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Grammarian-bot Posted 20 years ago
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Catenative verbs

Please can someone define catenative verbs and its types and/or extentions if any.

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Grammarian-bot Please can someone define catenative verbs and its types and/or extentions if any. htm#catenatives Verbs that take other verb forms as objects are called catenatives (from a word that means to link, as in a chain). " Catenatives are also characterized by their tendency to describe mental processes and resolutions.

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  • Grammarian-bot Please can someone define catenative verbs and its types and/or extentions if any.
  • htm#catenatives Verbs that take other verb forms as objects are called catenatives (from a word that means to link, as in a chain).
  • " Catenatives are also characterized by their tendency to describe mental processes and resolutions.
  • ) I want to try to remember to use that website.
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Grammarian-bot Please can someone define catenative verbs and its types and/or extentions if any.

GB
This may be too basic to answer your question, but

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http://www.geocities.com/endipatterson/Catenative.html
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Not necessarily catenatives take other verbs as objects. The definition relates to the idea of a lexical chain of different verbs that sometimes migle their meanings into modalizing the last verb, or content verb.
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There's a good explanation for it in wikipedia.

// Dave
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