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A verb able to be immediately followed by the full or bare infinitive, or gerund (i.e. non-finite verbs), as in “I beg to differ”, where beg is catenative.

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erb verb ferb gerb herb serb kerb acerb imberb superb adverb reverb diverb coverb potherb cowherb converb preverb proverb pro verb
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