| 单词 | verb |
| 例句 | They can also show up as an adjunct to a verb phrase or clause, as in She died young And They showed up drunk. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Park addressed Shin using honorific nouns and verb endings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The verb aggravate does not mean “annoy”; it means “make worse.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Wedging an extra phrase into a tree is just one of the ways in which a subject can be separated from its verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When a statement starts with there, the verb can be either singular or plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I think you’re both wrong. People are nouns, actions are verbs. Apples and oranges.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In cases where we’d normally use the verbs was or were, we use be instead. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It survives a kind of life where pamper is a noun, not a verb. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When both halves of the subject—the parts on either side of or or nor—are singular, so is the verb: Neither alcohol nor tobacco is allowed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish, when I was back in that French class, that I had connected the conjugations, verbs, and gendered nouns to something grander. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The object, for example, pretty much has to come after the verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z TOMBSTONE: Always put the subject of a sentence before the verb. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a verb, even if it’s only suggested, there’s nothing going on, just a lot of nouns standing around with their hands in their pockets. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She got mixed up on verbs like “come” and “came,” as well as on plurals of words like “house” and “mouse.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When the main action takes place in a past tense, the verb that follows after is in the simple past: I would have started dinner after the guests arrived. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I do my homework— choose five verbs and conjugate them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Rank continued, using the verb in a sentence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There’s almost no way to finish it correctly, because so few verbs go with both have and will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I went downstairs again, and back to the subjunctive verbs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Can you help me? I’m having trouble with my verbs.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The other word, jive, is a noun, a verb, and an adjective referring to hot music or to baloney. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By the way, the form of the verb used here—be instead of was or were—is similar to the one used for a command: Be good! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake watched in amazement as Grace clearly explained the difference between the two verbs. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But instead I watch as she conjugates verbs. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I had learned eighty-five Vietnamese phrases over the last seven days, as well as a great deal of verb conjugation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There’s more about total, majority, and number in the chapter on verbs, page 51. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What participial adjective is formed from the verb "dignify"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Granger jammed the whole day’s work into the last eight minutes, a blur of verbs and nouns and prepositions, and yes, there was another homework assignment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I give her something paltry and useless: a verb to conjugate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Similarly, the allegedly unsplittable verb will execute is not a verb at all but two verbs, the auxiliary verb will and the main verb execute. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One I is enough for both the noun and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We pieced together new words by taking, say, an English verb and giving it Spanish endings. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If no verb follows, choose like: Homer walks like a duck. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But one verb has a special form to express remoteness: be, which distinguishes If I was from If I were. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If you don’t trust me, just turn the sentences around in your mind and you’ll end up with the correct verbs: Of the authors who say it best, he is one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Write and define adjectives denoting that may be, or having the power, from the following verbs:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s taken for granted in English, though, is spelled out in Chinese; there’s even a verb construction for this purpose. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Many sentences, though, have several things going on in them—actions happening at different times, each with its own verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If you haven’t been keeping the tree suspended in memory, the word islands, which is ringing in your mind’s ear just before you type the verb, will contaminate the number you give the verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if you want to emphasize that several things about Phyllis show her age, you should choose plurals for both verbs: What give away Phyllis's age are the knees and the facelift. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The one with an e is a verb: He loathes chicken vindaloo. may/might. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But the “subject” and “verb” that have to agree are defined by branches in the tree, not words in the string. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At one time, everyone agreed that the verb get had two past participles: got and gotten. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some writers and editors believe that if that can logically follow a verb, it should be there. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than practicing my irregular verbs or trying to make sense of my day, I pass the time by replaying one of my current, ongoing fantasies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Which verbs would be better in these examples? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This problem comes up when we use have and will with the same verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as we shall see in chapter 6, using a comma to separate a subject from its predicate or a verb from one of its complements is among the most grievous sins of mispunctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But that particular verb doesn’t do the action justice. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes into French class, Madame O’Malley was conjugating the verb to believe in the subjunctive. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Then there are those pesky little verbs that are as annoying as ants at a picnic, and just about as hard to tell apart: sit and set, rise and raise, lie and lay. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had studied and asked questions with the same unwavering intensity as when he had trapped and pelted and cured a Hebrew verb. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If you don't want to seem repetitive by using different forms of the same verb, rearrange the sentence: They never have forgotten Pahs and never will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The key to making subject and verb agree is to correctly identify the subject, and for that you have to simplify the sentence in your mind and eliminate the extraneous stuff. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One day we worked on verb tenses: “I surf the Net, I surfed the Net, I was surfing the Net.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I counter with “pronk,” which I tell him is a verb. