| 释义 |
verbid Gram.|ˈvɜːbɪd|
[f. verb + -id1.]
A word, as an infinitive, gerund or participle, which has some verbal characteristics but lacks the power of forming sentences. Also attrib. and in Comb.
1914O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. 7 We shall..restrict the name of verb to those forms that have the eminently verbal power of forming sentences, and..apply the name of verbid to participles and infinitives. 1940Bryant & Aiken Psychol. of Eng. 23 Such a unit [sc. John having called the dog] is called a verbid clause, because having called is not a full verb. 1966R. L. Allen Verb System Present-Day Amer. Eng. 136 Of the 4800 verb and verbid-clusters included in the corpus, 1191..are clusters with some form of BE as the verb. |