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2. List of English copulae - Wikipedia

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   Because many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are provided. Also, there can be other copulative verbs depending on the context and the meaning of the specific verb used. Therefore, this list is not an exhaustive one. act "Tom acted suspicious." appear "Tom appears satisfied, but really is not." be "Tom is a coward."

3. Linking verb - Wikipedia

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   In traditional grammar and guide books, a linking verb is a verb that describes the subject by connecting it to a predicate adjective or predicate noun ...

4. Verb - Wikipedia

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   Copular verbs (a.k.a. linking verbs) include be, seem, become, appear, look, and remain. For example: "Her daughter was a writing tutor." "The singers were very nervous." "His mother looked worried." "Josh remained a reliable friend." These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. [5]

5. Link grammar - Wikipedia

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   Link grammar connects the words in a sentence with links, similar in form to a catena.Unlike the catena or a traditional dependency grammar, the marking of the head-dependent relationship is optional for most languages, becoming mandatory only in free-word-order languages (such as Turkish, [3] [better source needed] Finnish, Hungarian).

6. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   suffixes attached to the verb, and not separate words [20] Such languages often lack conjunctions as a part of speech, because: the form of the verb used is formally nominalised and cannot occur in an independent clause; the clause-final conjunction or suffix attached to the verb is a marker of case and is also used in nouns to indicate certain ...

7. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

8. Subject–verb inversion in English - Wikipedia

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   Directive inversion is closely related to locative inversion insofar as the pre-verb expression denotes a location, the only difference being that the verb is now a verb of movement. Typical verbs that allow directive inversion in English are come, go, run, etc. [2] a. Two students came into the room. b. Into the room came two students.

9. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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   An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a participle, which respectively provide the main semantic content of the clause. [1]