"English catenative verbs"

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"Catenative verb: An English verb able to be immediately followed by the full or bare infinitive, or gerund, as in “I beg to differ”, where beg is catenative."
More: catenative verb - Wiktionary Catenative verbs are verbs which can be followed directly by another verb — variously in the to-infinitive, bare infinitive or present participle/gerund forms.
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[SIZE=-1]Verbs Followed by an Object Before the Second Infinitive Verb[/SIZE]

Are "Verbs that Followed by an Object Before the Second Infinitive Verb such as advise and encourage" the opposite of "catenative verbs?" Do we call them separable verbs since they need to be followed by an object before the second infinitive verb?


 

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Are "Verbs that Followed by an Object Before the Second Infinitive Verb such as advise and encourage" the opposite of "catenative verbs?"
You can't really have an 'opposite' of a catenative verb.
Do we call them separable verbs since they need to be followed by an object before the second infinitive verb?
No, we don't.
 
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