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Word Class |
The part of speech that a word belongs to. |
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Lexical Verb |
Lexical verbs contain some sort of meaning and can stand alone. |
I love chocolate ice cream. The verb love is lexical: it has meaning and does not need another verb to help it in any way. |
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Auxiliary Verb |
Acts as a help or support to lexical verbs. Help make tenses that contain more than one verb. Can also be used to create negative and interrogative (or question) forms. |
He's watching TV at the moment. 'Is' helps the verb 'watch' to make the present progressive tense and has no independent meaning of its own. |
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Why are verbs and important part of grammar? |
Verbs help us convey a lot of information about states, actions, time and attitude and involve many subtleties of meaning. |
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