Sentence examples for verb construction from inspiring English sources

For example, in the fifth month, Tai Dam people are free from farming activities and so take the opportunity to visit their family and friends as illustrated in example 12. Clause 35 is constructed by a serial verb construction: lexical verb 'travel', which is a happening material clause and 'visit', which is a doing material clause.

Tai Dam is like many languages spoken in Southeast Asian region (e.g., Thai, Lao, Burmese, and Vietnamese), in that lexical verbs can be constructed in sequences of two or more verbs, known as a "serial verb construction".

"You have to push yourself and your own merits no matter what your background, [and clothes] maketh the man," he once said, being both commendably honest about his modus operandi as well as employing a far too rare archaic verb construction.

(Adverbial verb construction)   a'.

(Adverbial verb construction)   b.

(Low adverbial verb construction)   b.

The first type involves low adverbial verb constructions.

Chinese has various constructions to juxtapose two predicative constituents, such as compounding, coordinate constructions, serial verb constructions, and discourse constructions.

In addition, light verb constructions, the most common forms of verbs in Persian, constitute a unique feature.

In low adverbial verb constructions, the first verb is always an adverbial verb, such as manner and frequency adverbials, and the second verb is a lexical verb.

Mayrinax low adverbial verb constructions exhibit properties of both Siraya types and Paiwan types (cf. Chang 2010).