augment a- is by default added before the verb stem but after any prefix(es), in the imperfect, aorist and conditional. ...erbs are mainly about stems. There are three different stems for a regular verb: perfect, aorist and the rest. The relation among these varies with conjuga
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  • '''envélop''' ''verb'' '''éxcërpt''' ''noun'', '''excërpt''' ''verb
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  • ...' ''vs.'' ''ne'' 'of it' and ''sé'' 'itself' ''vs.'' ''se'' 'if'; and some verb forms, ''e.g.'' 'vedé'. The symbol ''ó'' can be used for disambiguation, ...", ''kontroller'' is the noun "controls". The simple past of the (disused) verb ''å fare'', "to travel", is ''fór'', to distinguish it from ''for'' ("for
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  • ...seudo-statements can arise. One source of mistakes is the ambiguity of the verb 'to be', which is sometimes used as a copula ("I am hungry") and sometimes
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  • ...t if a subject is plural, and the predicate nominative singular, then the "verb" goes with the number of the subject, even if the two are in contradictions
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  • ...oximity to the speaker, and a past tense formed by means of an [[auxiliary verb]] "to have", followed by a [[past tense|past]] [[passive voice|passive]] [[ ...the sentence, followed by има "to have", and the passive participle of the verb in its uninflected form. This is common in [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
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  • ...grammar]] differs from that of English in several ways: for example, the [[verb]] is the first major constituent in the [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]
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  • cf. verbs in -'''the''': ''noun'' '''th''' unvoiced, ''verb'' '''th''' voiced: '''mòuth
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  • ...rican English. Speakers of standard American English ''do'' follow subject-verb agreement, and thus if the intention is to teach that language, this rule s ...ch are in a sense distinct languages in their own right, do not do subject-verb agreement the same way. The reasons for their intolerance of non-standard d
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  • '''séparate''' ''adjective'', '''séparâte''' ''verb'' not -per-, cf. '''a''' in '''pãir''', '''e''' in '''désperate '''sërve''' cf. '''sürvèy''' ''noun'', *sërvây; '''survèy''' ''verb
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  • '''thrîve''' regular verb, cf. '''strîve '''tŏrment''' ''noun'' = '''tormént''' ''verb''
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  • ...ra portam <Viminalelm …… > …………t aediculam.'' Cf. Paulus ed. of Fest. ''De verb. sign.'' 163 Müller (157 Lindsay): ''Neniae deae sacellum extra portam Vim
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  • '''cómbat''' ''noun, verb'', '''combát''' ''verb''; verb forms -'''ing''' and -'''ed''' may have one '''t''' or two '''combîne''' ''verb
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  • ...nship between language and the mind, illustrated by a focus on [[irregular verb]]s.
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  • ''verb'' '''rebél
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  • ...rempette'', while ''trompette'' could be from ''tromper'' (as a transitive verb as opposed to ''se tromper'') which does mean to deceive, to cheat or to be
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  • ...on's courage or nerve, as in ''Have you the bottle to do it?''. Used as a verb, it can mean to lose one's courage or nerve, as in ''He bottled it''.
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  • ...icle, fóllicle, îcicle, pébble, míddle, púddle, múddle''' (which is also a verb). ...= '''péddle''' ''sell'', '''líttle''' (adjective or noun), '''befúddle''' (verb), '''óbstacle, bàrnacle''', which many speakers pronounce -ícle.
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  • ...wice & we could simply remove 'evidence' - which still strikes me as not a verb in the normal English CZ is supposed to, er, evince. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Th
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  • ...s the classification of languages on the basis of the basic order of the [[verb]], the [[subject (grammar)|subject]] and the [[object (grammar)|object]] in
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  • ::#Acquiring and processing verb argument structure: Distributional learning in a miniature language.
