WHAT IS A VERB?
A word which:
- occurs as part of the predicate of a sentence
- carries grammatical categories such as tense, aspect person, number
- refers to an action or a state.
verb phrase
- the part of the sentence which contains the main verb and also any objects, complements and adverbials. e.g. Tom gave a watch to his daughter.
- can consist of the word or of more than one word, in which case the phrase consists of a head verb preceded by one or more auxiliary verbs. - no mention of objects, complements, etc.
- the verb phrase is often heavily packed with meaning. We build into it a number of concepts and devices
- action/state
- tense/time
- passive/active voice
- mood indicative, subjunctive(probability - unreal sits), imperative.
- modality
- aspect(progressive,/perfect)
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