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'Verb' refers to the predicate verb. Predicate verbs change their form depending on the subject and the time expressed.
動詞は述語動詞のことです。述語動詞は、主語や表す時によって形を変えます。
He concentrated on his study of prepositions.
彼は前置詞の勉強に専念した。
'needless to say' is often introduced as an idiomatic expression in the infinitive.
needless to sayは不定詞の慣用表現として紹介されることが多いです。
That's my line.
それは私の台詞だよ!
If you look at the lyrics, they don't really mean much.
歌詞を見てみれば、あまり意味が無いことに気付くでしょう。
With verbs there are intransitive verbs that don't take an object, and transitive verbs that do take an object.
動詞には目的語をとらない自動詞と、目的語をとる他動詞があります。
Cue cards are used primarily on television to help the actors remember their lines.
テレビでは俳優が台詞を思い出せるようにキューカードが主に使われる。
There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.
不定詞の形容詞的用法には2種類あり、①限定用法、②叙述用法。②はもちろん主格補語です。
I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?
文法屋に聞きたいんですが、「be+分詞」はV Cなどのように考えることはできないんですか?
I cannot recall the words of the song.
私はその歌の歌詞を思い出すことができない。
Supplementary information includes adverbs and things that function as adverbs.
補足情報には、副詞や副詞のはたらきをするものが入ります。
Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).
名詞を修飾するもの(形容詞、または形容詞相当語句)。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.