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Keywords: Predicate, Sentence, Seguimos, Cantando, Syntactic

Related Terms: Adjective, Adverb, Adverbial, Apposition, Appositive, Auxiliary, Case, Clause, Complement, Conjugation, Copula, Declension, -En, Gerund, Infinitive, Nominal, Participle, Particle, Postposition, Preposition, Pronoun, Split Infinitive, Substantive, Verbal, Determiner, Reflexive Pronoun, Relative Clause, Relative Pronoun, Adjective Phrase, Nominalization, Subject Complement, Finite Verb, Past Participle, Noun Phrase, Prepositional Phrase, Verb Phrase, Participial Phrase, Parts Of Speech, Gerund Phrase, Noun Clause, Part Of Speech, Phrasal Verb, Predicate Noun, Conjunctive Adverb, Personal Pronoun, Present Participle, Auxiliary Verb, Irregular Verb, Prepositional Phrase, Proper Adjective

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one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

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a group of related words that consists of a main verb and one or more helping verbs

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a group of words which can replace a verb in a sentence

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a main verb plus any auxiliaries

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A group of words which have the same function as a verb, eg seguimos cantando.

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VP is a syntactic structure composed of the predicative elements of a sentence and functions in providing information about the subject of the sentence.

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