Set phrases and patterns
What a word requires
What a word requires
What needs to go with this word, and in what form?
complementation pattern
complement
gerund
Kahulugan
Some words require a partner in a particular form, not just any word that makes sense. Knowing the pattern helps you connect a person, a thing, or another action to that word. Languages may use word endings, small linking words, or particular verb forms; some have no word endings for these links. Unlike Words that go together, What a word requires concerns the form of the connection, not just a usual choice of words.
Paano ito matukoy
Choose a word and check what can go with it, whether its partners can be left out, and which forms are accepted.