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WORD GRAMMAR
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Verb
- Conjugation in indicative
- Person and number
- Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Verb categories
- Valency
- Semantic categories of verbs
- Finite / non-finite verb forms
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Article
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Particle
- Interjection
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Verb
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SENTENCE GRAMMAR
- Clause types
- Complex clauses
- Constituents of a sentence
- Sentence structure
- Word order in a sentence
- Negation
Verb categories
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Verbs are divided in various categories, according to their ability to form the predicate of a sentence.
verb categories | formation of the predicate | |
full verbs | can form, in their finite form, the sentence predicate on their own | on their own |
auxiliary verbs | form the complex tenses and the passive voice forms of full verbs by combining their finite forms with a non-finite form of the respective full verb (infinitive, past participle). | + infinitive / past participle (Partizip II) |
modal verbs | form the predicate with the infinitive of a full verb, thus changing the full verb's content | + infinitive |
copular (linking) verbs | form the predicate of a sentence together with a predicative expression, which is, in principle, a noun in the nominative case or a non- inflected adjective. | + noun / adjective |
empty (light) verbs | form the predicate with a phrase that contains a noun. This phrase is usually an accusative object or a prepositional object. | + noun |