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"Verb" in a Sentence (24 examples)
In English, the usual sentence structure is Subject - Verb - Object/Complement.
In English the verb precedes the object.
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A sentence normally has a subject and a verb.
Sometimes a verb is derived from a noun and sometimes it is the other way around.
Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.
In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.
This sentence is in the present perfect. 'have' is not a verb, but an auxiliary verb.
'can' is an auxiliary verb, so in question sentences it is brought to the start of the phrase.
In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.
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The word “speak” is an English verb.
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a Verb of the Singular
Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.
The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.
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I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Nouns should never be verbed.
In English, verbing nouns is okay
Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
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