appears
Sayuh-PEERZ/əˈpɪɹz/UK/əˈpɪəz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of appear.
The witness appears confident under cross-examination.
A faint light appears on the horizon just before dawn.
Note
The -s ending marks a singular subject in the present, and the form carries every use of appear, from coming into sight to standing before a court. As a linking verb it takes an adjective or a noun phrase directly. George Luxford and Edward Newman's The Phytologist (1846) has hypothesis "appears to us a title too honourable," where to us names whose impression it is.
appears is a form of appear
appear, verb: To seem, or give the impression of being or doing something; also, to seem from the evidence to be the case. Full entry
- Spelling
- appear → appears: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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