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VERB - Coggle Diagram
VERB
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Combinability with: nouns, adverbs, adjectives
Syntactic functions: notional verbs, functional verbs, predicates
Auxiliary, copular, aspectual, modal verbs make part of a predicate
Morphological structure: simple, derived, compound
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Notional verbs
full lexical meaning, form a simple verbal predicate
Semi-notional: aspectual verbs + verbs with a modal shade of meaning, make part of a compound verbal aspective or modal predicate
Functional verbs
auxiliary, modal, copular verbs: weaken / lose their lexical meaning, retain the grammatical meanings, form part of predicate
There are also verb-substitutes and intensifiers
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Grammatical categories
Person and Number: singular and plural; 1st, 2nd, 3rd person.
Tense: no future tense in English, present tense CONV, ACAD
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Mood: expressed by intonation, lexically and grammatically (fact-mood (indicative), will-mood (imperative), thought-mood (conjunctive (conditional / subjunctive)))
Conjunctive mood: conditional (non-perfect, perfect) / subjunctive (non-perfect, perfect)
Voice: active, passive, voice auxiliaries
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Meaning of the passive voice: continuous or habitual action (real passive), the state resulting from action (pseudo passive)
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