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  • ...m Significatu''</ref> meaning that the name ''Gaius'' stems from the Latin verb ''gaudere'' ("to rejoice", "to be glad"). This etymology is commonly seen a Another interpretation of ''Caesar'' deriving from the verb ''caedere'' ("to cut") could theoretically have originated in the argument
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  • == References and subject-verb agreement == Comments from an interested amateur. On subject-verb agreement - could you add examples of dialect speech where this rule is bro
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  • :::::Eliminate forms of the verb 'to be'. "Do your parents, or does one of them, study Chinese?" --[[User:A ...he verb 'to be' into the verb 'to do' doesn't solve the problem or subject verb agreement. You are still left with the question of 'Do' or 'Does' instead o
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  • ...e term "[[Occident]]" - derived from the Latin word ''occidens'', from the verb "occido": I fall - was used to describe the [[western world]], i.e. the "l
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  • ...odification of code during execution (e.g.; the infamous [[COBOL]] "ALTER" verb) were stripped of that capability.
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  • ...m Significatu''</ref> meaning that the name ''Gaius'' stems from the Latin verb ''gaudere'' ("to rejoice", "to be glad"). This etymology is commonly seen a An alternative interpretation of ''Caesar'' deriving from the verb ''caedere'' ("to cut"; ''see above'') could theoretically have originated i
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  • ...al languages|inflecting]]) and words are usually ordered '[[Subject Object Verb]]'.
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  • ...oogle maps API, I would urge very great caution in mashing up (is that the verb?) geospatial information if there is the slightest chance anyone might try
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  • ...ssed -'''îve''': '''contrîve, arrîve, deprîve, revîve''', but: '''líve''' (verb), '''lîve''' (adjective), '''alîve''' (adjective).
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  • :::Is the verb "invested" correct? Should it be investigated, or arrested or something? ::::"Invested" seems to be the correct verb -- it means "to install (someone) in office" or "to give a title to (someon
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  • ...in '''toô, foôd, noôn'''). The sound is always yû- initially: '''ûse''' (verb, voiced '''s'''; noun, unvoiced '''s'''), '''ûsual, Ûrals, ûríne'''.
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  • ...e phrase "in the belief that..." but the word "believe" is never used as a verb. Notice especially the first paragraph. The reader is drawn into the subj
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  • In his discussion of self-referential sentences (e.g., "This sentence no verb.") in ''Metamagical Themas'', the cognitive scientist, Douglas Hofstadter,
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  • ...ins -'''n’t''' (the contraction of '''nót''') to form a set of single-word verb contractions: '''coùldn't, dídn't, hádn't, ŏughtn't, shoùldn't, mústn
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  • ...under "troll, n.1," which is a noun related to the fishing-et-alia-related verb "troll," but also says it is "perhaps influenced by troll, n.2" (which is t
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  • ...was first used in its electrical sense by Benjamin Franklin, in 1747, as a verb, and subsequently by him as adjective and noun: ...h (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’): from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load,’ from Lat
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  • ...es the stacking of predicted elements to come. When a noun is perceived, a verb is expected in order to form a complete clause. In a musical cadence for ex
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  • ...1880s a vibrant [[Germany|German]] culture had developed in New York. The verb "to spiel", originally from [[German language|German]] ''spielen'' ("to pla
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  • ...síx and a hàlf''' should not be hyphenated when used predicatively after a verb. Hyphens are required to form adjectives: '''a thrêe-yêar-ôld gïrl''';
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  • can be written, using the "compute" verb, as:
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  • from the verb ''manere'', "to remain". Although a commonly recognized english word meanin
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  • ...temming from ''turannu'' (probably Lydian).</ref> Different from the Greek verb ''ἀρνέομαι'' (''arnéomai''; "to refuse", "to deny"), the first sy
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  • ...ment, and better housing and nutrition. The term is derived from the Greek verb ‘euthenein’ meaning ‘to thrive’.
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  • ...lsh grammar differs from that of English in several ways: for example, the verb is the first major constituent in the sentence by default, and there are ma ...eltic family which includes Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. In Welsh, the verb is the first major constituent in the sentence by default, and there are ma
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  • * {{search link|"see's"|see's|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (See's [company], sees [verb])
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  • ...un to refer to an institution that facilitates such transactions, and as a verb to denote the activity of promoting them.
