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What part of the speech is the nucleus or head of the predicate, indicating “action” or “state of being or existence”?
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The verb
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Climb, cook, look, run, jump, go, appear (= turn up) are all examples etc. of what type of verb?
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Action verb. (He climbed the mountain.)
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Be, look, seem, feel, become, appear (= seem) etc. are examples of what type of verb?
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Verbs of state of being or existence verbs. (You are innocent. They look exhausted.)
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Verbs of existence are also called?
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Linking verbs.
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When you have more than two words made by an auxiliary or helping verb, you have?
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A verb phrase. (He will be going to Spain next week. We have been working all day. She should come earlier.
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Transitive verbs have subjects or objects that?
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Receive the action. They are either active voice or passive voice.
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Transitive active verbs take?
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A direct object after them. [The girl ate her meal. (The girl is the subject-the doer of the action-and her meal is the direct object, i.e., the receiver of the action)]
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In transitive passive verbs who receives the action?
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The subject, with the doer in a prepositional phrase or omitted in the sentence. (The meal was eaten by the girl)
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When the verb has no receiver of the action, i.e., no direct object, it is called?
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An intransitive verb. They can be intransitive complete or intransitive linking.
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Intransitive linking verbs include are be, look, become, appear, seem etc. and are followed by?
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A predicate nominative or predicate adjective. [He became an excellent musician (predicate nominative) The man is tall (Predicate adjective)]
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A predicative nominative completes a linking verb and does what to the subject?
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It renames the subject. It is a complement of the verb.
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When a verb doesn’t fit the other kinds of transitive or intransitive verbs it is known as?
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Intransitive complete verbs. (He left. The phone rang.)
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What is a multiword verb that consists of a verb plus one or two particles?
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A phrasal verb. [A particle may be a preposition or an adverb, or an adverb plus a preposition. They operate as one item. "Look into" (investigate) "Look forward to" anticipate with pleasure)]
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None
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In general, is the meaning of this combination of verb + particle immediately obvious from the separate meanings of its parts?
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No. [Give up (stop , abandon ), is not related at all with the meaning of the verb give in isolation. This is an example of an idiomatic or non-literal phrasal verb.]
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What pattern does an intransitive phrasal verb follow?
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. They cannot be followed by a direct object. (After he moved away, he became more independent. She didn’t turn up.)
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What pattern does a transitive phrasal verb follow?
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They can take objects before or after the particle. However, if the object is a pronoun, it can only come between the verb and the particle. [They cheered up the guests. They cheered the guests up. They cheered her up. BUT not-They cheered up her
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In a transitive inseparable, what happens to the object or object pronoun?
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Both come after the particle. (I ran into Peter. BUT not-I ran Peter.)
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Phrasal prepositional have 3-word verbs and have?
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Two particles: an adverb + a preposition. They are transitive verbs. (I get along with him. She lives up to her mother’s expectation.)
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