Translation for '
verb phrase' from English to French
NOUN | a verb phrase | verb phrases | |
SYNO | predicate | verb phrase |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- An "infinitive phrase" is a verb phrase constructed with the verb in infinitive form.
- Similarly, the adverb "quickly" acts as a modifier in the verb phrase "run quickly".
- In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of a verb and its arguments except the subject of an independent clause or coordinate clause.
- In particular, the comparative frequently occurs with independent mechanisms of syntax such as coordination and forms of ellipsis (gapping, pseudogapping, null complement anaphora, stripping, verb phrase ellipsis).
- This meant that they saw a simple verb phrase as encompassing a more complex syntactic structure.
- Because of this overlap, and the fact that a sequence of prepositional phrase and verb phrase often resembles a serial verb construction, Chinese prepositions (and those of other languages with similar grammatical structures) are often referred to as coverbs.
- The verb phrase "to feed back", in the sense of returning to an earlier position in a mechanical process, was in use in the US by the 1860s, and in 1909, Nobel laureate Karl Ferdinand Braun used the term "feed-back" as a noun to refer to (undesired) coupling between components of an electronic circuit.
- A typical clause consists of a subject and a syntactic predicate, the latter typically a verb phrase composed of a verb with any objects and other modifiers.
- The verb phrase is that of Plains Cree-origin with little reduction (there are no dubitative or preterit verb forms).
- This has direct implications for word order as it is possible for the subject to be included in the verb-phrase in Turkish.
- A clause typically contains a subject (a noun phrase) and a predicate (a verb phrase in the terminology used above; that is, a verb together with its objects and complements).
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