verb phrase

The IELTS Band 9 descriptors give the benefit of the doubt to the high scoring essay, distancing the writer from any errors by removing the active verb phrase "make errors" and instead simply indicating the presence of errors that "occur".

Helping verbs always come before the main verb in the sentence, though they may sometimes be separated by other words, as in the question "Did the baker dust the cookie dough with powdered sugar?" Here the verb phrase did dust is split by the subject the baker.

She bases these conclusions on the following three examples, whose verb phrases are activities, and which, she asserts, form acceptable middles:

The second level shows nominal forms and the third shows the verb phrase or syntagm.

Another major area of difficulty is inability to distinguish between finite and nonfinite verb phrase, which is closely related to the unclear or immature concept of tense as depicted in the following examples.

In addition to an exact match the generalized constituent categories np (noun phrase) and vp (verb phrase) can be used in the category condition, i.e.

I show evidence for a verb phrase in WC Bajau, in one (and possibly two) voices.

Rather than thinking in terms of syntactic functions (like subject or object) or constituents (like "verb phrase"), one must think in terms of relationships between pairs of words.

This would be normal usage if both rtedi 'back/top surface' and the free pronoun nganggu 'you and me' were external to the verb, but in this text, rtedi is incorporated into the verb, and the topicaliser =ga, which encliticises nganggu, topicalises the whole of the verb phrase onto which nganggu is tacked.

Available alternatives include extraposing an argument using a topic-comment construction, incorporating an argument into the verb phrase, and ellipsing one or more contextually retrievable arguments.

* Only proverbs of the form THIRD PERSON SINGULAR SUBJECT + SINGULAR VERB (or VERB PHRASE") + OBJECT were chosen.