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z No wonder the verb is often the most interesting word in a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When used as a verb, this word impacts me the wrong way. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even when I hollered out that I could tell her why “to write” was a strong verb. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But in fact, the verb stays the same, needs, despite the added details. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half is convinced that Luke Potter will become a verb like Xerox or fax. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The verb allot, by the way, means “parcel out.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If a sentence has other verbs in the past tense, use only might. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the main action in a sentence takes place in the present or in a future tense, the verb that follows after is in the simple present: I start dinner after the guests arrive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I have two pieces of advice about verbs ending in ize: • Don’t coin any new ones. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma persistently using the wrong verb, or none at all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, as my mentor, Vice Principal Metzer, always says, “Rich is an adjective, wealth is a verb.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s’s from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word “postmodernist.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The verbs would come in due time, but until then I needed a comfortable place to hide. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Keep that in mind, and may all your verbs live happily ever after. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no distinctive subjunctive form in English; the construction just uses the unmarked form of the verb, such as live, come, and be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This demandingness is called government, and it can also be seen in the way that verbs and adjectives are picky about their complements. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For more on what with verbs, see pages 51—52. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The $64,000 question: How do we figure out whether an ing word is acting like a verb or like a noun? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And today she was reviewing a bunch of verbs I’d already memorized, so I found my attention drifting almost immediately. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The words jibe, gibe, and jive are all verbs meaning to “kid” or “heckle.” lay/lie. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If you strip the clause of its false clues—the words separating the subject and verb—you end up with who . . . played for high stakes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, other words may get in between the subject and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s more about the demise of shall in the chapter on verbs, page 69. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, the two sides of the coin, the either and or parts, must match grammatically— subject with subject, verb with verb, preposition with preposition, adjective with adjective, and so on. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Today’s contractions generally include a verb, along with a subject or the word “not.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives—thousands of them—as well as a cool sentence-maker that is located on another level. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Behind my eyes I conjugate irregular Spanish verbs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Do you choose a singular or a plural verb? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m working hard at French, cramming five irregular verbs into my head every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Those are past tenses of related verbs, waken and awaken. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A verb phrase is a string of words of any length which fills a particular slot in a tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She wrote for two hours that night, putting the word “heart” together with every verb she could think of. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me, Henry, if I put one of these bullets right into your head and got your brains all over Kelton and his MoonPie, would I be a noun or a verb?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The company was right not to revise it to Think Differently: the verb think can take an adjectival complement which refers to the nature of the thoughts being entertained. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She said it over and over, like it wasn’t a verb so much as a Buddhist mantra. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The verb vulcanize means “to strengthen a material such as rubber by combining it with sulfur and then applying heat and pressure.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Light verbs such as make, do, have, bring, put, and take often do nothing but create a slot for a zombie noun, as in make an appearance and put on a performance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The verb to be never takes an object. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Or drivel In other words, what kind of verb goes with a phrase like one of the, one of those, or one of these? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I can't count anymore by 7s, but I can conjugate irregular Latin verbs, and I do this while she speaks to me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Our teacher, Ms. Rank, was standing at the front of the class, slowly conjugating Latin verbs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When what affects two verbs in the same sentence, the verbs should be alike—both singular or both plural, not one of each: What gives away Phyllis's age is her bad knees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You can’t just string these verbs together like beads in a necklace. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Combine and define confine + ment.—What other part of speech than a verb is "confine"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in many cases a quantifier naturally floats leftward away from the verb, unsplitting the infinitive, as in the examples on the right: It seems monstrous to even suggest the possibility. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There’s more about any and all in the chapter on verbs, None is the most difficult of the two-faced words, those that can be either singular or plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Good writers may have no explicit awareness of how these constructions and verb types work, and they certainly don’t know their names. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If a sentence starts with there, its real subject follows the verb, as in: There was a young man from Darjeeling. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Use the plural verb: Phyllis is wearing what look like false eyelashes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And as a verb, to like is to be fond of someone or something. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the deep structure, the w/i-word appears in the position you’d expect for an ordinary sentence, in this case after the verb love, as in I love Lucy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because a verb expresses action, it has a dimension that other words lack—time. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But in informal writing and conversation, if no one's likely to mistake your meaning it's fine to put only where it seems most natural—usually in front of the verb: I’m only saying this once. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I would look up a word in the lexicon only to forget it when I turned to write it down; my noun cases, my verb forms, had left me utterly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The worst thing that happened was we had twice as many Latin verbs to study at school when we went back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Except can also be a verb—it means “exclude” or “leave out”—but its usual meaning is “other than.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s true that a passive verb makes for a wimpier, more roundabout way of saying something. