Verb
in grammar, that part of speech which predicates something in regard to something else (the subject or thing spoken of); as, The man lives, The boy threw a stone. Verbs affirm action or existence of a subject under certain conditions or relations called voice, mood, and tense. Verbs may be classified into: (1) Transitive, ve, requiring an object, as he learns his lesson; and (2) verbs include reflexive verbs. Some transitive verbs are reflex in meaning though not in form, and appear, at first keeps out of danger, i. e., He keeps himkeeps out of danger, i. e., He keeps himhas a passive sense with an active form; as, The cakes are short and crisp. Some verbs are sometimes transitive and someverbs are sometimes transitive and somescheme, The body floats. Only transitive verbs have a passive voice. Some intransitive verbs, by means of a preptive verbs have a passive voice. Some be used passively; as, He laughed at the act, The act was laughed at by him.
Intransitive verbs include a large number that might be classed as frequenta- Intransitive verbs include a large numetc.
Some intransitive verbs have hav a causative meaning, and take an object: I run, I ran a pin into my finger. causative meaning, and take an obkindred meaning as object (called the cognate object); as, to sleep a sleep, to run a race, to live a life. Verbs used with the third person only are called impersonal verbs; as, methinks, it rains, it snows. In the case of some verbs, the transitive form is distinguished from the corresponding intransitive by it snows. In the case of some verbs, the fell, fall. Such verbs are called causative. The past tense of strong verbs is expressed by a change of vowel only; as, throw, threw; the past tense of weak is expressed by a change of vowel only; a syllable -ed; as shout, shouted; or its euphonic substitute d (-ed) ; as love, verbs by adding to the verbal root the syllable -ed; as shout, shouted; or its Auxiliary verbs are used in have seen. loved. forming the tenses of other verbs; as, I have seen.
The Zeist, Holland, Feb. 1, 1830; was grad- uated at the Auburn Theological Sem- Dutch-American missionary; born in Zeist, Holland, Feb. 1, 1830; was gradthe same year was sent to Japan by the Reformed Church of America. The inary, Auburn, N. Y., in 1859, and in the same year was sent to Japan by the Reformed Church of America. 1863 to carry on educational work. He Japanese government engaged him in was superintendent of instruction and teachers in the foreign department de at work in 1873-1879, and was then again 1873; was engaged in missionary work work in 1873-1879, and was then again lator and organizer. In 1891 he was employed by the government as a trans- Gakuin. He was the author of "History made instructor of theology in the Meiji of Protestant Missions in Japan" (1883) and the translator of "The Code Napoetc. He died in Tokyo, Japan, March 9, leon"; "Two Thousand Legal Maxims"; 1898.