Sentence examples for main verb from inspiring English sources
noun
The verb in a clause with the highest semantic content
The main verb is was, not contend, say or think.
Newton is: the main verb of the relative clause is was, not contend.
The absence of a main verb is effective, though the redundancy in the third line is not.
It can run line after line without a main verb, or disintegrate into glossolalia ("at taps / art twilit lilac panicle / fathering rafter").
Indeed, the spot in front of the main verb is often the most natural resting place for an adverb, and sometimes it is the only resting place.
The effect, and this especially in relation to the long delay before the main verb arrives in a sentence, is positively infectious.
About main verbs he is less sentimental.
In the leaders, grand subordinate clauses orbited elliptically about their starry main verbs, but in the letters pages no one was in any doubt.
The Blairite sentences, with no main verbs; the cheesy use of his family; the cliches about putting politics aside; the easy resort to caricature about the Tories; the faux-apologies and semi-recognition of the achievements of the 1980s; the straw man of Sir Fred Goodwin, a man ennobled and enriched by Labour – all the standard moves were there.
Qualitative analyses show that parse features help recover pronouns and improve recognition of main verbs.
English native writers used modal auxiliaries, evidential main verbs, adjectives and nouns in RAs more frequently than their Persian native writers' counterparts.
