Verb (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
noun
  1. (in traditional grammar) any of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc. In English, such words as run, make, do, and the like are verbs
  2. (in modern descriptive linguistic analysis)
    • a word or group of words that functions as the predicate of a sentence or introduces the predicate
    • (as modifier)
Verb (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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