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  • 31Compound verb — In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi word compound that acts as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector, which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only …

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  • 32Germanic verb — The Germanic language family is one of the language groups that resulted from the breakup of Proto Indo European (PIE). It in turn divided into North, West and East Germanic groups, and ultimately produced a large group of mediaeval and modern… …

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  • 33Modal verb — A modal verb (also modal, modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary) is a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality that is, likelihood, ability, permission, and obligation.[1]:p.33 The use of auxiliary verbs to express modality is… …

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  • 34do verb — 1. general. Do is one of the most productive and complex verbs in English, although a great deal of its use comes naturally to speakers of English as a first language. Essentially, do has two functions: (1) as an ordinary verb (I am doing my… …

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  • 35Ilokano verb — Although other word classes in Ilokano are not as morphologically diverse in forms, verbs are about as morphologically complex as the classic Indo European languages of Latin, Ancient Greek or Sanskrit.Ilokano verbs inflect for the completion of… …

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  • 36Go (verb) — The verb to go is irregular, and apart from be is the only suppletive verb in the English language. Principal partsThe principal parts of the word are go, went, gone . Otherwise the modern English verb conjugates regularly. The irregularity of… …

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  • 37pro|long´ment — pro|long «pruh LNG, LONG», transitive verb. 1. to make longer; extend; stretch: »Good care may prolong a sick person s life. The author cleverly prolonged the suspense in his mystery novel. It was useless to prolong the discussion (Edith Wharton) …

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  • 38pro|long´er — pro|long «pruh LNG, LONG», transitive verb. 1. to make longer; extend; stretch: »Good care may prolong a sick person s life. The author cleverly prolonged the suspense in his mystery novel. It was useless to prolong the discussion (Edith Wharton) …

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  • 39pro|long´a|ble — pro|long «pruh LNG, LONG», transitive verb. 1. to make longer; extend; stretch: »Good care may prolong a sick person s life. The author cleverly prolonged the suspense in his mystery novel. It was useless to prolong the discussion (Edith Wharton) …

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  • 40pro|long — «pruh LNG, LONG», transitive verb. 1. to make longer; extend; stretch: »Good care may prolong a sick person s life. The author cleverly prolonged the suspense in his mystery novel. It was useless to prolong the discussion (Edith Wharton).… …

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