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The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball. This is an alphabetical list of common English-language idioms based on baseball, excluding the extended metaphor referring to sex, and including illustrative examples for each entry. Particularly American English has been enriched by expressions derived from the game of baseball.
This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which include Modal verbs and Semi-modal verbs. See also auxiliary verbs , light verbs , and catenative verbs . Primary Auxiliary Verbs [ edit ]
Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs . Generally, the only inflected forms of an ...
Glossary of Canadian football terms. Glossary of chess. Glossary of climbing terms. Glossary of contract bridge terms. Glossary of cricket terms. Glossary of cue sports terms. Glossary of curling. Glossary of cycling.
See English modal verbs: need (needs/need) – needed – needed: Weak, regular except in the use of need in place of needs in some contexts, by analogy with can, must, etc. See English modal verbs: ought – (no other forms) Defective; originally a preterite. See English modal verbs: pay – paid – paid overpay – overpaid – overpaid
The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility and obligation). [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑ ( e) s for the ...
caretake from caretaker. cavitate from cavitation [1] chain-smoke from chain-smoker [4] chalant from nonchalant. Chess (river) from Chesham. choate from inchoate. choreograph from choreography [5] chupacabra from Spanish chupacabras (both a plural and a singular in Spanish) claustrophobe from claustrophobia.