Verb vs. Backshift — What's the Difference?

A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.

(grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

(statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

Use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb

To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, as be, run, or conceive.

A phrase or other construction used as a verb.

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

(obsolete) Any word; a vocable.

(figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

A word; a vocable.

A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.

A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence

A content word that denotes an action or a state