| 1. | However, finite verbs are much more commonly used in speech.
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| 2. | Position 5 is for non-finite verbs, such as auxiliaries.
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| 3. | Finite verbs are marked for subject person, number, and gender.
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| 4. | Finite verbs take subjective pronominal referentials and are predicative words.
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| 5. | Gapping is widely assumed to obligatorily elide a finite verb.
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| 6. | The subject remains a dependent finite verb when subject-auxiliary inversion occurs:
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| 7. | These trees show the finite verb as the root of all sentence structure.
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| 8. | That type of inversion fails if the finite verb is not an auxiliary:
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| 9. | Here we see an objective complement of a finite verb begin with the quantifier.
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| 10. | The verb distinguishes three forms functioning as finite verbs, known as conjugations.
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