"verb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some verbs (for example, know and like) are nor normally used in this way.
- They are "pucked," a new verb used by the American soldiers, taken from the military phrase "persons under control."
- Intransitive verbs use either the agent series or the patient series.
- Often a single verb will use more than one derivational suffix, resulting in very long words.
- Some verbs from the seventh class can use both endings.
- To create the perfective counterpart, verbs use various prefixes without any clear rules.
- Either verb could optionally use the expression "used to" in English.
- Many verbs simply have no past tense, and use the present form.
- Some verbs of this type also use the frequentative or repetitive forms in the neutral voice and others do not.
- A few verbs have special humble forms, used when the speaker is referring to him/herself in polite situations.
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