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z August 21 Second Rule Add an s to verbs acted by one person in the present tense, even if there’s already an s sound nearby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Use ‘estar’ for something that can change—like your confusion about these two verbs. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z When out is used as a verb, I start to hyperventilate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s perfectly natural to split the parts of a verb like have gone by putting an adverb between them: The goombahs have finally gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes verbs sound daunting, but they’re actually not that bad. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In Oedipus thought that Polybus was his father, the clause that Polybus was his father is a complement of the verb thought. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Part of her was itching to run to the nursery, meet the children, and begin instructing them immediately in Latin verbs and the correct use of globes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z As you can see, what can be either singular or plural when it’s the subject of a verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And don’t you just hate it when people here use ‘on as a verb? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The verb is the business end of a sentence, the sentences reason for being. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When what is the subject of two verbs in the same sentence, make the verbs match in number—both singular or both plural, not one of each. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And the streets had erased everything I’d ever learned in school; I didn’t know a verb from a house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t use hardly with a negative verb, as in: She can't hardly see without her glasses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening, I was working on Shona verb conjugations when my father arrived with news. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When you see one, make sure it’s “hitched” to the right verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If neither is followed by a verb, then so is nor: Oscar neither likes nor eats them. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But some verb sequences are harder to sort out than others. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But it takes time to match every noun and verb, sort all the tenses, remember all the articles, set the tone for every s. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z These are often confused when paired with other verbs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After my irregular French verbs, I joined them and read Beyond. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Here are a few of them: The subject of a tensed verb must be in nominative case, such as I, he, she, and they. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z People who confuse the two may think that the adjectives in these sentences “modify the verb” and hence ought to be replaced by adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For instance, in English it’s not obvious how to draw a picture of the common syllable -tion, but we could instead draw a picture illustrating the verb shun, which has the same pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t speak Kushoto, I can barely conjugate a verb correctly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Apparently reflexive verbs gain a new importance for certain girls at the age of fifteen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Take agreement between the subject and the verb: we say The bridge is crowded, but The bridges are crowded. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Another major resource that English puts at a writer’s disposal is the choice of verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The closer the subject is to the verb, the less likely the reader will get lost. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z August 29 Fourth Rule Some verbs switch all over just because. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When both halves are plural, so is the verb: Ties or cravats are required. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, this theory would also retroactively outlaw choreograph, diagnose, resurrect, edit, sculpt, sleepwalk, and hundreds of other verbs that have become completely unexceptionable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Who can identify the implied verb?” she asked. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some English teachers frown on starting a sentence with there, possibly because they prefer keeping the real subject before the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If one is a verb or an adjective, so is the other: His attentions both pleased and flattered them. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no way to indicate verbs or adjectives, no way to distinguish subject from object, and only a limited vocabulary. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Words don’t come with labels like “I’m a noun” or “I’m a verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The advice to bring zombie nouns back to life as verbs and to convert passives into actives is ubiquitous in style guides and plain language laws. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I also observed that his name, backward, was the French verb for wearing one’s clothes threadbare, so I told him that as well, with no offense intended as his clothes were fine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the spot in front of the main verb is often the most natural resting place for an adverb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Yes. Start with the word manifest Its a verb as well as a noun. Look it up.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There are plenty of reasons a verb can go astray. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The last example shows that verbs can be drained of life when they are turned into adjectives, too, as when contribute becomes contributive to or aspire becomes on the aspirational level. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the first example, one is not the subject of the verb say. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Malik insists that Jar Jar Binks should be a verb, adjective, and an adverb to describe whack stuff because Jar Jar Binks is the worst character in the Star Wars universe. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Random House Dictionary: “Nothing in the history of the infinitive in English ... supports the so-called rule, and in many sentences ... the only natural place for the modifying adverb is between to and the verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z TOMBSTONE: Data and media are strictly plural nouns and always take plural verbs. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She learned the words “hungry” and “eat,” even though hunger was a constant and the food she was given was barely life-sustaining, as well as verbs like “try” and “cry” and “die.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The last syllable is different in the verb and the noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Together with its grammatical category, verb, we see a label in parentheses for its grammatical function, in this case, head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If the part nearer the verb is plural, the verb is plural: Neither the milk nor the eggs were fresh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If we used only one verb per sentence, we'd never have trouble choosing the tense—past, present, future, or whatever: They waltzed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All the words poured out of me, a supernova of nouns and verbs, the containers of everything, now nameless, now just there. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Or the object may end up in front of both the subject and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When a sentence has if in it, the verbs have to be in balance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts. And what we don't have is a verb. Nothing makes sense without a verb. What about the judge?