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Intensive verbs describe the subject complement but extensive verbs describe what the subject does.

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How do you spell meant or ment?

The spelling is "meant" (past tense, past participle of to mean).The spelling -ment is a suffix that can form nouns from verbs (e.g. accomplishment).


What are vivid verbs for a big farm?

producing, generating, harvesting, marketing, seeding Usually vividness is dramatically expressed by adverbs vividly describing the verbs. For example, rapidly harvesting, mechanical seeding, slowly producing, locally marketing, labour-intensive generating etc.


What is a best description for extensive writing?

Extensive writing is writing that is meant to be shared.


What are the semantic classes of English verbs?

Verb semantic classes are then constructed from verbs, modulo exceptions, which undergo a certain number of alternations. From this classification, a set of verb semantic classes is organized. We have, for example, the classes of verbs of putting, which include Put verbs, Funnel Verbs, Verbs of putting in a specified direction, Pour verbs, Coil verbs, etc. Other sets of classes include Verbs of removing, Verbs of Carrying and Sending, Verbs of Throwing, Hold and Keep verbs, Verbs of contact by impact, Image creation verbs, Verbs of creation and transformation, Verbs with predicative complements, Verbs of perception, Verbs of desire, Verbs of communication, Verbs of social interaction, etc. As can be noticed, these classes only partially overlap with the classification adopted in WordNet. This is not surprising since the classification criteria are very different.


What are explicit verbs?

Explicit verbs are verbs which are unambiguous and leave no doubt as to what they mean.