Is the word broken a verb

Table of Contents

  1. What type of verb is break?
  2. What is the noun for broken?
  3. What are broken words?
  4. What can I say instead of broken?
  5. What is the spelling of broken?
  6. What snaps mean from a girl?
  7. Does snap mean photo?
  8. What’s your snap meaning?
  9. Is Snap same as picture?
  10. What is the difference between a photo and a snapshot?
  11. Can Portraits be two people?
  12. Why is it called a snapshot?
  13. How do I take a good snapshot?
  14. What is the difference between a snapshot and a fine art photography?
  15. How can I smile better in photos?
  16. Should teeth show when smiling?
  17. Is it OK to smile with your mouth closed?
  18. How do you smile cute?
  19. What does lopsided smile mean?
  20. Are lopsided smiles pretty?
  21. Is a lopsided smile bad?
  22. Why is my smile wonky?
  23. Why are smiles crooked after braces?

“Broken” isn’t a verb. It’s part of a form of the verb “to break.” We use the past participle of the verb to form the passive voice of the verb – in this case “to be broken” or “to get broken.”

What type of verb is break?

Conjugation of ‘Break’

Base Form (Infinitive): Break
Past Simple: Broke
Past Participle: Broken
3rd Person Singular: Breaks
Present Participle/Gerund: Breaking

What is the noun for broken?

An instance of breaking something into two pieces. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. A rest or pause, usually from work.

What are broken words?

To fail to act as one has promised. Tom said he’d help us move, but he broke his word and failed to show. If you keep flaking out, you’re going to become known as someone who breaks their word. See also: break, word.

What can I say instead of broken?

Synonyms & Antonyms of broken

  • busted,
  • fractured,
  • fragmented,
  • shattered,
  • smashed.

What is the spelling of broken?

Correct spelling for the English word “broken” is [bɹˈə͡ʊkən], [bɹˈə‍ʊkən], [b_ɹ_ˈəʊ_k_ə_n] (IPA phonetic alphabet).

What snaps mean from a girl?

Sending snaps constantly means showing more of yourself. It’s true that the girl is interested in you but at the same time she is more obsessed with her snaps that she wants you to get more attracted to her.

Does snap mean photo?

To my mind, a snap is a casual photograph, one that is usually taken on a compact camera, using automatic settings, without any thought of lighting, composition or other technicalities. The point of a snap is simply to preserve a memory of a person, a place or an event.

What’s your snap meaning?

Snap: When you take a photo or video, or receive a photo or video, it is known as a “snap”. So, when someone asks you to snap them, they are asking you to send them a photo or video through Snapchat, or even a message through the app’s chat function.

Is Snap same as picture?

SNAP: It is the sudden capture that is performed for a fast moving subject. PICTURE: It is the output result which we generally see on our camera screen, tv screen or computer screen after the capture has been made. CLICK: It is the action of pressing the shutter button to capture any photograph or moment.

What is the difference between a photo and a snapshot?

A snapshot is a casual photograph typically made by an amateur with a handheld camera. By contrast, photography is more considered and often carried out by a professional or semi-professional. Photography seems much more complicated than shooting snapshots—but it doesn’t have to be.

Can Portraits be two people?

One can also say “individual portrait”, but generally the implication of the term alone is that a single person is portrayed. However, if there are multiple subjects — the grandmother and granddaughter, for example — the picture isn’t automatically a portrait without some of the above.

Why is it called a snapshot?

The term arose from the fascination of artists with the ‘classic’ black-and-white vernacular snapshot, the characteristics of which were: 1) they were made with a hand-held camera on which the viewfinder could not easily ‘see’ the edges of the frame, unlike modern cheap digital cameras with electronic viewfinder, and …

How do I take a good snapshot?

Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures

  1. Look your subject in the eye.
  2. Use a plain background.
  3. Use flash outdoors.
  4. Move in close.
  5. Move it from the middle.
  6. Lock the focus.
  7. Know your flash’s range.
  8. Watch the light.

What is the difference between a snapshot and a fine art photography?

Fine art photography focuses on the more detailed points in photo’s and require thought unlike snapshot photos which are often taken randomly and have less meaning. Fine art photography has a longer history than snapshots and is a more important style when it comes to professional photography.

How can I smile better in photos?

Seven tricks to help you smile naturally and look great in photos

  1. Close your eyes. If you’re feeling nervous, take a few seconds to relax.
  2. Don’t say “cheese”
  3. Relax your face and jaw muscles.
  4. Think about something that makes you happy.
  5. Get goofy.
  6. Imagine someone you like behind the lens.
  7. Ask the photographer to tell a joke.

Should teeth show when smiling?

In an ideal smile, 100 percent of your central and lateral upper incisors and your canines should be visible, Hilton says. Usually your upper premolars and part of your first molar should be on display. Men tend to show less of their upper teeth (hence the expression “stiff upper lip”).

Is it OK to smile with your mouth closed?

Though your teeth will show a little, it is not a full-teeth smile and it will help to define your cheekbones. Smile with your lips completely closed without a slight curl. Though it’s not the friendliest option, it may help you appear slightly mysterious and even a touch sexy.

