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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

verb patterns

Arabic translation:

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Added to glossary by Fuad Yahya
Jun 6, 2005 23:47
21 yrs ago
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English term

verb patterns

The main verb of a clause can be followed by various elements which complete its meaning. These elelments form verb patterns.
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Jun 7, 2005 02:52: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Morphology"

Jan 9, 2006 07:18: Fuad Yahya changed "Field (write-in)" from "Morphology" to "(none)"

Jan 9, 2006 07:18: Fuad Yahya changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Jun 7, 2005:
For example:

want and wish have similar meanings, but they fit different patterns:

I want (not wish) a cup of tea

v+noun phrase

I wish (not want) that I was young

v+that-clause
Non-ProZ.com Jun 7, 2005:
It is English grammer. verb patterns just like adjective patterns.verb patterns refer to everything after the verb not the verb itself, and adjective patterns refer to everything after the adjective not the adjective itself.For example,I want a cup of tea=N(pronoun)+v+N(noun phrase).Here we have verb pattern with one element the Noun after v.
The police asked where we were going=N+v+WH-clause
I hope this help.
Fuad Yahya Jun 7, 2005:
It is never too early to provide relevant information, so please keep it coming. Here is what we need: Is this about Arabic grammar, English grammar, or something else? Provide examples of clauses showing elements forming verb patterns.
Non-ProZ.com Jun 7, 2005:
I think it doesn't mean "forms" of the verb but it refers to something like

1-N+V+N
2-N+V+Verb
3-N+V+adverbial
4-N+V+that-clause

These are what they called verb patterns.

Proposed translations

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تصريفات

This would be like
أكتب، تكتب، تكتبين، تكتبان، تكتبون، تكتبن، يكتب، تكتب، يكتبان، تكتبان، يكتبون، يكتبن
Peer comment(s):

agree ahmadwadan.com
4 hrs
agree Saleh Ayyub
5 hrs
agree Mohamed Gaafar
7 hrs
agree A Nabil Bouitieh
21 hrs
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أشكال الفعل

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+1
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أنماط الفعل

pattern is نمط
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agree Dina Abdo
3 mins
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أساليب الفعل

الاسلوب أو الشكل الذي يتخذه الفعل
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