Questions tagged [verbs]
This tag is for questions about verbs. Verbs are words that express an action, occurrence, or a state of being. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a verb. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the verb.
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Deck as verb and the accompanying preposition
As per Cambridge dictionary and others, the word 'deck' in its verb form means to decorate or add something to something to make an effect: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/deck
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Is "The Shining" a title with a gerund, or a regular -ing noun? [duplicate]
Does using "the" or "a" in front of a gerund alter it somehow? "A painting," for example, is not a gerund, and if a book were titled "The Painting" it would not ...
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What do you call the difference between when a verb expresses an actual state vs a potential state? [closed]
Sometimes, the exact same verb can express two different but closely related meanings:
The subject [S] is actually performing an action [V]
The subject [S] is capable of performing an action [V]
To ...
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Ultrasound and similar as a verb
There are various forms of medical imaging: X-ray, ultrasound, CT/CAT, MRI, PET.
X-ray can be used as a verb ("they X-rayed my broken leg"), but can any of the others? They all sound strange ...
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Meaning of joined in marriage [closed]
“I joined in marriage Ben and Nicole”… when the officiant write it in the marriage certificate can it have a double meanings?
The first meaning is- I united in marriage Ben and Nicole- meaning I ...
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Is "parse out" actually a phrasal verb, and in what context do you use "parse"
I came across this text example about phrasal verbs:
There's no better investment than the most comfortable sneakers Maybe your last beloved pair is kinda falling apart and desperately
needs to be ...
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Plural or singular? There is or there are? [duplicate]
In some book I have encountered the following phrase:
There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.
and a question has arised: whether there should be used the verb is or the ...
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Can we use 3rd person singular for "Come Find"?
I have the following question which Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT couldn't answer properly.
I understand that in American English, people drop and in "Come and Find," and say "Come find.&...
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abǽde in context: which verb and inflectional form?
I'd like to know what verb and which inflectional form abǽde is in the sentence below. The passage is from one of Ælfric's homilies. A translation is available online, but it doesn't look literal ...
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Person who says they want to help, but doesn't want to do it when asked [duplicate]
I'm looking for a word that means a person who says that they're here to help, but when the help is asked for they don't really want to do it
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example sentences of the verbs, "deter, enrich, and help", which have content clauses as their subject [closed]
I am interested in the question of what kind of verbs allows a content clause as a subject. I found a list of such verbs in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (P.957).
amuse bother deter ...
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Confused about the rules for verb + infinitive
I'm doing a worksheet in which rules for verbs + infinitive or gerund have to be completed. And there is one rule I'm really not clear about. It says:
"An infinitive is often used to answer the ...
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“He feels himself expanding”?
(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part II Cambridge Choir, chapter 20)
William, the chorister, is enjoying himself
The putting on of his cassock and the graceful. weighty swing of the ...
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Usage of “Effects” [duplicate]
I came across this sentence:
“This new patch commit can be cherry-picked directly to the main branch to fix the bug before it effects more users.”
I find the usage of “effects” here to be weird. Is ...
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Usage of 'convalesce' as a transitive verb
Would something akin to the following parse?
"Over time, the regimen successfully convalesced the patient."
None of the examples given in definitions of the word I can find using ...
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