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− | + | traditionally known as doing or action words. The formal definition is an element (or part of a sentence) that can show contrast in tense, aspect, voice, mood, person, and number. It is also the minimal element of the predicate of a sentence (Ex. He ran. Ran= both the verb and predicate). The verb also controls what type of elements a predicate has such as objects, compliments, and adverbs. | |
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traditionally known as doing or action words. The formal definition is an element (or part of a sentence) that can show contrast in tense, aspect, voice, mood, person, and number. It is also the minimal element of the predicate of a sentence (Ex. He ran. Ran= both the verb and predicate). The verb also controls what type of elements a predicate has such as objects, compliments, and adverbs.
References
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.