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Grammar
Verbs
Are ONLY verbs always used like these?
to work = She worked all night.
to flow= Tears flowed all over her cheeks.
Is "ed" only added to verbs? What's the rule? Let's say if I come across a word that is a noun. How do I know if it could be used *** in the sentence. Please explain with some examples. Thanks.
to work = She worked all night.
to flow= Tears flowed all over her cheeks.
Is "ed" only added to verbs? What's the rule? Let's say if I come across a word that is a noun. How do I know if it could be used *** in the sentence. Please explain with some examples. Thanks.
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A very interesting question: the --ed ending IS one of the signs to tell us that a word is a verb. ) From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which would be a noun) and "the flow" ( which would also be a noun) We can only decide which way to label a word when we can see what it is "doing" in any particular sentence. In a way you are looking at it back to front, you do not need to learn a list of verbs and nouns, but if you DO want to label a word as a verb or a noun you have to look at it in context.
- A very interesting question: the --ed ending IS one of the signs to tell us that a word is a verb.
- ) From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which would be a noun) and "the flow" ( which would also be a noun) We can only decide which way to label a word when we can see what it is "doing" in any particular sentence.
- In a way you are looking at it back to front, you do not need to learn a list of verbs and nouns, but if you DO want to label a word as a verb or a noun you have to look at it in context.
- You can spot verbs because they often hang around in gangs with pronouns and other verbs: "to walk" can become He walks.
- He does walk.
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A very interesting question: the --ed ending IS one of the signs to tell us that a word is a verb. The tricky thing in English is that some words can belong to more than one "word class" so some verbs can be nouns (and vice versa.)
From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which would be a noun)
and "the flow" ( which would also be a noun)
We can only
From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which would be a noun)
and "the flow" ( which would also be a noun)
We can only
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