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what is verb?

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Anonymous What is a verb?

Here are a few definitions of "verb" that can be found on-line.

1 a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these especially when used as an auxiliary or linking verb

2 part of speech used to express action or state of being or the relationship between the subject and object in a sentence

3 A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.

4 In traditional grammar a verb is a member of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc.
For example 'run', 'jump', 'climb' and 'fall' are all verbs.
Verbs are often simply described as 'doing words' or 'actions'.

5 A part of speech denoting action, occurrence, or existence. A verb can consist of one or more words.

6 A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. In many languages, verbs have a present tense, to indicate that an action is being carried out; a past tense, to indicate that an action has been done; and a future tense, to indicate that an action will be done.

7 A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that

typically signal events and actions
constitute, singly or in a phrase, a minimal predicate in a clause
govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause, and

in inflectional languages, may be inflected for
tense
aspect
voice
modality, or

agreement with other constituents in
person
number, or
grammatical gender.

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