Grammar

Hi,

Can you provide some context? Where did you find this term?

Clive

Yeah,for instance,"to go out for a meal and go wrong".the verb "go" is considered as a hot verb.

I have replied to your e-mail with my comments.

Please don't duplicate the effort if you already posted the question on the forum.

Hi,

If you know, can you please define 'a hot verb' so that the rest of us can understand?

Thanks, Clive

Hello,

Well,unfortunately answers for the real meaning of "hot verbs" aren't clear for me.Some say that they are verbs which have synonyms;Goodman said that they depend on the context,but I've read that hot verbs mean to have a same verb with different usage.That is,if we take as an exmple the verb " go",we can say "to go home" and " go mad ".The second go

Did you find "hot verbs" in one particular English grammar book or English course book?

It sounds like something the author of a particular book might have made up simply as a "creative" heading.

I've never heard "hot verbs" used as a standard term.

The word "hot" might have been used to suggest that these are verbs of special interest because they are very "popu

After doing a little Google research, I found that "hot verb" is a term used pedagogically to refer to any high frequency verb that is used in a great variety of situations with a great number of meanings depending on context. It is quite possible that only one particular methodology uses the term. It doesn't seem to be very widespread.

get, make, and take are probably th

I feel I should clarify this post. I replied to your e-mail. I said "hot verb" can be anything from the way you described to me; but it has no particular meaning to my understanding. And I further gave your a detailed usage on many contexts on "hot". Google further showed that many threads with "hot verb" showed it's a term used in many foreign English Websites. In the further, if you must quote s

First of all,I'd like to thank you for doing a research and explaining the meaning of "hot verbs".

So I understand that there are some verbs which can be used in different sentences and have different meanings.

As you mentioned earlier,the verb " make" for instance has different meaning according to its context.

Now,when you said "I believe I've heard a completely dif

Many thanks Goodman,to tell you the truth,I read your explanation but it was vague;this is why I wanted a further one and I just wanted to say that your explanation was different from those whom I asked for help,so I was confused.I didn't report all what you said.please accept my apologies.