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verbs

noun as in action word

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Their quarrel is with more recently formed verbs like incentivize.

Pinker notes that roughly a fifth of English verbs began life as nouns or adjectives.

They are three of the most basic verbs in the English language.

Anyone who has tried to learn a second language is familiar with the maddening irregular verbs, conjugations, and tenses.

As the first conjugation is a so-called "living" conjugation, it is the termination of many new verbs.

This is the termination of the present participle and verbal adjective derived from verbs in -a.

This ending terminates the past participles of verbs whose infinitive ends in e.

Shorter sentences and an increased ratio of verbs mark the passages in which the movement is more rapid.

If other classes of words be taken out, the ratio of verbs to the other words in the sentence is larger.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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