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This tag is for questions about verbs. Verbs are words that express an action, occurrence, or a state of being. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a verb. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the verb.
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What do you say when you want to express that the only hope is gone?
That left us with no more light at the end of the
tunnel.
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Infinitive of 'shall', 'should'?
"Shall" and "Should" are modal verbs and don't have infinitive forms.
Notice that "to should" and "to shall" don't exist. … That's because your sentence follows the typical structure of a sentence with modal verbs:
[subject] [modal verb] [infinitive of
main verb] …
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Why do we use 'up' as adverbs for verbs?
"wake up" and "throw up" are phrasal verbs. … Phrasal verbs are
particularly frequent in the English
language. A phrasal verb often has a
meaning which is different from the
original verb. …
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Which is correct: "troubleshooted" or "troubleshot"?
To troubleshoot is the verb in the to-infinitive form. From Merriam-Webster:
Present: I troubleshoot it.
Simple Past: I troubleshot it.
Present perfect: I have troubleshot it.
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{wend, went, went} changed into {go, went, gone}
According to Etymonline.com (entry for go),
The Old English past tense [for go]
was eode, of uncertain origin but
evidently once a different word
(perhaps connected to Goth. iddja); it
was …
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Is "Create Product" a <Verb> + <Subject> or <Verb> + <Object>?
Create Product = <Verb> + <Object>
Update Page = <Verb> + <Object>
Stay Here = <Verb> + <Adverb>
Note: create, update and stay are all conjugated as imperative here. When that is the case, there is …
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“I enjoy frequently writing” or “I frequently enjoy writing” or “I enjoy writing frequently”?
It's not really a question of grammar, but a question of what you mean to communicate. I assume that what you mean is that you enjoy writing and that you frequently write. In your sentence it should b …
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How to combine in a sentence two verb–preposition pairs that have the same object?
Examples:
Data can be imported to and exported from the application.
Data can be imported and exported from the application.
Data can be imported to the application and exported from it.
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"Cancelled" or "Canceled"?
See the number of occurrences of cancelled and canceled from the American Corpus and British Corpus below. This supports what @JoseK wrote as comment to the question:
Corpus of Contemporary American E …
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Abbreviations for nouns / noun phrases used as non-nouns
Spec
As a noun, it appeared as a short form of specification.
It is now also used as a verb. Meaning is to write specifications for.
When you use it is as a verb (e.g. spec your Ferrari), you can't …
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"log in to" or "log into" or "login to"
Log in to host.com
From the Wikipedia page for Login (an old revision):
Spelling confusion
The verbs are two words: log in and
log out, whereas the nouns are login
and logout (often used like adjectives …
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Difference between "I have got" and "I have gotten"
Gotten is probably the most distinctive of all the AmE/BrE grammatical differences, but British people who try to use it often get it wrong.
It is not simply an alternative for have got. Gotte …
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