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n. (communication) | 1. verb | the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence. |
| ~ major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar. |
| ~ auxiliary verb | a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with. |
| ~ infinitive | the uninflected form of the verb. |
| ~ verb | a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. |
| ~ participial, participle | a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses. |
| ~ phrasal verb | an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit.; "`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'" |
| ~ transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form | a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical. |
| ~ intransitive, intransitive verb, intransitive verb form | a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object. |
| ~ conjugation | the inflection of verbs. |
n. (communication) | 2. verb | a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. |
| ~ content word, open-class word | a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned. |
| ~ verb | the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence. |
| ~ reflexive verb | a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent.; "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself" |
| ~ copula, copulative, linking verb | an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence. |
| ~ frequentative | a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action. |
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