请问一下各位，什么叫做working verb？

einpause

网上搜索半天，没有看到这个概念的解释。

silent7706

For instance,

He is a gentleman.

"is" is the working verb of this sentence. Without "is", we will have  a sentence without a working verb.

einpause

For instance,

He is a gentleman.

"is" is the working verb of this sentence. Without "is", we will have  a sentence without a working verb.

-- by 会员 silent7706 (2010/8/5 23:50:33)

谢谢，是不是可以认识为，起了动词作用的动词

silent7706

For instance,

He is a gentleman.

"is" is the working verb of this sentence. Without "is", we will have  a sentence without a working verb.

-- by 会员 silent7706 (2010/8/5 23:50:33)

谢谢，是不是可以认识为，起了动词作用的动词

-- by 会员 einpause (2010/8/6 15:32:28)

如果我没有记错的话应该是。

yingPenguin

没错，以下的例子解释的比较清楚：
But there are words that look like verbs that are not functioning as verbs in a sentence. The way to tell if these words are "working verbs" is to look for a subject (a noun or pronoun) that tells you who or what? For example in the sentence, "The bone was eaten by the dog," you know that was eaten is a working verb because it has a subject that answers the question "what was eaten?" But in the sentence "Jack expects to spend his winter vacation in Colorado skiing the slopes," the word skiing is not a working verb because it doesn't have its own subject.

nihongmeng

working就是有效的意思啊。。。working verb就是有效的动词啊。。。

pinkn

比如 he is beaten. is在这里是working verb， beat 本来虽然是动词，但是在这个结构中不是working verb.

应该貌似好像是这样的吧。

赤尾屿

"working verb，a verb that can run a sentence by itself."
manhattan这么解释，让我觉得最明白，不用找出确切那些词属于working verb，哪些不属于。放到句子里面去看。
The electron named in 1894.错误
The electron was named in 1894.正确。
因为electron只能被命名，所以named 这单个词不能在第一句里run the sentence.所以这个named不是working verb。

tiramisuecho

Manhattan里的意思是指谓语动词吧。。

loveleft504

FYI，Manhattan后面术语表中的解释——

Working verb：A verb that could be the main verb of a grammatical sentence.  A working verb shows tense, mood and voice, as well as number and person in some circumstances.  The use of this term helps to distinguish working verbs from verbals（非谓语动词）, which cannot by themselves be the main verb of a sentence.

正在看Manhattan，后面有解释。