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Verb System

Found 12 items tagged with #Verb System.

Sound academic: the register, hedging, and cohesion devices that make formal English read smoothly.

Grow vocabulary the smart way, through word families, frequency, and the collocations that words keep.

Reduction transformation 4: the shrunken clause left behind after if, when, and although.

The three positions an adverb can take in a sentence, and how placement shifts emphasis and meaning.

How adverbs and adverbial clauses add when, where, why, and how to the action of a sentence.

can, must, should, may, and might: how the modal force words add possibility, obligation, and permission.

The inversion algorithm behind English questions: how helping verbs move to turn a statement into a question.

One reliable procedure for sorting out every -ing word, whether it is a verb, adjective, noun, or reduced clause.

Read time and voice straight off the verb with a matrix that maps tense and active or passive at a glance.

Make sense of multi-word verbs like turn off, give up, and put up with, and where their pieces can move.

When a second verb takes -ing and when it takes to, and how to choose between gerund and infinitive.

How each verb decides what can follow it, from no object to one, two, or a whole clause.