verbs

• verbs of perception

  The above explanation holds for all the verbs of perception.

• phrasal verbs

  OALD contains more than 57,000 words and phrases, including 12,700 phrasal verbs and idioms.

• perceptual verbs

  Bolinger does not mention it, but the opposite is also true: exclusively perceptual verbs refuse the to infinitive.

• both verbs

  The impact of both verbs together is overwhelming.

• two verbs

  The last two verbs to be looked at in the field of causality are thank and bid.

• intransitive verbs

  Instead, Lok's language is full of clauses with inanimate subjects or intransitive verbs or both: "The bushes twitched again" , "Lok steadied by the tree" , "A stick arose upright" .

• verbs and adjectives

  In addition to these nouns there are verbs, adverbs and adjectives in similar numbers.

• different verbs

  However, this reduction of different verbs to the same primitive does have its disadvantages, as information may be lost (as in the case of’joke ’,’say ’ and’preach ’all being reduced to MTRANS ).

• verbs followed

  This, to our mind, does not explain anything, besides not being distinctive of verbs followed by bare infinitives (cf.

• transitive verbs

  Instead, Lok's language is full of clauses with inanimate subjects or intransitive verbs or both: "The bushes twitched again" , "Lok steadied by the tree" , "A stick arose upright" .

• verbs ending

  The rule for verbs ending in the sound -er, such as offer, prefer, occur , is to double the r for the -ed and -ing endings if the accent is on the -er syllable, but not otherwise.

• verbs have

  Passively, since active verbs have an unpleasant way of betraying the actor.

• nouns and verbs

  Qualifying adjectives and adverbs should be avoided and the use of unadorned nouns and verbs relied on.

• psychological verbs

  (c)(25) We include under "psychological verbs" verbs of feeling (liked), thought (supposed), and perception (hear).

• verbs like

  They extend (and over-extend) the words they can produce; they rely on deictic terms like that ; and they use general purpose verbs like do and go .

• infinitive after verbs

  The sort of problem we are addressing here — finding a semantic explanation for the distribution of the infinitive after verbs of perception in the passive — is treated in a diametrically opposite way by formal-grammar truth-semantics accounts such as that of Higgenbotham 1983.