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  2. List of English copulae - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of copulae in the English language, i.e. words used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). Because many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are provided. Also, there can be other copulative verbs depending on the context and the meaning of the ...

  3. Volition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Other languages make use of suffixes as a way of marking volition. Tibetan, for example, has two main verb classes: volitional, and valency. [1] There are four types of volitional verbs in Tibetan, two volitional and two non-volitional. [1] These are expressly marked with suffixes. /yin/ is a suffix auxiliary morpheme which expressly indicates ...

  4. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

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    The non-finite verbs been and examined are, except for tense, neutral across such categories and are not inflected otherwise. The subject, proposal, is a dependent of the finite verb has, which is the root (highest word) in the verb catena. The non-finite verbs lack a subject dependent. The second sentence shows the following dependency structure:

  5. Lexical verb - Wikipedia

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    The verb phrase of a sentence is generally headed by a lexical verb. [1] Lexical verbs are categorized into five categories: copular, intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, and ambitransitive. [2] [3] The descriptor lexical is applied to the words of a language's lexicon, often to indicate a content word, as distinct from a function word. [4]

  6. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    For example, verbs such as stare, gaze, view and peer can also be considered hyponyms of the verb look, which is their hypernym. The meaning relation between hyponyms and hypernyms applies to lexical items of the same word class (that is, part of speech) , and holds between senses rather than words.

  7. Word wall - Wikipedia

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    A word wall is a literacy tool composed of an organized collection of vocabulary words that are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom. The word wall is designed to be an interactive tool for students or others to use, and contains an array of words that can be used during writing ...

  8. Frequentative - Wikipedia

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    Also there is a so-called Template rule, which forces another vowel in between the base verb and the affix resulting in a word containing at least three syllables. Verbal prefixes (coverbs) do not count as a syllable. Some verbs' frequentative forms have acquired an independent non-frequentative meaning.

  9. Performative verb - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the sentences below, 1 and 2 differ only in the verb and both are acceptable. In the corresponding pair, 3 and 4, the use of "hereby" before the non-performative verb see is not coherent because the action of seeing is not performed simply by its utterance. I confer this award; I see this award; I hereby confer this award