English Explanatory Dictionary

control verb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A verb which takes multiple arguments, one of which is another verb, such that one of the control verb's arguments (possibly its subject) is syntactically both an argument of the control verb and an argument of the other verb.

Word forms

control verb control verbs

Related words

object-control subject-control
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