Linking verbと言えば、すぐにこの五つ思い出せるように。 is, am, are, was, were Action verbはlook, have, eat, playみたいなやつらだったよね。 で、今日の話は、このAction verbというやつにはさらに二種類あるという話。 動作を表す動詞であるAction verbには二種類あるんだ！

Intransitive verbとTransitiveの前にInがついているので、「Transitiveじゃない」動詞、受け渡さない動詞、目的語とかに動詞の力が及ばない動詞、つまり目的語を取らない動詞、主語と自分(動詞)だけで文を完結させることができる動詞。 の形で文を文法上完結さ ...

The past week witnessed the frequent occurrence of the words ‘resign’ and its derivative ‘resignation’ in the print, electronic and social media, thanks to LK Advani who stunned the BJP with his ...

We often see the frequent occurrence of the word resign and its derivative in the print, electronic and social media thanks to politicians who hand in resignation letters. Look at these news headlines ...

Language learners the world over face the task of mapping unfamiliar words to meaning. Verbs are particularly difficult, given children's ontological expectation that new words might label objects ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

"Please open," said the dentist, and these words gave me something to think about during the uncomfortable moments of oral inspection that followed. Because what she actually said was 開いてください (Aite ...