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
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a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
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Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases, Agreement and reference.relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases.the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Clauses and phrases.of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; "adverbial syntax"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases.(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases.a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases.(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases.a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Clauses and phrases.a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
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Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitiv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.a noun formed from a verb (such as the ‘-ing’ form of an English verb when used as a noun)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verb, construction, take, object.
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