Verb (Linguistics)

A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that

• typically signal events and actions
• constitute, singly or in a phrase, a minimal predicate in a clause
• govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause, and

• in inflectional languages, may be inflected for

  • tense
  • aspect
  • voice
  • modality, or

  • agreement with other constituents in

    • person
    • number, or
    • grammatical gender.