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Lexical Verb

The term lexical verb refers to any verb which is not an auxiliary.

Examples are: try, run, dance, sing, write, speak etc.

  • He must have arrived now.

In the sentence given above, the lexical verb is arrived, while must and have are auxiliaries.

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