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action verb
noun
- a verb, as run, think, or soothe, that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature can do, as in Close the door! or The storm is flooding many houses along the coast, rather than expressing a state of being. Compare copula ( def 2 ), stative.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of action verb1
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Example Sentences
Despite the action verb in the book title, this brother and sister are fascinatingly, and often frustratingly, inert.
And Christiana Figueres, the former U.N. climate secretary who helped forge the 2015 Paris agreement and then started a non-profit called Climate Optimism, sees hope not as a noun but an action verb.
鈥淲arioWare鈥 亚洲网紅露点 are Nintendo at its most wacky: 10 seconds, one action verb as a directive and then go!
鈥淚 thought about that word, 鈥榖e,鈥 and how 鈥榖e鈥 is not only a linking verb, it鈥檚 an action verb,鈥 he said.
Can we please stop using the word 鈥渞ips鈥 as an action verb to describe President Trump鈥檚 infantile tweets?
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