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verb

(Encyclopedia) verb, part of speech typically used to indicate an action. English verbs are inflected for person, number, tense and partially for mood; compound verbs formed with auxiliaries (e.g.,…

Verb Tense

  As you write your essay, remember to focus on verbs and keep adjectives to a minimum. Pumping your sentences full of adjectives and adverbs is not the same thing as adding detail or…

Verb Tenses: Introduction

IntroductionVerb TensesIntroductionVerb Tense: Nothing a Little Prozac Wouldn't CureAll Tensed Up: Using Verb Tense Correctly In writing and speaking, you often have to show when something…

Grammar Song: Verbs

A verb is a word that tells what someone or something does. This jammin' grammar song explores many different kinds of verbs.

Grammar Song: Types of Verbs

Learn your verbs with this fun grammar song. Sing about main verbs, helping verbs, linking verbs, verb phrases, regular verbs, irregular verbs, troublesome verbs.

Grammar Song: Using Verbs

Verbs are found in many forms and used in different ways. This grammar video introduces verbs and subject-verb agreement.

voice, in grammar

(Encyclopedia) voice, grammatical category according to which an action is referred to as done by the subject (active, e.g., men shoot bears) or to the subject (passive, e.g., bears are shot by men…

Dravidian languages

(Encyclopedia) Dravidian languagesDravidian languagesdrəvĭdˈēən [key], family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family. The Dravidian languages are spoken…