occurs
- 1Third-person singular simple present of occur.
Crystallization occurs as the warm solution cools slowly overnight.
A blackout occurs whenever demand outpaces what the power grid can supply.
Note
The form that pairs with he, she, it or any singular noun subject; only the -s ending changes. Every use of occur is intransitive, so it never takes a direct object and has no passive: something occurs, but nothing is occurred. It also carries the impersonal construction, it occurs to me that…, where the idea is the true subject. Elsewhere the final r doubles: occurred, occurring.
It occurs to her that the back door was left unlocked.
It never occurs to him to ask for help.
occurs is a form of occur
occur, verb: To happen or arise, usually at a particular time or in particular circumstances. Full entry
- Spelling
- occur → occurs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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