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  • '''hòuse''' ''noun'' -ss; ''verb'' = '''hòw's''' ''how is'', -z
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  • ...' The term ekkyklema has a double meaning, as a verb and as a noun. As a verb it means revealing an action or activity. As a noun it is used as a label
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  • ...I coined fractal from the Latin adjective fractus. The corresponding Latin verb frangere means 'to break' to create irregular fragments. It is therefore se
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  • : As a verb, the process by which water is forced out of a soil matrix due to loading,
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  • == verb preposition pairs == Is it proper English to have the only verb in a sentence be a contraction? I think yes because I hear too many sentenc
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  • ...preted as 'disreputable' 'immoral' (my grandmother was so ''cheap''). The verb 'to table' a matter, as in a conference, is generally taken to mean 'to def |loan (as a verb)
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  • ...cal methods)]] article got approved with more than one instance of subject-verb disagreement. And with the system we have, the approved version ''still'' h .... I asked myself what's the action here? Since "upkeep" can't be used as a verb I think the phrase "cost of maintaining" helps the long sentence read more
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  • ...entence under the "Building the Steel Industry" heading, which has no main verb. As far as I can see the article is accurate and helpful. I am not sure a
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  • ...only think of it, Cohen suggests substituting a form of the more versatile verb ‘to make’ for ‘to cause’.<ref name=cohen06/>
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  • ...se'' is defined as "the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket". The verb form of the word is ''crosser'', defined as "to play at cricket". It is int
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  • ...'' in '''òne''', which has the same pronunciation as the past tense of the verb '''to wín''': '''òne''' ''1'' = '''wòn''' ''win''.
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  • == After which, comes the verb. Or does it? ==
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  • ...enthesis is clear beacaus of the structure as well as the grammar, for the verb "are" belongs to "people" and differs in time from the verbs "called" and "
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  • ...apostles. The Greek text doesn't use the noun form apostolos but uses the verb form apostello which means to send away and in combination with the rest of
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  • ...'dóctor, tráctor, fáctor, objéctor, léctor, próctor, projéctor''', and the verb '''héctor''', from the name '''Héctor'''.
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  • '''ea''' is used for both sounds: '''bréath''' ''noun'', '''brêathe''' ''verb'', '''lêap''' ''present'', '''léapt''' ''past'', '''rêam''', '''réalm''
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  • ...oved for the reason that he didn't like the verb "to weigh". However, this verb is used in the article at several places, so why not in the informal defini
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  • ...copula|copular verbs]], two [[grammatical gender]]s, and a large number of verb [[grammatical conjugation|conjugations]]. It has also a few grammatical pec It is possible for a verb in the [[infinitive]] to [[Agreement (linguistics)|agree]] with its subject
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  • ...tronics|electronic]] communication systems. The term "email" (as a noun or verb) applies both to the [[Internet]] [[email system]] based on the [[Simple Ma
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  • ...ates/> each of these assertions can be seen as a question by inverting the verb-subject order. He rephrases the second assertion, in particular, as:
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  • 7. Friend as a verb
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  • ...enthesis is clear because of the structure as well as the grammar, for the verb "are" belongs to "people" and differs in time from the verbs "called" and "
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  • :Done. I changed in the text the verb "buttle"or its derivatives to "butler" as the latter is British English (th
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  • The verb '''Manage''' comes from the Italian language|Italian ''maneggiare'' (to han
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  • To (=toô)<ref>Strong form of '''to''', not normal in a verb's infinitive, necessitated by the metre.</ref> pronòunce revêred and sév
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  • ...ts which are necessary to built up a sentence like the noun phrase and the verb phrase but looking at a deeper level the structural elements also contain a
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  • ...h often outdoor entertainment; a large, elaborate party." There's also the verb: "to honor or commemorate with a fete; to pay high honor to"; and, while we ...d the third, strangely enough, I guess, is just plain "divorce", as in the verb. I wonder if any language has a category for divorced transsexuals? '''Divo
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  • ...ide among the 60 or so pan-language universal semantic primitives, but the verb 'to think' does. We cannot define 'thinking' with terms simpler than 'thin
