Existing Verbs
Hi Everyone,
I've just come across a group of verbs called - existing verbs.
I've never heard of such a category. When I google them, nothing much comes up.
Am I missing something here?
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Cup cake a group of verbs called - existing verbs What? I've never heard of it. Do they mean "Verbs of Existence"?
- Cup cake a group of verbs called - existing verbs What?
- I've never heard of it.
- Do they mean "Verbs of Existence"?
- I guess that would be verbs that are synonyms for "exist".
- The only one that comes to mind is "be".
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Cup cake a group of verbs called - existing verbs
What? I've never heard of it. Do they mean "Verbs of Existence"? I guess that would be verbs that are synonyms for "exist".
The only one that comes to mind is "be". Some synonyms you can find in a thesaurus also include subsist, live, survive, and coexist, but those aren't very exact
0Cup cakeI've just come across a group of verbs called - existing verbs.
I've never heard of such a category. When I google them, nothing much comes up.
It's just a cockeyed way of referring to existential clauses, those whose subject is the existential pronoun "there" and whose verb is "be".
0That seems to be from a book by an Australian educational linguist, Beverly Derewianka. You can't learn English from an educational linguist.
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