"specific" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This includes expressing actions in specific verbs to make sentences clear.
- Sometimes children use a highly specific verb instead of a general purpose verb.
- A definite noun, in contrast, requires the use of a specific verb when it is the object of a verb.
- The subject of a specific verb requires a specific suffix to indicate its syntactic role:
- The subject of a specific verb takes the following suffixes, depending on its grammatical number:
- The object of a specific verb needs no particular suffix at all.
- Some verbs are automatically both specific and non-specific verbs, depending only on which suffixes they receive.
- In Inuktitut, this situation is expressed by using a specific verb but by affixing a non-specific ending to it.
- There is no specific verb with this meaning in these languages.
- There is one exception for sound, for example: there's a specific verb for calling a pig.
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