In her paper, the linguist defined vector verb as a noun denoting a light verb that carries little independent semantic content.

The term action verb describes a word that expresses what the subject of a sentence does.

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

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 linguistics seminar, I presented several abstract verbs to illustrate how meaning shifts with context.

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.

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

Writers often prefer concrete verbs to create vivid imagery.

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