The phrase "a verb to be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the grammatical category of verbs that indicate existence or a state of being, such as "is," "am," and "are."
Example: "In English, 'is' and 'are' are examples of a verb to be that help form sentences about identity or condition."
Alternatives: "a form of the verb 'to be'" or "a state of being verb".
Her name long ago entered the lexicon as a verb ("to be Kakutanied"), a signifier of the ultimate cultural prestige.
But it wasn't for several years, long after they knew that their lives were bound together, that she wrote in a letter that "I want to tell you just three words – two of them are pronouns and the third is a verb (to be read in all the tenses simultaneously: past, present and future".
Sure, Microsoft wants everyone to use it as a verb to be like Google, but there's obviously a big difference between a company wanting something to happen for branding, and it actually happening.
According to Huang (1995), Mayrinax does not permit a manipulative verb to be realized in its AV form, as in (iv).
The paraphrasic lexical causative allows an Experiencer-subject verb to be used with a Stimulus-subject, formally modeling upon the causative template.
The odd stasis of a photo, or an altered image, is quite like the intransitivity of the verb "to be"—an almost perfect expression of helplessness.
Good deals with the hard case previewed in his title in this way: a noun following the verb to be formally calls for the subjective case (like I, he, she, as in: "Who's there? It is I," not me).
The odd stasis of a photo, or an altered image, is — quite like the intransitivity of the verb "to be" — an almost perfect expression of helplessness.
Papers have been duly filed, causing Pharrell to release a statement in which he deployed the verb "to be" with an impudence bordering on the criminally insane.
We often found, however, that there were many disagreements occurring when clauses are in the form of verb to be and a particular adjective, for example; " A red rash is also visible on the bodies of the affected persons".
We have constructed a mapping table that defines the verb to be used for the 1463 GOMFs used in Reactome.
