The upper bigrade class is small ( about 56 non-compound verbs ), but sizable enough to make an exhaustive list difficult.
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The vast majority of these are compound verbs consisting of a Tamil origin primary verb and a Sinhala origin light verb.
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We do have a separate articles on compound verb and compound modifier too .---talk 18 : 36, 20 October 2012 ( UTC)
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There was a tendency in the 18th century to use hyphens excessively, that is, to hyphenate all previously established solid compound verbs.
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These constructions involve pure morphological changes ( suffixes and internal sound changes of the verb ), conjugated compound verbs, and invariant auxiliaries.
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Basque has a fairly large number of compound verbs of a type also known as light verb constructions, consisting of two parts.
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The other 6 classes all together contain between 22 and 28 verbs, depending on whether basic compound verbs are included or not.
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Overall, the formula to construct a compound verb becomes [ root verb ] + [ suffix ] + [ aspect marker ]:
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These women, all Southern, taught her that " might could " is a compound verb and that toothpaste soothes mosquito bites, she said.
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The term " compound verb " was first used in publication in Grattan and Gurrey's " Our Living Language " ( 1925 ).
