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Meaning of verb in English
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(Definition of verb from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of verb
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The first is that the noun in this construction already has some of the semantics of an ordinary verb.
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By contrast, ordinary adjectives without passive morphology were unlikely to be reanalyzed as verbs or to give rise to a verbal interpretation.
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Another useful verb, need, turns out to be both ordinary and modal.
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Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
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Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
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Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
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The verb-and-particle ttwui-e "run" is revised and replaced with the verb-and-particle tul-e "enter".
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This pattern was maintained at 4 years except that verb-alone responses were replaced with more pronoun-verb responses.
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Regular past tense verbs show a distribution that is even more fascinating.
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A telling example-of importance for the study reported below-involves (thematic) verb raising.
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An important difference, then, between agreement verbs and plain verbs is in the role of the body.
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In these instances, then, the entailments of sentences with spatial to phrases are determined by the meaning of their verbs.
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The several chapters on verb meanings are not collected together, which means that related themes are not brought together.
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The drop in recall for verbs and, even more, for adjectives is mostly due to the lack of structural information.
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This suggests that production data may substantially underestimate early verb learning.
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（文法）動詞…
fiil…
verbe [masculine], verbe…
verb…
فِعْل…
sloveso…
verbum, udsagnsord…
kata kerja, verba…
คำกริยา…
động từ…
czasownik…
kata kerja…
das Verb…
verb [neuter], verb…
동사…
verbo…
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