The multi-word verb is a special word class in English.

多词动词是英语中一种特殊的词类。

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In the phrase 'you are', the verb 'are' is in the second person and the word 'you' is a second-person pronoun.

在短语you are中，动词are是第二人称形式，而单词you是第二人称代词。

《牛津词典》

In 'She wrote a letter', the verb 'wrote' is transitive and the word 'letter' is the direct object.

在She wrote a letter一句中，动词wrote是及物动词，letter一词是直接宾语。

《牛津词典》

There's no language in the world that has a rule that says the fifth word has to be a verb.

世界上并没有语言规定,说第五个词必须是动词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Incubate is the strange Latin word, and it's a verb -- of course, as we know-- it's a verb typically used with relation not to spirits but to gestating birds, and it literally means "to brood."

incubabat“是个罕见的拉丁词，是个动词--当然，我们知道--这个动词通常用于正在孕育后代的鸟,而不用于神灵，它的字面意思是“孵“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When I had my first job in journalism many, many years ago, I was told that I could never use the word contact as a verb.

NPR: A Down-to-Earth View of the Planet Debate

The root of the word duty is the Latin verb "debere" - "to owe", or "to have to".

BBC: UK

And how, for example, do you treat a German compound verb, or a Hungarian word formation which can incorporate a whole sentence?

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