Reflective and Defective Verbs

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• Types of defective verbs
• Examples of defective verbs
• Types of reflexive verbs
• Examples of reflexive verbs
• Other types of verbs

The defective verbs they are those that cannot be combined in all times, ways and people. They are considered to have an incomplete conjugation. For example: rain, happen.

The reflexive verbs are those that are constructed with a reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nos) and indicate actions that fall on the subject himself. For example: comb your hair, behave.

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Types of defective verbs

There are different types of defective verbs:

• Those who describe phenomena of nature. They are conjugated in the third person and in the singular since there is no subject to carry out the action. They are single sentences, without a subject, because they have impersonal verbs. For example: Yesterday nevus. / This hailing. 
• Third-person verbs. They refer to events and not to people. They are bimembres sentences, with a subject, but their verbs are only conjugated in the third person. For example: The fact it happened early in the morning. / This happening a particular situation. ("a particular situation" is the subject of the sentence)

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Examples of defective verbs

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Types of reflexive verbs

All reflexive verbs have a pronoun, which can be placed in different positions:

• In front of the verb in any of its forms. For example: My brother I know Juan calls.
• Before the imperative in negative, or after the imperative in positive. For example: No tea lose. / Abouttea! 
• Before a verb phrase or after the infinitive. For example: I know they're changing. / I know they know how to behave well. / I'll waittea always.

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Examples of reflexive verbs

Other types of verbs