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  • ...problem of common-sense definitions making inroads on these pages (e.g. [[Verb]] - "Verbs define action"); but at the same time we should keep away from t
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  • ## [[Verb|Verb]]
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  • ...here,][http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&view=body&content-type=pdf_1&handle=psu.pmhb/1204813726#page=17
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  • ...ink we should confine ourselves to this. (Don't forget the Brit use of the verb "plate", as of 1968, anyhow. This always seemed a stretch to me, but I'm su ...o when using it as a noun, with the stress a little on the first syl. As a verb I think I say delly-gate, with the stress pretty much divided evenly. Both
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  • The word "''domotics''" (and "''domotica''" when used as a verb) is a contraction of the Latin word for a home (''[[domus]]'') and the word
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  • ...trauterine devices (IUD)" section) Since "be given" sounds like a compound verb, I would change "given" to "with". ...ly pills are different."'' This sentence has a singular subject but plural verb. Other alternatives are: Change "is" to "are"; or begin with ''"The mech
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  • :::::I think that I disagree with removing the verb "promises" from the intro. The indications are, at this time, that the cour
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  • ...her, as I've noted, the word evidence used here is correct in that it is a verb in clinical jargon. Manifest would work.
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  • ...he [[Unified Medical Language System]]® (UMLS®). Informally, some of the "verb" semantic relationships among the above could be:
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  • ...possible weak verbs, like is, are, was, were, and other declensions of the verb 'to be', sentences that grow cumulatively, doing justice to the richness of
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  • ...gine it is still used, as the likes of Greyfriars still exist. The phrasal verb 'tuck in' is no doubt still used too. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] ([[User ...don't think of "blather" as being dialect. (It can be either a noun or a verb, by the way.) Maybe it started ''out'' as regional? I'll do some checking.
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  • ...mmar points out, in 5.108, on the subject of “Collective nouns”, that “the verb may be in the plural after a singular noun, though far less commonly in AmE ::It seems to come from the verb "whing", which seems to me to have the same definition as "whine". Are they
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  • ...sals.'' Oxford England: Oxford University Press ISBN 0198700024</ref> The verb ‘live’ is a semantic prime, the noun ‘life’ is not. <ref name=godwi
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  • ...Interestingly, in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the verb 'to live' preceded usage of the noun 'life' by some 300 years." not because ...rength--the result of taking the easy way out. I prefer to find an active verb, a legitimate one or sometimes a coined one whose meaning the context makes
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  • ...nt garments, a 'comforter', two different kinds of bedding. Same with the verb 'to table' (in the context of meetings). It's used exactly the same way an ...les, however. One word that *does* have opposite meanings, however, is the verb "table". In England, if you say, "The committee tabled the motion," it mea
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  • ...AmE '''êither, wéather''' ''clouds'' = '''whéther''' ''if'', '''mòuth''' ''verb '''s''': '''ûse''' ''verb'', '''êasy, nôse, nâsal, lâser''', BrE '''côsy, pôsy, pôse,
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  • ...ts; move the Northwest Creation stuff to External links; and find a better verb for what Bishop Ussher did. Are we good, or what?? Next thing you know, the
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  • ...or into total chaos. So much info is being introduced, sometimes without a verb, that it totally overwhelms the reader and bears no relationship whatsoever
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  • ...n its electrical sense, was first used by Benjamin Franklin, in 1747, as a verb, and subsequently by him as adjective and noun: ...h (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’): from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load,’ from Lat
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  • ...eferred to as ''recce'' or ''recon'' depending on the role. The associated verb is ''reconnoiter''. Examples of reconnaissance include patrolling by troops
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  • ...conversion by mentioning the circumcision (''περιτέμνω'') and by using the verb ''Ἰουδαΐζω'' ("to live like a Jew"), which in the context of conve
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  • ...'s non-capitalisation policy is wrong, as a currency unit is a noun, not a verb or an adjective. I also believe that a currency unit used in only one count
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  • ...d sentence: First, U.S. Presidents don't inaugurate; it isn't a transitive verb. They are inaugurated, that is installed in office, by others - specificall
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  • ...discreditable) social conduct, as in "office politics" and, when forming a verb, "politicking".