How do you smile cute?

Here are five quick tips for a picture-perfect smile.

  1. Never Have Your Top and Bottom Teeth Touching Each Other.
  2. No Joker Grinning!
  3. Wet Your Teeth Before You Smile.
  4. Keep the Camera Above Eye Level.
  5. Relax and Be Yourself!
  6. Let Us Help Make Your Smile Even Better!

What does lopsided smile mean?

A lopsided smile is an uneven smile. It appears uneven in a way where the left side and the right side of the mouth do not match. One side of the face is pulled up in a way where it’s smiling and the other side is the opposite which means it may be downturned.

Are lopsided smiles pretty?

Researchers found that a slight crookedness is actually better than none because these smiles tend to appear more genuine. However, extremely crooked smiles weird people out. While an attractive, genuine smile, is a great asset, researchers had a serious medical reason for doing the study.

Is a lopsided smile bad?

A crooked smile can increase your odds of developing gum disease, tooth decay, tooth damage, jaw disorders, bruxism, and more.

Why is my smile wonky?

Dental Issues That Are Often Related to a Crooked Smile However, a crooked smile isn’t always caused by crowded teeth. It can be caused by total malocclusion of the teeth and/or the jawbone. This level of misalignment can result in difficulty chewing and jaw pain.

Why are smiles crooked after braces?

Answer: Uneven smile First, if the size of the teeth are equal on both sides, then it is an issue of the lip, not the gums. If that is the case, a little botox will level out the smile line. If the teeth are different sizes, then a gum lift and veneers are possible.

As Cambridge dictionary explains, when it describes something damaged, broken can be both predicative and attributive adjectives.

1. He put a sheet of plastic over the broken window. (attributive)

2. She had an X-ray to see if any of her ribs were broken. (predicative)

Regarding the third sentence, you need to use an article before the adjective.


However, you can consider be+broken as a passive construction, but in the passives the agents are the key elements. In other words, you use passives when the agent is more important than the subject. Needless to say that, be itself, is a linking verb which can be followed by adjectives.

I think if your examples were with more details, then it would be more easy to judge them:

  • This window is broken by little pressure. I don’t like it! (broken is a verb)
  • This window is broken though it couldn’t be discerned easily. (broken is an adjective)

  • #1

Hello.
I think that «broken» in 1 and 2 is different.
«broken» in 1 is a past participle and «broken» in 2 is an adjective.
Am I right?

1. “The government is unable to present any factual evidence that the ship was broken in half by a torpedo,”

2. Lilianna Nguyen, a recent Stanford graduate, dressed formally in high heels, was trying to teach a sixth-grade math class about negative numbers. She’d prepared definitions to be copied down, but the projector was broken.

Thank you.

    • #2

    Yes, you are right, in my view, Takahero.

    Many past participles can be used both to form passives and attributively, as adjectives.

    • #3

    Thank you.

    To check whether our view is correct or not, I would like you to judge whether the following sentences are acceptable or not.

    3. “The government is unable to present any factual evidence that the ship remained / looked / seemed broken in half by a torpedo,”

    4. Lilianna Nguyen, a recent Stanford graduate, dressed formally in high heels, was trying to teach a sixth-grade math class about negative numbers. She’d prepared definitions to be copied down, but the projector remained / looked /seemed broken.

    suzi br


    • #4

    I don’t really understand your second post.

    Classifying the function of any word in a sentence is to do with the overall structure of the sentence.

    The passive verb structure in the first one is indicated by word order and the use of the word BY to show the agent of the action so you can confidently say that broken is working as a verb participle.

    To classify a word as an adjective you need to be sure which noun it is modifying. In the second one it is harder to be sure. Broken would be obviously be classified as an adjective if you had this:
    She couldn’t do the lesson she had planned because of the broken projector (the adjective is in its usual place preceding the noun).

    Scholiast


    • #5

    If I may interrupt:

    A participle is what its Latin origin (parti-cipium) says it is: a word which «shares» («partakes») of the functions of both a verb and an adjective.

    This works for most IE languages at least.

    In English, most past participles will be serviceable as adjectives as well:

    A broken window
    The vanquished enemy
    Made in Sheffield

    And (rightly) the distinction is not always in writing clear, because in grammar, a participle is an adjectival, or indeed nominal, epithet:

    «The doomed»
    «A flunked job»
    «Beaten at the battle of Pharsalus, Pompey fled to Egypt» — or indeed, though less elegantly, «The beaten Pompey fled….»

    • #6

    I don’t understand your further question either. Are these multiple choice? If so, you need to tell us your choices.

    • #7

    I am sorry that my post is confusing.

    Grammar books say that if «broken» is a verb, it can only be used with a «be» verb and if «broken» is an adjective, it can be used with «remain», «look» and «seem», in additon to a «be» verb.
    So, I tried to know whether «broken» in 1 and 2 is a verb or an adjective by citing sentences 3 and 4.

    Is this explanation is clear.

