Common Verbs of the First Sentence Type - Part 1
▶️ appear/show up/disappear/emerge
Adele is the most exciting British singer to emerge on the pop scene in a decade.
When it comes to playing PC games, handheld gaming PCs are slowly emerging as viable alternatives to big laptops.
His name appears in the film credits for post-production.
Kevin didn’t appear at work today. Is he on vacation or did he call in sick?
👉 appear also has the second largest sentence verb usage in
English (see Lesson 8)
Scientists agree that greenhouse gas emissions need to
essentially disappear by the middle of the century in order to avoid catastrophic
climate change.
▶️ occur/happen/take place
A foreclosure occurs/happens when you fall too far behind on your mortgage payments and the
banks repossess your home.
Earthquakes take place/occur/happen
along the faults.
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Other usages of “occur” and “happen”
(1) thought, idea + occur to + person = idea, idea
appears in someone's head
(2) It occurs to me that = I suddenly remembered
(3) thing + happen to + person
(4) person + happen to + verb
A great idea occurred to me.
It suddenly occurred to me that I forgot to go to Joanne’s party last night. It never even occurred to
me that I was invited.
Something terrible might have happened to
Tim. He hasn't showed up for a week.
I happened to see Ryan yesterday at the train station.
I just
happened to
be walking past when he came out of the shop.
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▶️ take place
Enrollment will take place
in September.
This year's conference will take place
in an online format.
▶️When depart and leave refer to people or means of
transportation "departure; departure", the two can be used
interchangeably.
The train for Yilan will depart/leave from platform 2.
We should
depart/leave
soon if we want to arrive on time.