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  • Now you've put your little parenthesis in, I am reminded that the verb to nut can be a colloquial synonym for headbutt, though I'd say the latter
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  • ...didn't know that 'caught' was called a 'fly out'. And we need grammar too, verb or noun or both & how used. And in rounders, I'm pretty sure a catch ends t
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  • ...the reader doesn't definitely need to know who/what does the action of the verb, if the passive moves the reader more smoothly from the previous sentence,
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  • *''Tennis'' comes from the French ''tenez'', the imperative form of the verb ''tenir'', to hold. This was a cry used by the player serving in royal tenn
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  • ...grammatically correct sentence through usage (in spite of using a singular verb with a plural noun and using a noun to describe another noun). English is ...or into total chaos. So much info is being introduced, sometimes without a verb, that it totally overwhelms the reader and bears no relationship whatsoever
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  • ...al disease]], [[Venous stasis ulcer]], [[Ventral scales]], [[Venutius]], [[Verb]], [[Verifiability theory of meaning]], [[Verificationism]], [[Vertigo]], [
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  • ...ck to "purport" in the interests of minimal interference, but left it as a verb; it's purport, not know, that's the key word.
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  • ...f Excommunication in the ''Patrologia Latina'' (vol. 143, 1001-04) and the verb used to describe the act of excommunication or anathematization is "anathem ...translation of the Greek. Notice, by the way, that the Latin uses a finite verb procedit where the Greek uses the participle ekporeuomenon. The distinction
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  • :::::<nowiki>*</nowiki>"need", "want", "should have", etc., insert your verb here.
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  • ::::Ro: That's what I was clumsily attempting to get at...evidence is not a verb except in its specific clincial usage. Since I personally take issue with
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  • ...erhaps a whole essay, rather than what is appropriate for a single noun or verb to carry. When this is done, it becomes more difficult to analyse and crit
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  • ...the descendants of the original human lexicon. Semantic primes include the verb ‘live’ but not the noun ‘life’. The word 'information' comes from the verb 'to inform', originally meaning to put form into something: the seal in-for
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  • As a noun, the pitch is the central playing area. As a verb, to pitch means to bowl the ball through the air and cause it to bounce eit
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  • ...Indo-European language structure has the word type noun for entities, and verb for processes, but relations are somewhat undefined either disguised as nou
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  • Could someone who has access please correct ''setup'' (noun) to ''set up'' (verb) in the site notice at the top of every page? Thanks. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro T
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  • * As far as my knowledge of English goes, (to) sing is a verb, not a noun, therefore it cannot be an activity. ::Yes it's a verb, primarily, but it can be a noun in some situations.
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  • Muhammad revealed the verses of the Qurʾān over a twenty two year period. The verb "revealed" is used carefully here to refer to a process that sometimes invo
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  • ...with "thought" is that it's an awkward word; the purely English-structural verb "thought", with regard to "memory", gave me doubletakes as to whether it re
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  • |<span id="Q"></span>'''queue'''—''noun and verb, British English for 'line' as in 'to stand in line', 'to queue up' ''
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  • ...llowing common usage when you're talking about whether the past tense of a verb is strong or weak, as well as many other points of grammar. A whole host of
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  • ...mary box for this edit I miswrote something about a phrase needing another verb -- please ignore it. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 20:31, 9 April
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  • The word 'information' comes from the verb 'to inform', originally meaning to put form into something: the seal in-for
    194 KB (28,649 words) - 05:43, 6 March 2024
  • ...ing if they are doing their job right, but that is the skeptical used as a verb. Skeptics are something totally different. Scientists are not skeptics, t
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