When learning English, many students struggle because a phrasal verb often has an idiomatic meaning that isn't obvious from its parts.

To understand conjugation rules, it's useful to identify each reflexive verb in the textbook and note its pronouns.

Many students find it confusing that in German a separable verb splits its prefix from the stem in main clauses.

In many English sentences, the modal verb can change the speaker's attitude toward the action.

In the instructor's lecture, she highlighted the verb phrase to show how its objects and modifiers function.

In descriptive grammar, the term boot verb refers to any verb in Romance languages whose first and second person plural forms are affected differently by a phonological or morphological rule than the other four forms.

In the grammar seminar we labeled abstract verb as a noun category for verbs that refer to concepts rather than concrete actions.

During the grammar workshop, the students were asked to identify different verb phrases in each sentence.

In Slavic grammar, the concrete verb marks a single, definitely directed motion rather than a repeated or multidirectional action.

The textbook defines a control verb as a verb that takes multiple arguments, one of which is an embedded verb, such that one of the control verb's arguments (often its subject) is syntactically an argument of both the main verb and the embedded verb.