Full Definition of SUBJECTIVE

1: of, relating to, or constituting a subject: as

a obsolete : of, relating to, or characteristic of one that is a subject especially in lack of
freedom of action or in submissiveness
b : being or relating to a grammatical subject; especially : nominative
2: of or relating to the essential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or
relations
3a : characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind
: phenomenal compare objective 1b
b : relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental
characteristics or states
4a (1) : peculiar to a particular individual : personal <subjective judgments> (2) : modified
or affected by personal views, experience, or background <a subjective account of the
incident>
b : arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by
external stimuli <subjective sensations>
c : arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes
<a subjective symptom of disease> compare objective 1c
5: lacking in reality or substance : illusory
subjectively adverb
subjectiveness noun
subjectivity
\-jek-ti-v-t\ noun

Examples of SUBJECTIVE
1. Dreaming is a subjective experience.
2. a person's subjective perception of the world
3. Personal taste in clothing is very subjective.
4. In reviewing applicants, we consider both objective criteria, such as test scores, and
subjective criteria, such as leadership ability.
5. Law can be maddeningly subjective. So much is left up to your own interpretation.
6. Art is never a commodity. Commodities are identical units of sure valuebushels of
wheat, saywhose price fluctuates from time to time and place to place. Art works
are one-of-a-kind items, materially worthless, which have in common that a price
is asked for them. Their value is entirely subjective. Peter Schjedlahl, New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2009
Synonyms for subjective
adj emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact

biased star

intuitive star

personal star

abstract star

illusory star

instinctive star

idiosyncratic star

fanciful star

individual star

introspective star

introverted star

prejudiced star

nonobjective star

nonrepresentative star

unobjective star

Antonyms for subjective

real objective

unbiased

unemotional

unprejudiced

meditated

subjective

Synonyms

Examples

Word Origin

adjective
1. existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought
(opposed to objective ).
2. pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual:
a subjective evaluation.
3. placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.; unduly
egocentric.
4. Philosophy. relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct
from a thing in itself.
5. relating to properties or specific conditions of the mind as distinguished from general or
universal experience.
6. pertaining to the subject or substance in which attributes inhere; essential.
7. Grammar.
a. pertaining to or constituting the subject of a sentence.
b. (in English and certain other languages) noting a case specialized for that use, as He
in He hit the ball.
c. similar to such a case in meaning.
Compare nominative.

Verb
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the part of speech. For the physical activity program, see VERB
(program). For English usage of verbs, see English verbs.

A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning 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. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to
encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender, and/or
number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. Verbs have tenses: present, to
indicate that an action is being carried out; past, to indicate that an action has been done;
future, to indicate that an action will be done.

Agreement
Main article: Grammatical conjugation
In languages where the verb is inflected, it often agrees with its primary argument (the
subject) in person, number, and/or gender. With the exception of the verb to be, English
shows distinctive agreements only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs,
which are marked by adding "-s" ( walks) or "-es" (fishes). The rest of the persons are not
distinguished in the verb (I walk, you walk, they walk, etc.).
Latin and the Romance languages inflect verbs for tenseaspectmood (abbreviated 'TAM'),
and they agree in person and number (but not in gender, as for example in Polish) with the
subject. Japanese, like many languages with SOV word order, inflects verbs for tense-aspectmood, as well as other categories such as negation, but shows absolutely no agreement with
the subject - it is a strictly dependent-marking language. On the other hand, Basque,
Georgian, and some other languages, have polypersonal agreement: the verb agrees with the
subject, the direct object, and even the secondary object if present, a greater degree of headmarking than is found in most European languages.

Verb types
Verbs vary by type, and each type is determined by the kinds of words that accompany it and
the relationship those words have with the verb itself. Classified by the number of their
valency arguments, usually three basic types are distinguished: intransitives, transitives,
ditransitives and double transitive verbs. Some verbs have special grammatical uses and
hence complements, such as copular verbs (i.e., be); the verb "do" used for do-support in
questioning and negation, and tense or aspect auxiliaries, e.g., "be", "have" or "can". In
addition, verbs can be nonfinite, namely, not inflected for tense, and have various special
forms such as infinitives, participles or gerunds.[1]

VERBS
Verbs have traditionally been defined as words that show action or state of being.

Verbs can also sometimes be recognized by their position in a sentence.

In the following two sentence frames, only a verb can be put into the empty slot.
NOUN __________
(verb)

THERE ________ NOUN

(verb)

Often, prefixes and suffixes (affixes) will signify that a word is a verb. For example,
the suffixes -ify, -ize, -ate, or -en usually signify that a word is a verb, as in typify,
characterize, irrigate, and sweeten. Prefixes such as be-, de-, or en- may signify
that a word is a verb, as in bestow, dethrone, and encourage.
These affixes, often inconsistent from verb to verb, are called derivational affixes.
Added to a word, they either change the word's part of speech
Example:

or change the word's meaning

Example:

The base form of a verb is derived from the verbs infinitive: to

+ verb

Four suffixes consistently added to a verbs base create all forms of a verb used in
all tenses:
1. -s creates 3rd person singular / present tense (He talks.)
2. -ing

creates the present participle / used with be (He is talking.)

3. -ed

creates the simple past (He talked.)

4. -en

creates the past participle / used with have (He has talked.)

Note:

The -en verb ending used with a form of to have as an auxiliary is generally
written -ed, as in has talked.

Unlike the derivational affixes, these inflectional suffixes are consistently used with all
verbs, even though their form may look different from verb to verb.
Because many verbs in English are irregular; as result, their ed and/or en endings
may not follow any obvious pattern.

Examples:
Smith writes short stories at home. (-s ending)
Smith is writing short stories at home. (-ing ending)
(to write)

Smith wrote short stories at home. (-ed ending)

Smith has written short stories at home. (-en ending)
*
Jones buys a newspaper each day. (-s ending)
Jones is buying a newspaper today. (-ing ending)

(to buy)

Jones bought a newspaper yesterday. (-ed ending)

Jones has bought newspapers every day. (-en ending)
*
Students go to the library often. (-s ending)
Students are going to the library often. (-ing ending)

(to go)
Students went to the library often. (-ed ending)
Students have gone to the library often. (-en ending)