Example sentences for: verbs

How can you use “verbs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If learners want more than a valency pattern for a particular verb or group of verbs or more than the translation equivalent(s) of a single source-language word, where do they turn?

  • The examples Ponting and Prince Charming from the above list are generally found as verbs only in their - ing form, as that is their original form.

  • The flexible nature of English means that verbs can easily be based on names, whereas in Latinate languages, with their many inflections, such a process is clearly hampered.

  • Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.

  • Through the easy and logical expedient of converting nouns to verbs, our linguistic forebears established a tradition that has continued through every age.


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