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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter B. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
In some languages, like Welsh, verbs have special inflections to be used in negative clauses. (In some language families, this may lead to reference to a negative mood.) An example is Japanese, which conjugates verbs in the negative after adding the suffix -nai (indicating negation), e.g. taberu ("eat") and tabenai ("do not eat").
Before verb stems beginning with a b the mo-+ b-combination contracts to mm-([m̩m]) due to the middle vowel being elided. If the following verb stem is of more than one syllable, they cause the following syllable (the stem's first syllable) to have a high tone and appear with a low tone.
Some verbs ending in a -tsa, which is an alveolarization of an original -la, revert the alveolarization, ending in -disa-sebetsa work ⇒ -sebedisa use; Monosyllabic e-stems suffix -esa and i-stems suffix -isa-nwa drink ⇒ -nwesa cause to drink; Verbs ending in -nya and disyllabic verbs ending in -na contract and cause nasalization resulting ...
Anadiplosis – repeating the last word of one clause or phrase to begin the next. Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order.
There have been no top boy names that start with "B" in the last 100 years, but Robert — often shortened to “Bob” — has been in the top five baby names for boys 50 of the last 100 years ...
A verb together with its dependents, excluding its subject, may be identified as a verb phrase (although this concept is not acknowledged in all theories of grammar [23]). A verb phrase headed by a finite verb may also be called a predicate. The dependents may be objects, complements, and modifiers (adverbs or adverbial phrases).
There are certain sentence patterns in English in which subject–verb inversion takes place where the verb is not restricted to an auxiliary verb. Here the subject may invert with certain main verbs, e.g. After the pleasure comes the pain, or with a chain of verbs, e.g. In the box will be a bottle.