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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:21, greg wrote:
li'o
> 4) Should all english verbs have a "to" in front (robin created "exit" and
> "to exit")?

No. The lexical form is the infinitive without "to".

> 5)how should exit the verb be separated from exit the noun? we currently
> have:
>
> exit in the sense of leave
> exit in the sense of an action
>
> and I was thinking of having either:
>
> exit; action
> exit; verb
>
> (how does this work when we don't have a convenient synonym?)

I think it should be:
exit; leave
exit; act of leaving
exit; door
but for words that just have one noun sense and one verb sense, otherwise 
meaning the same, distinguish them as "noun" and "verb".