By List of verbs

Hi,'Enjoy' goes with gerunds; 'John enjoys collecting stamps'. Below is a partial list of verbs that go with gerunds only."admit, appreciate, avoid, deny, discuss, enjoy, escape, finish, imagine, miss, postpone, practice, quit, recall, resist, risk, suggest, tolerate." - Diana Hacker.Best...

Hello everyone, Would you mind giving me a list of Verbs: Infinitive of V-Ing + the meaning + usage. Some verbs have 2 way, so i really want to know about them. Thank a bunch.

One question about the present perfect : where could I find the list of verbs which can be either used in the simple form or in the continuous form in the same contexts?For example, He has been working here for 10 years and he has worked here for 10 years are both correct while He has been...

I am also looking for a list of verbs which I can use for my class project in Natural Language Processing. We're analyzing the blogs and trying to identify the summary sentences. Having a list of verbs would be useful for identifying the imperative sentences which are often the summary sentences.

I'm having trouble finding a list of verbs that can be both used as a linking verb and an action verb. I can only think of two: SMELL and APPEAR. Example: She smelled the perfume first before buying it./ She smells nice. The boy appeared out of nowhere./ He appears to be sad....

Mister Micawber wrote:'Did you see them go' and 'did you seem them going' are both correct. Some verbs can take the bare infinitive (no 'to') as object, some can take the -ing form as object, some can take either and some can take neither.MM, thank you for the reply. But the the object of the...

In general in a list, the commas indicate the omission of "and", so that if "and" is present there is no sense in putting a comma. It's now common to put a comma also before the "and" and this even appears in text-books. I'm not sure that it's a question of AmE or BrE; logically I'd say it's...

I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.(from Three men in a boat -- to say nothing of the dog! by J.K. Jerome) I've been thinking, without any doubt, that these noun phrases in navy blue above are subject complements.I've just found, though, that my...

Any more? I honestly don't know. The book isn't organized that way. My comments were based on a few of her interspersed remarks, references, and footnotes throughout the book. The book is basically a list of verbs classified into groups on the basis of which transformations they can...

That sounds more reasonable, Hela-- but I have never thought about a list of verbs that may apply. I presume it is the same stative verbs that do not normally appear in any progressive form: see, prefer, hate, contain, cost, etc.