Sentence examples for first verb from inspiring English sources

In other languages the first verb carries the primary markers for tense/aspect/polarity, while the subsequent verbs are marked to show they are following the first verb.

In some languages the first verb is marked for tense/aspect/polarity and succeeding verbs are unmarked.

The first verb should be "are," since the subject is the compound "the $300 billion … and the $50 billion".

And "dot" sounds like the first verb that came into MacLeod's head; it belongs to tourist brochures.

Your daughter, glazed-eyed and body-snatched, chants "Read, Mommy, read," like she's off in Neverland already, even before the first verb.

Card playing is a strong possibility for the root because of the first verb, put, which is also used in put your money where your mouth is.

He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development.

The richness of the database and the analytical tools used make First Verbs a particularly useful and important book for developmental psychologists, linguists, language development researchers and speech pathologists.

This structural asymmetry can also be evidenced by the fact that only first verbs can attract pronominal clitics, but not second verbs.

Each type of construction respects the AV-only restriction, with the first verbs bearing major morphosyntactic marking, while the second verbs are defective in morphosyntactic marking and occur as bare AV forms.

The second predicates headed by cu' NF convey resultative events, while the first verbs convey causative events.