promotes
- 1Third-person singular simple present of promote.
The company promotes employees who consistently exceed their targets.
Regular reading promotes vocabulary growth in young children.
Note
The -s form shared by every sense of the verb, and nearly all of them need a direct object: a company promotes staff, an advertiser promotes a product, a chess player promotes a pawn, a chemist promotes a catalyst. Sports leagues are the exception. That use is regional and usually passive (the club was promoted), so the plain active form seldom carries it.
promotes is a form of promote
promote, verb: To encourage people to support someone or something, adopt an action or attitude, or buy something, including through advertising and publicity. Full entry
- Spelling
- promote → promotes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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