The world verb is from the Latin verbum, meaning "word"—short, one way suppose, for "action word". Verbs have many sub-categories in all languages and just as nouns are the heads of verb phrases that may include as additional material such as articles and modifiers of various sorts, verbs are the heads of verb phrases that may include noun phrases as objects and other kinds of additional material that fill out the meaning of the verb.
The present text has been written as a manual on the verbs of English grammar. The text, however, is not a mere compendium of the types of verbs, or the rules which define their use; rather, it concentrates on providing readers with a manual on the ways in which verbs are practiced. |
