verb

Definition:
1. A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
2. A content word that denotes an action or a state.

Use 'verb' in a sentence:

• 1. The verb is in the subjunctive.
• 2. The verb matter in English can mean 'be important'.
• 3. In the sentence 'They live in the country', the plural form of the verb 'live' is in agreement with the plural subject 'they'.
• 4. In 'Go away!' the verb is in the imperative.
• 5. The verbs were subdivided into transitive and intransitive categories.
• 6. She tested us on irregular verbs.
• 7. I have difficulty learning French irregular verbs; I just can't seem to get them into my head.
• 8. Modal verbs generally take the bare infinitive.
• 9. may be just means might be, a verb phrase.
• 10. The verb should be in the singular.
• 11. The verb agrees with its subject in number am person.
• 12. 'I have eaten' is the present perfect tense of the verb 'to eat', 'I had eaten' is the past perfect and 'I will have eaten' is the future perfect.
• 13. In "I study english" the verb is active.
• 14. I want us all to change the verb.
• 15. In 'She became angry', the verb 'became' is a linking verb.
• 16. These are the finite forms of a verb.
• 17. The verb should be in the plural.
• 18. 'I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.
• 19. In 'walk slowly', the adverb 'slowly' modifies the verb 'walk'.
• 20. The verb 'rely' takes the preposition 'on'.
• 21. The word is compounded of a preposition and a verb.
• 22. Many verbs and many words of other kinds are implicitly causal.
• 23. There must exist agreement of a verb and a subject in person and number.
• 24. I want you to think of service as a verb.
• 25. This dictionary does not cover all the English verbs.
• 26. See page 20 ( verb pattern 13).
• 27. This is a good drill for learning how to use English verbs.
• 28. In 'He cut himself', 'cut' is a reflexive verb and 'himself' is a reflexive pronoun.
• 29. The word "do" is an auxiliary verb.
• 30. The word "accept" is a verb.
• 31. In 'Ben likes school', the verb 'like' is in the indicative.
• 32. The verb 'grow' is ergative because you can say 'She grew flowers in her garden' or 'Flowers grew in her garden'.
• 33. The phrasal verb 'tear up' is separable because you can say 'She tore the letter up' or 'She tore up the letter'.
• 34. You should use the transitive verb in the sentence.
• 35. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.
• 36. The subject of a sentence and its verb must agree in number.
• 37. 'They are' is the third person plural of the verb 'to be'.
• 38. It's an indicative verb.
• 39. How does this verb conjugate?
• 40. In 'Tom likes jazz', the singular verb 'likes' agrees with the subject 'Tom'.
• 41. Well, architecture is a verb as well.
• 42. In 'while I was washing my hair', the verb is in the imperfect.
• 43. See page 20 (verb pattern 13).
• 44. a noun in the form of the present participle of a verb, for example travelling in the sentence I preferred travelling alone.
• 45. However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun.
• 46. In 'She wrote a letter', the verb 'wrote' is transitive and the word 'letter' is the direct object.
• 47. The verb is being used transitively.
• 48. The verb is being used intransitively.
• 49. The verb 'die' as in 'He died suddenly', is intransitive.
• 50. In the phrase 'you are', the verb 'are' is in the second person and the word 'you' is a second-person pronoun.
• 51. In 'He was driving the car', the verb is active.
• 52. There are thousands of verbs in English and most are regular.