Phrase Hound found 64 phrases and 6 compound words that contain verbs. The most common are listed below. Open verbs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 64
- action verbsplural of action verb: A word that expresses action and tells what the subject of a sentence does.
- auxiliary verbsplural of auxiliary verb: A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
- defective verbsplural of defective verb: A verb with an incomplete conjugation; for example, one that can only be conjugated in certain persons and numbers.
- dynamic verbsplural of dynamic verb: a verb which generally expresses an action or activity rather than a state.
- helper verbsplural of helper verb: An auxiliary verb; a verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause.
- helping verbsplural of helping verb: An auxiliary verb; a verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause.
- HTTP verbsplural of HTTP verb: A HTTP method; any of a predefined set of words (such as GET, OPTIONS or POST) that are part of an HTTP request and indicate the desired action to be performed on a given resource.
- irregular verbsplural of irregular verb: A verb that does not follow the normal rules for its conjugation.
- linking verbsplural of linking verb: Copula, copular verb.
- negative verbsplural of negative verb: An auxiliary verb used for negation in certain languages.
- regular verbsplural of regular verb: A verb which conjugates regularly. In English, a verb which uses an -ed suffix to form its past participle.
- strong verbsplural of strong verb: Any of a class of Germanic verbs which use ablaut as opposed to a dental affix to indicate tense.
- weak verbsplural of weak verb: One of a class of verbs which use a dental suffix appended to the stem to indicate the past tense.
- modal verbsplural of modal verb: A verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood.
- transitive verbsplural of transitive verb: A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive …
- reflexive verbsplural of reflexive verb: A verb whose subject and direct object are the same.
- impersonal verbsplural of impersonal verb: A verb used only in the infinitive or in the third person. In the third person, the subject is either implied or a dummy.
- verbs of motionplural of verb of motion: A verb that describes movement on the part of the subject.
- phrasal verbsplural of phrasal verb: A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
- intransitive verbsplural of intransitive verb: An action verb which does not take a direct object.
- prepositional verbsplural of prepositional verb: A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
- stative verbsplural of stative verb: A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection.
- preterite-present verbsplural of preterite-present verb: A type of verb specific to Germanic languages in which the forms of the present tense resemble the forms normally found in the preterite (or past) tense of strong verbs. In modern English these are …
- catenative verbsplural of catenative verb: A verb that may take a full or bare infinitive, or a gerund (i.e. another (non-finite) verb).
- ditransitive verbsplural of ditransitive verb: A verb that requires (in the unmarked form) both a direct object and an indirect object so as to be grammatical.
Compound words 6
- ProverbsA book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
- converbsplural of converb: A non-finite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination.
- nonverbsplural of nonverb: A word that is not a verb.
- perverbsplural of perverb: A statement humorously constructed by merging together two proverbs.
- preverbsplural of preverb: A separable verb prefix or a particle that precedes a verb.
- pseudoverbsplural of pseudoverb: A noun or other part of speech that functions as a verb