    • #8

    Hi Takahero,

    Broken is not a special case. When a past participle is used to form a tense, it can be used with both the main auxiliary verbs, as long as the verb is transitive,

    e.g.: I have broken — with to have to form the present perfect — or it was broken — with to be to form the perfect of the passive.

    I can see that there can be a problem in recognising whether it was broken is the perfect of the passive, i.e. it was broken then and there, or it was + broken (adjectival), i.e. it was in a state of being broken. It can mean either, and you have to judge from the context which is intended.

    Are you sure you are quoting the ‘grammar books’ correctly?

    suzi br


    • #9

    Dear Takahero, part of your problem is the difference between two approaches to grammar.

    1. My answers to your questions are descriptive. I see grammar as a tool for describing what people actually do.
    2. Your grammar book is prescriptive, aiming to give «rules» for what to do.

    Obviously there is some overlap between these two, but native speakers do not learn to talk by leaning the sort of rules grammar books write out for foreign students. That is why we have trouble making sense of your prescriptive «rules» .. we literally do not think in those terms about constructing a sentence.

    Your study books are trying to cover a range of options in their «rules» to make things clear for you, but in the end, what people DO and what you can find in real written examples is far more important than trying to make up sentences to match a set of prescriptive rules.

    This is especially true with participles, where the classification of adjective / verb actually overlaps, as Scholiast explains. I have tried to give you a flexible way of learning to classify according to the sentence structure and I still cannot help you with the rest of your question.

    • #10

    «Broken» isn’t a verb. It’s part of a form of the verb «to break.» We use the past participle of the verb to form the passive voice of the verb — in this case «to be broken» or «to get broken.»

    As you’ve noticed, you can’t replace «to be» in the first sentence with any other linking verb — because «broken» is not an adjective, but instead an integral part of the passive voice of the verb «to break.» So you can’t swap out the linking verb (as you can in your second sentence), but you can rewrite the sentence in the active voice:

    «The government is unable to produce any factual evidence that a torpedo broke the ship in half

    The key element, here, which really proves that the passive voice is being used, is — as suzi pointed out in post 4 — the word «by.»

    • #11

    Thank you for your advice.
    Finally, i would like to check whether my understanding is correct.

    3. “The government is unable to present any factual evidence that the ship remained / looked / seemed broken in half by a torpedo,”

    4. Lilianna Nguyen, a recent Stanford graduate, dressed formally in high heels, was trying to teach a sixth-grade math class about negative numbers. She’d prepared definitions to be copied down, but the projector remained / looked /seemed broken.

    3 is incorrect and 4 is acceptable.
    Is that right?

    Pertinax


    • #12

    I would say that (3) is acceptable syntactically, but semantically bizarre. If you change «broken in half» to «damaged» then it would make more sense.

    (4) is perfectly acceptable.

    The use of the word “broke” as an adjective to describe something damaged or not working is very common. But it is incorrect! The reason has to do with how the word “broke” functions in different ways in a sentence. Let’s take a look.

    BROKE: in verb form, is the past tense of “break.” (I broke my toe.)

    BROKE: in adjective form, means “without money, poor.” (I was broke after my trip to New York City.) This is the only usage/definition of BROKE in adjective form — to lack money. Broke in adjective form does NOT mean “damaged”; that is another word altogether: broken.

    BROKEN: in verb form, is the past participle of “break” (My little toe has been broken three different times!) It should be noted that the past participle of most verbs is formed by adding -ed, but “broke” is irregular. Thus, it is not “broked”; it is “broken.”

    BROKEN: in adjective form, means “damaged or altered by breaking, not working.” (Don’t sit there — the chair is broken!) Broken in adjective form does NOT mean “lacking money.”

    As you can see, the word broken can be used as either an ADJECTIVE – a broken ladder – or as the PAST PARTICIPLE of the VERB break when supported by has / have / had. (has broken / have broken / had broken). Here are some more examples:

    CORRECT: “The toy is broken.” (You are describing the toy as damaged —-> use “broken”) ✔️

    The toy is NOT broked. (“Broked” is not the correct past participle of “break.”) ❌
    The toy is NOT broke. (Broke as an adjective means “without money.”)
    The toy is BROKEN. ✔️

    Remember: An adjective modifies a person, place or thing (noun). The adjective “broke” means poor/without money, and the adjective “broken” means damaged.

    The broke college student (poor)
    The college student was broke (poor)
    The broken phone (damaged)
    The phone was broken (damaged)

    In contrast, here are “broke” and “broken” in verb forms:

    I broke my husband’s favorite glass. (past tense of break)
    I had broken the screen of my phone twice before I finally bought a protective case. (past participle of break)

    In summary, here are the correct usages:
    BROKE is the past tense of the VERB break
    BROKE is an ADJECTIVE when describing a person without money.
    BROKEN is the past participle of the VERB break
    BROKEN is an ADJECTIVE when describing something damaged, not working, etc.

    The incorrect usages are:
    BROKE as an adjective to describe something damaged
    BROKED as the past participle of the verb break

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