verb

[vɜrb]

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.