Performative verbs are verbs carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud. When a judge sentences someone to jail time, for example, the action is...

Slovene verbs Spanish verbs Tigrinya verbs Auxiliary verb Grammar Grammatical aspect Grammatical mood Grammatical tense Grammatical voice Performative utterance...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...

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...

what the speaker is doing even though the utterance is lacking a performative verb. Jacobsen, Martin. "Speech Act Theory". Norquist, Richard (January...

Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological...

some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...

English language, a non-finite verb cannot perform action as the main verb of an independent clause. In English, non-finite verb forms include infinitives...

In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes...

linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...