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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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Is "go" an acceptable pro-verb for "be (at a specific place)"? [closed]
I'm the TA for an ancient philosophy class. A student used the following sentence in his paper.
Accordingly, Anaxagoras believes that the movement we observe is the effect of the cosmos’ guiding …
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Is there a name for configurations such as "I will have had..."?
Consider these two examples,
I will have had eaten by that time.
I will have had been working there for five years.
To me, the first sentence seems to express the proposition that, it is the prese …
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What are the meanings of the common verbs we use to mean change?
These seems to work.
Get
Ascribes a state to a noun.
Become
Denotes gradual change or addition of salient enduring characteristics; the change is not effected by any external sentient entity.
Com …
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What are the meanings of the common verbs we use to mean change? [closed]
Having acknowledged that the meanings of these verbs overlap, how would describe the prototypical use of each of these verbs?
Become
It was becoming dark.
He became a pilot. …
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There seems to be a subtle difference between the infinitive form of the verb 'to be' after ...
There seems to be a subtle difference between the infinitive form of the verb 'to be' after a verb and the inflected form of the same; what is it?
This effect, if there is one, seems most noticeable i …
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What is the difference between the suffixes -ize and -ify?
The dictionary ascribes the same purpose to both these suffixes: to denote 'to make, or become'.
However, for some neologisms, -ize seems much more appropriate than -ify does, and vice-versa.
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