Full verb

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A verb with its own meaning: a verb that is not an auxiliary verb.

    "In "They have it", have is a full verb, but in "They have done it", it's an auxiliary verb."

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"In "They have it", have is a full verb, but in "They have done it", it's an auxiliary verb."