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z If the part nearer the verb is singular, the verb is singular: Neither the eggs nor the milk was fresh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stresses the verb confessing as if their father were actually being pious in looking ahead for his daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In this sticker a concrete verb in the active voice and the use of the second person narrate a concrete event: if you do this, it can kill you. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There’s more about none in the chapter on verbs, page 51, and on pages 213-214. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed the book on French verbs for the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Subjects are special: all verbs have one, and it sits outside the verb phrase, occupying one of the two major branches of the clause, the other being the predicate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The answer in a nutshell: • If a that or a who comes before the verb, it’s plural: He’s one of the authors who say it best. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the menu of constructions, the menu of verbs can give a writer several options on where to place a given, new, light, or heavy phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There’s more about couple in the chapter on verbs; see page 51. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why not just use the verb that spawned the zombie in the first place, like appear or perform? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He’s my literature and linguistics teacher, and he’s currently trying to teach me how to conjugate basic Kushoto verbs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The term, “relocation” abbreviated, was used as noun and verb to describe the nomadic lives of white-collar families employed by global companies. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Other than Cookie Monster and Tarzan, most of us effortlessly choose the right case whenever a pronoun is found in its usual place in the tree, next to the governing verb or preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Most verbs that take subjectless complements, such as try in Alice tried to calm down, are governed by an ironclad rule that forces the overt subject to be identical to the missing subject. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Brittney is the kind of person for whom active verbs and modifiers were invented. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Daddy and I made the beds, and afterward I learned five irregular French verbs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They come from verbs—go, in the case of going—and usually act like verbs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An infinitive is a verb in its simplest form, right out of the box. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My preceptor indicated that it would delight him to offer assistance upon any point wherein his small powers might prove of use—declensions, verb irregularities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The rules of English syntax force him to put the subject before the verb, and the verb before the object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A good letter could get you a position in the better cohorts, sometimes even special jobs like legion messenger, which made you exempt from the grunt work like digging ditches or conjugating Latin verbs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Indeed, it’s a good habit to at least consider moving an adverb to the end of the verb phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I'd usually begin with the high points and end, a page or two later, by dispensing such sage professional advice as “Punctuation never hurt anyone" or “Think verbs!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It also determines the grammatical category of the phrase: in this case it is a verb phrase, a phrase built around a verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Chloe’s eyes looked just like Mr. Travis’s did if you got all the way through conjugating your Latin verbs without no mistakes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The verb must be changed — at least in those already vast and growing areas where man is attempting to improve on nature’s way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But he may not want the reader to think about the content of the subject before she thinks about the contents of the verb and object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But Sister Redempta had said that the word was a verb as well as a noun. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Ordinarily to be is not the kind of verb that can be modified by an adverb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I wind up exhausting the listener before I even get to the verb. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Here are a couple of tips on simplifying a sentence: • Extra information inserted between subject and verb doesn’t alter the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Pefta eyeballed me as if he had to be true to his verb and see every part of me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The act of streaming transforms music from a noun into a verb, a thing into an activity. Perspective | Our access to music is unprecedented. Why does it stress us out so much? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The actor is not the first person to have his name appropriated as a verb. Noticed: When Your Life Becomes a Verb 2011-03-04T19:11:40Z I got rid of all adjectives, adverbs, even verbs and prepositions. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z You don't often hear exact used as a verb at all these days. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z "Vroom" is his favorite adjective, noun and verb. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z I was remarkably drawn to this snake oil salesman who used increase more often as a noun than a verb. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z And “-mit” verbs, like “admit,” take the short “i” sound. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z “Craft is a verb, not just an object. It is an attitude,” he said. Renwick Gallery’s ceiling installation celebrates the art in architecture 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The verb you want is whet, meaning sharpen. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Does that ever happen to you, where you don't know if you're at the preposition or the verb? Which sitcom actresses rarely watch their shows? 2010-06-10T04:18:00Z Nothing was more boring to me than explaining verb tenses and idiomatic phrases. My double life as a mommy blogger 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z I’m not so sure what’s wrong with the word “enjoy” in context, but that ban on “impact” as a verb had me in Moore’s corner from the get-go. From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z And the word “rides” is neither an exaggeration nor a verb reliant on metaphor. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z These seeming distractions legitimise the repetition of the all-important verb "choose". Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Robinson's verbs are exceptionally active, his adjectives carefully planted. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z There is so much wrong with that statement, it may get you a while to get around to the inconsistent verb tense. The Wrap delivers the worst Cosby op-ed yet 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Crucially, the subtitles are rendered in what he has described as "Navajo English", a kind of semiotic sloganeering that strips out the verbs and teeters on the verge of nonsense. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z Flanagan’s prose becomes languidly reliant on the verb “feel” and all its conjugations. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z We might think of this verb as being as normal as to be or to not be today. 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Just reading or hearing 'trump' used as a verb makes me nauseous. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The next title card uses the passive construction of the same verb to say “A new generation is inheriting the world.” What We Learned From the Japanese Captions on the New 'Star Wars' Trailer 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He weighed “every word, every verb, every nuance, so it could be as close to the English as possible,” he said. With ‘Company,’ Antonio Banderas Brings Sondheim to Spain 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Though some American dictionaries accept Obama’s mangling as a secondary pronunciation, the Oxford English makes it quite clear: “-ide” verbs, like divide, take the long “i” sound when made into adjectives. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z I can still feel the ruler on my knuckles from my sixth grade teacher, who would say: It’s a noun not a verb! Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z ‘Blitz’ is not yet used as a verb, a development I am expecting.” Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z Replace vague phrases such as “responsible for” with verbs: “oversaw,” “managed” or “led.” Work Advice: Résumés, Part 2: Winning over the humans 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Adverbs are, in general, considered weak parts of speech, at least per Strunk and White’s controversial dictum, “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs.” A Certain Word Is Really Getting on My Nerves 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z We add the usual noun and verb endings to them as appropriate. From baseball to beisuboru: Foreign languages steal from English too 2013-04-12T15:01:00Z Emphasis on might. And a whole slew of future tense auxiliary verbs. Chris Pratt of 'Jurassic World' is '(pre)apologizing' for potential press tour gaffes 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Anyway, it's time for Michael to take his foot off the pedal and go slow – which is to say fast, the verb. TV review: Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer; Britain's High Street Gamble 2012-08-06T21:00:02Z Its name, both a noun and a verb, sounds like a flourish, but it invokes its raison d’être with a dead-simple signifier. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The verb that most often describes the mode of communication favored by the president of the United States is still “said,” but it is rapidly being challenged by the expression “lashed out at.” Perspective | ‘Dumpster fires’ and other ways to evaluate Trump’s presidency through Google 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The Yaghan – long gone – lived off shellfish, and had a monosyllabic verb meaning “to unexpectedly come across something hard when eating something soft”, like a pearl in an oyster. Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Is it any wonder that Dickens, that cash-strapped father of 10, was so crazy about “pinch” as noun, verb — even name? David Quammen Turns Tough Science Into Page-Turning Pleasure 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z One of the best neologisms to bubble up during the Internet era is “moasting,” a verb that combines the words moaning and boasting. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z Some people, she explains, produce complex noun phrases and simple verb phrases; others produce complex adverbial phrases, and so on. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He too is a verb, I think, and not a noun, and shows no sign of stopping. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z He adored the 18 noun classes in Swahili and the negative verb forms in Estonian, both influences in his created languages. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z We use “friend” as a verb, and apply it to people we’ve never met. Alone in the dark 2012-07-20T15:55:00Z Moore should be happy, but he's greedy for power: as he puts it, he wants to be a verb, not an abstract noun. Thrillers: review roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z Options such as “I long to,” “I need to,” and “Let me” can combine with verbs, such as “taste” or “arouse,” and, finally, nouns, such as “your lips” or “your nipples.” The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z He then demonstrated how his friend would break into a song about a dog and a monkey, repeatedly using a verb censored on network television. Bob Saget, Comic Who Portrayed Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ Dies at 65 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z I use “divorce” not as a noun but as a transitive verb because, as I watched my mother in the months that followed, the divorce felt like something my father did to her. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In his very next entry, a few weeks later, he wrote, without further comment: “The Daily Express has used ‘blitz’ as a verb.” Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z In “Amalgamemnon,” narrated by a literature professor about to lose her job, Ms. Brooke-Rose uses only verb forms — including future tense and subjunctive mood — that conjure conditions unobtainable in the present. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z These verbs do not rank high on Hiro’s skill set or in her vocabulary. Review: A Wedding Reunion Goes Down Like a Shot of Whiskey in ‘Kentucky’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The youth-oriented station put on live acts and ended up fielding questions on Latin verbs and science. Belgian DJ breaks record in radio show marathon 2012-06-19T10:16:47Z “Run” is a verb but “running” is a gerund, she told them. This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z This is not quite right, but "action" can probably always be replaced with a more specific verb, such as "reply" or "fulfil", even if they sound less excitingly action-y. 10 of the worst examples of management-speak 2013-04-25T13:01:55Z In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z So I trusted in linguistic common sense, left out the verb, and made it ana libbi bābi "into the gate," pretty much like the English. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The verbs Kaplowitz has used to describe his action are “guide,” “lead” and “help.” Would you befriend the person who got you fired? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z One poem contains a note on Spanish verb conjugation, another features an explanation of stereotypic behavior in captive animals, a third includes a pocket history of the 1918 influenza pandemic. An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z You can use a verb, but you don’t always have to. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z His verbs suddenly aren’t planted an acre away from his nouns. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z To those who knew him well, though, there’s a verb he could have inspired, too. Meals as Metaphors: Two New Movies Provide Food for Thought 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “I’m not trying to Horatio Alger,” he verbs. Chuck Todd brings President Obama to ‘Meet the Press,’ but can he avoid giving viewers more of the same? He tallied its appearances in the Schubert and Beethoven songs, as a noun and a verb, and noted that it figures in the finales of both “An die ferne Geliebte” and “Schwanengesang.” Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z With plenty of things to climb on, climb through, ride, build and other action verbs, the kids will be plenty engaged, and you probably will be, too. Seattle beyond the Space Needle: Pick an itinerary and explore this summer 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z The verb tenses switch as we alternate between Kraft’s intellectually constipated present and his and Istvan’s back stories. For Ideologues in Silicon Valley, Everything Is Just Right 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z In the Fox series, as in the British original, “accused” is a past-tense verb; the first thing we see of Chiklis’s character, for example, is his arrival at court. Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “To bald” may not be a common intransitive verb, but that has not prevented “balding” from entering the language as a participle. Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other Thrilling Developments from the 2019 American Copy Editors Society Conference 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z And yes, a picket fence also ultimately derives from this verb. The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Diagram one of them and it’s likely: Noun, verb, adjective. Perspective | Mike Pence had a few things to say at the convention: Trump is great. Trump is great. And Trump is great. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Blended with Hemingway's journalism training and the tenets of Pound's Imagism, this results in prose that deals with its subject in short, simple sentences mostly comprised of nouns and verbs. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z They move with the stilted stage cadence of a slam poem, with awkward breaks, including some after verbs and prepositions, just to hammer home the wordplay and rhyme. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Who’s to say, given that Shakespeare’s final use of the verb “seems” in the play’s eponymous adage serves to amend his own title? Theater Review: Daring to Overcome the Difficulties of 'Problem Plays' 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z Babylonian documents normally use full sentences, with a verb, and it's hard to prove how they might have clipped them. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Isn’t the entire point of so many stories to get that ‘I’ and that ‘him’ closely aligned, separated by an all-important verb like ‘married’?” they write. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Give me that word -- I need a verb! A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z But there is also the evidence of Ms. de Lavallade in the present, belying the verb tense. Review: Carmen de Lavallade’s One-Woman Show Comes to New York 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z She'll be dead in three weeks but till then, verbs are present tense. When your friend is dying, it's OK to steal her scarves 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z She spent more than 20 minutes typing an editorial lead for the newspaper, checking spellings and verb conjugations along the way, before reading her manifesto to the reporting team. Hippie, control freak, editor, star: Gaga in action 2011-05-17T10:38:26Z When it comes to acting, particularly when I’m talking tactics, there were scenes when I had to ask Brendan, “Is this a noun or a verb?” Nick Mohammed Has Been Faking It on ‘Ted Lasso’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And then there was that awful verb — “to blog.” Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z Video games are verbs, to oversimplify an observation from the independent game designer Anna Anthropy. Still Life: Dog Ownership and Video Games 2012-07-24T17:09:30Z To some, garden is a verb; it’s the very act of tending a garden that counts, not the result. Modern gardening is about sensibilities 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Tired of being corrected for misusing “lay” for “lie” and “laid” for “lay”? It’s a matter of tense and the principal parts of two overlapping verbs. Comma Queen: The Lay of the Lie/Lay Land 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Digippear verb To use computer technology as a technique to avoid unwanted or feared issues and conversations: I tried to talk to him about his taxes but he digippeared into Facebook. Why we need to invent new words 2013-03-11T08:29:01Z Here, when the same thing happens, the movie’s title is turned into a verb. Books of The Times: Tales of Lives Extinguished All Too Soon 2011-04-12T23:52:00Z "Lay," for example, is the most slippery of verbs – and it's a noun, too, of course, meaning a ballad or song. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z These are similar verbs, both indicating that you are accepting the truth of something; the difference involves your degree of certitude. Gene Weingarten: How do you tell Snap, Crackle and Pop apart? Who cares? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Which means Quibi’s survival might not depend on becoming the new Netflix, but becoming Netflix – perhaps a tough pill to swallow for a service aiming to become its own verb for short viewing. The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75bn Netflix rival crash so fast? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Some readers thought Ross was ridiculing Hemingway when she quoted him talking in “jokey Indian language,” a strange dialect that left out verbs and articles. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Many winemakers use the French term saignée, from the verb to bleed, for this process. Five things you need to know about rosé 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But he learned the verbs, and grew up to become a prominent scholar. “Whiplash” examines the line between education and abuse 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “We use it as a verb and an adjective.” One key scene helped cement ‘Hamilton’ as a Broadway legend. The team that crafted it explains how. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z After all, the verb “bequeath” is from an Old English word meaning “to speak.” The last will and testament of a millennial 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z There’s a poem in which the British writer and musician Martin Newell turns the name of a superstar 1960s guitarist into a verb. ‘Creation Stories’ Review: The Man Behind a Raucous Record Label 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z I spent a lot of time re-passing verbs, often chanting them like a Benedictine monk, often while walking. Double take: a twice-cooked broccoli recipe direct from Rome 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z But I would come home from school and start trying to explain my excitement over irregular verbs, and the family could not take that, and so the price of education was alienation. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z Finally, the verb reappears in a different tense. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z When I used the word as a verb I was talking about a pattern of nurturing behavior rooted in the role of the father in our society. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z Several verbs in the poem suggest hunting, and an awkward, painful, inefficient "kill". Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar 2013-05-27T07:00:02Z The program includes the usual vocabulary lists and lessons in how to conjugate verbs, but students are also consistently immersed in images, audio, and video of people from different countries speaking with different accents. What’s the secret to learning a second language? 2012-10-27T12:30:00Z It’s hard to find exactly the right verb to describe the relationship between actor and character. The Sound in Their Ears? Black Thinkers Sharing ‘Lessons in Survival’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Forget cooking shrimp and grits, he said, using a much stronger verb. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z In medieval Latin, the verb sophisticare was used in relation to the dishonest tampering of goods, especially food. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The original term, which has its roots in the Greek verb for speaking, described a heroic story of oral origin. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In some circles, his name had become a verb. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Ray moans, “slimed” here standing in for a more X-rated verb that also connotes a sticky aftermath. Ghostbusters reboot: who you gonna call for slimy sex with a spectre? 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z It’s impossible to read Chekhov without adopting his verbs. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Colloquially, it's already a generic term for e-reader, so widely used it threatens to become a verb, like "to hoover" or "to google". Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon 2012-06-08T10:00:02Z She stays active, and uses up a lot of verbs in the process. In ‘The Paris Diversion,’ a Spy Stumbles in a Belated Sequel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z "America is the world's leading exporter of both regular and irregular verbs." Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends 2010-12-16T19:00:29Z When the Dow Jones Industrial Average was rising through 2007, for example, “rise,” “fall,” “close” and “gain” were the most popular verbs, peaking the week of Oct. 12th, after which the crash began. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: Predicting Bubbles and Crashes 2011-08-02T15:24:39Z While love is an active verb, sometimes it ain’t enough at all. Beyond Cool, She Was Fly. Her Confidence Gave Me Wings. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In the ambiguous tense of that verb, “read,” past and present for a moment collide and intermingle. Illuminating the Past, One Precious Book at a Time 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The spelling of "wile" as a verb meaning "to magic," is surprising and produces a neat, unostentatious pun with the implicit "while." Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z Wodehouse isn’t as easy to read aloud as Lardner, but Mr. Lithgow takes a great deal of pleasure in mapping sentences whose verbs are barely in earshot of their subjects. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Trumpery, like the verb to trump, involved some sort of cheating, swindling, hornswoggling, or bamboozlement. Trump really does stand for B.S.: “Trumpery,” an old-fashioned word that’s proving useful today 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The bottle he refers to usually holds “Kokamoe juice,” a healthy pour of vodka that he carries to help loosen those nouns and verbs. Rapper’s delight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z How sinister — how perfectly Smithian — to consider that, when we talk about the idea of love, we describe the supernatural action with a verb as strange as “to fall.” Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z To Ronstadt, singing was a verb, maybe even a calling — not a ticket to fame or fortune. Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Readers with low tolerance for pulp and its attendant verbs might want to look elsewhere. 'Crimes in Southern Indiana': Chewing on ugly 2011-09-07T20:03:04Z His name became a verb, a shorthand for a shameless sensibility that would continue through the O.J. Jerry Springer, American Ringmaster 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z What is the meaning of the words spoken by the elaborately garbed woman who keeps recombining the verbs “see, think, say, hear, remember, forget” in persuasive but bewildering monologues? Boston Ballet Takes On William Forsythe’s ‘Artifact’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But the verb, "to round" has other associations; there's the nautical term, "rounding the cape" and the finishing process of "rounding off" something to a satisfying conclusion. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z The fictional scene uses far more active, interesting verbs, and is designed to evoke emotion in the reader. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z He is the lighting designer, and the man who gives life to pretty much every verb you associate with light, from flicker to blaze. Review: Big Dreams, Bright Ideas in ‘The Light Years’ 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The word thrill arrives from the verb form of an earlier word, thirl — to make a hole, to pierce, to penetrate — with thirl itself tied back to thruh, from which we get through. Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z By the time their journey ended Howard had “amassed a formidable vocabulary of nouns and even a rudimentary stock of verbs.” Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z As Georgia Brown noted in her Village Voice review, “In the trade’s lexicon, the magic verb is to close. When Aaronow” — the sad-sack salesman — “complains he can’t close ‘em anymore, he’s confessing impotence.” ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z His marriage had "failed" – by now I was putting the verb in quotes, as some of my own contemporaries' marriages were already collapsing. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z But isn’t there something insufferable about this tyranny of the verb to be, and the rhetorical recourse, always, to reversal or paradox? The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Top choices were “web” for the 1990s and “Google” as a verb for the 2000s. Sum it up! U.S. linguists to pick 'Word of the Decade' 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z His own writing is invariably clear, his prose tautly built on nouns and verbs. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The verb "to be", as taught by Mary Beard, isn't quite on a par. Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-01T19:59:01Z On top of that — check out those verbs! Review | ‘I Hold A Wolf by the Ears’ offers the greatest distillation of Laura van den Berg’s talents to date 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z One of these spectacular Shakespearean words, “incarnadine,” which has the meaning already when he uses it in “Macbeth” as “red,” he uses it as a verb. The director of Folger Shakespeare Library on inventing words, abusing language 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It seems to me, that we ever regard the to of the infinitive as inseparable from its verb. Grammar lovers split over infinitives 2013-02-08T13:10:54Z The odd stasis of a photo, or an altered image, is—quite like the intransitivity of the verb “to be”—an almost perfect expression of helplessness. Why Do We Change Our Avatars After Tragedy? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Functioning as both a noun and a verb, it admonishes either way: Our life is a gift, value it. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The most resonant verb in her novel is “ask.” ‘Outline,’ Rachel Cusk’s New Novel 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The film introduced me to a new verb, "to Clooney", meaning to remain happily unmarried. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-17T00:06:00Z For many people, I suspect, tickling is a verb, not a world. Review: ‘Tickled,’ Is Fun and Giggles Until It Isn’t Anymore 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Not a mother, and not one to mother, Boulder ends up planting roots in the space between the noun and the verb. She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z You need action verbs to describe what the horse is going through. The Carpetbagger: 'War Horse' Sound Tricks: Otters Stand in for Horses and Other Trade Secrets 2012-01-03T19:51:11Z “Need,” of course, is probably not the right verb in this context. Motherlode Blog: Hot Wheels have gone high-tech. When should we digitize playtime, and when should we just let it be? 2012-02-27T19:25:54Z For some time, the word ripassare made me think only of Italian verbs. Double take: a twice-cooked broccoli recipe direct from Rome 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The word “occult,” which can be used as a noun, an adjective or a verb, signifies something hidden, concealed from common forms of perception. If pulling weeds makes you want to pull your hair out, there’s a simple solution 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z First off, the name Raskolnikov derives from the word "dissenter" by way of the verb "to split". Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z “Oftentimes, we’ll hear things like ‘German sounds’ and ‘French verbs’ and ‘Russian passion.’ Was Yuja Wang’s Concert Satirical or Offensive? It’s Complicated 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In "The Metamorphosis," he describes Gregor crawling along the walls of his room using the verb kriechen, which means "to creep" as well as "to cower." 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z The beautifully-paced last line summarises and completes the imagined scenario, but leaves the poem still in motion, ending as it began, with the present participle of a verb. Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z The problem is that most of the words are the same word, a noun and verb that begins with "F" and ends with "K". Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z In some ways, it seems fated that Letts would write a play infused by politics: He is a man, after all, who frequently uses the word “congress” as a verb. Tracy Letts Can’t Fight With His Playwright 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z As the action gets quicker, sentences get shorter and verbs become stronger. Author John Gilstrap explains what makes a book a thriller 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Tell your unique story with strong action verbs and vocabulary. What Not to Include on Your Resume 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z But the headline addition for most observers will be the new senses for "tweet" as a verb and noun. Oxford English Dictionary adds new sense of tweet to its Big Data 2013-06-20T12:04:39Z To be “handbagged” by Ms. Thatcher even became a verb, well known to rivals, journalists and political bumblers alike who all found themselves ruthlessly dismissed by her when they displeased her. Purse Politics: Tote and Vote 2013-05-31T22:43:24Z Such verbs create a strong sense of forward movement halted. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z I read “Cien Años de Soledad,” conquered Ferdinand and Isabella, and mastered subjunctive verbs. My daughter can’t be average 2012-10-22T01:00:00Z With Greenlights, his love letter to livin, McConaughey attempts to answer these questions and others, such as why he never puts a “g” on the end of “living” – “because life’s a verb”. Zen and the art of torso maintenance: Matthew McConaughey's guide to life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Tesser, by the way is the verb form of “tesseract,” a phenomenon rendered more poetically by the movie’s title. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Take an adjective and make it a verb. The director of Folger Shakespeare Library on inventing words, abusing language 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It is also used as a verb, as evidenced in this passage by one young author: ‘Trump’ Named Children’s Word of the Year. That’s Trumpwinningtastic. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z If you are rich enough to use “summer” as a verb, someone will try to murder you. I Know Where You Lived Last Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In the 2006 documentary “Al Franken: God Spoke,” Mr. Franken, the comedian, activist and future senator from Minnesota, offered a quote that would prove prescient for more than its choice of verb: “Celebrity trumps ideology.” Franken and Trump, Hiding Behind Their ‘Jokes’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Ward tried to come up with a suitably ugly new verb to make a point about neologisms. 10 words "The Simpsons" made famous 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Turns out it also means a firework, or a bang used to signal a warning, or, as a verb, to leave someone trapped and isolated in an inaccessible place, abandoned. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Mary is a mother of two whose sudden death leaves her husband and children struggling to find the order they had previously sought in Latin verbs, video games and fashion design. Every One | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:00:00Z Like Chekhov, whose ghost floats pleasantly through these pages, Shteyngart is a master of verbs. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This demonstrates the fundamental difference between a talk-variety show where the title delineates the host by using a preposition, "with," instead of a transitive verb, i.e, "starring." Leslie Jones blazed brightly on "The Daily Show." But is a star really what its new era needs? 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The showroom carried signs emblazoned with the slogan “Drive and Shop”, a play on words in Arabic, using the female form of the verbs. Saudi women-only motorshow opens in Jeddah 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Whenever I mentioned urging my students to capture the details of the world, he would say, “I hate that verb,” and pull me into another debate about the colonialist roots of travel writing. ‘Crushes Thrive in Small Spaces’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.” Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The word “essay” is rooted in the French verb for “try,” and Mr. Greenman in these pieces seems determined not to try too hard. Review: ‘Emotional Rescue’ Ruminates on Life and Music 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z It was one of Mr. Leonard’s firm beliefs that “said” was the only verb that should be used with quotations. An Appraisal: Elmore Leonard: A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words 2013-08-21T21:31:56Z Picking a wonderfully apt verb, Hughes concludes that Darwin’s theorizing ended by “dislocating the foundations of existence.” Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z That latter word “is a one-dimensional verb. It’s too flat-footed, it doesn’t leave anything to the imagination.” ‘LOVE’ and Other Four-Letter Words 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The softness of "moss-tarnished" steps, connected to the damp, ferny tunnels, contrasts with the crisper clarity of "gurgling" and "leaping", the latter verb both visual and auditory. Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z “Vaguely,” I said, and conjured a man with a mischievous face who ignored me unless he needed help with phrasal verbs. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z For Dr. Clague, it is a testament that “the song is a verb, and citizenship is a verb, and that these are part of a process of identity negotiation.” ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z This is a recently minted verb to describe the process that people in their 20s are now undertaking to finally exit their lengthy childhoods. Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Friends with benefits’ relationship has few benefits 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z He also has a cattle prod that he threatens to use on Cherry every time she uses the word “like” as an interjection instead of a verb. Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z So while nouns are comforting, firm and fixed and solid, it seems to me that verbs are more honest. Maybe the word “rapist” is a problem: The utility of nouns and verbs, or accepting who we are and what we do 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Wetness-dwelling amoeba do not, even with poetic licence for the choice of verb, "breathe air". Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Roomba, made by iRobot, was so dominant early on that it was fast becoming a generic term, sort of like “Hoover,” which is used as a verb in some parts of the world. Robot vacuums have cleaned up their act. Is it time to buy? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Whether using fika as a noun or a verb, implied is that some sort of sweet treat will accompany the coffee. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Other, more frequently employed verbs involve destruction and violence. Video Game Review: Infamous: Second Son Keeps Its Morality Black and White 2014-03-30T21:19:33Z The play's title reflects the meaning of the word "appropriate" in both its adjectival and verb forms. 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “Worked,” however, is the wrong verb: I could hardly turn the pages fast enough. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The show is called `'Ravel Ravel Unravel," a play on the English verb `'to rave" and the composer's name. Prominent pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2013-06-01T06:26:10Z At the premiere, Smith saw his opportunity to thank the woman whose name had become his own inspirational verb. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z He had no time to waste on superfluous adverbs, adjectives or tricky verb forms, and he had no patience for moody interior monologues or lyrical descriptive passages. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Instead of closing the second stanza, he pauses on a semi-colon and repeats the main verb, "arose", at the start of the third, to carry on an extended, sinewy, almost Miltonic sentence. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z The Austrian literary critic Leo Spitzer posited, in the fifties, that the word stemmed “from a certain use of the verb incurrere which, in classical Latin, was used of ‘running into’ ills of any kind.” How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A lanky political animal that climbs atop tables and counters; verb: to fail upward. Perspective | Vogue can make anyone look glamorous, including Pete Buttigieg 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z In fact, Sturm, who is 55 and has lived in Lake Geneva, Wis., for 30 years, prefers snow as a verb. Hollywood's winter weather man 2010-12-30T06:00:00Z Today, our idea of soup is more refined, but the classic combination of stock and bread is embedded in the Latin root of the verb suppāre, meaning "to soak". ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Design is no longer a verb, “to design,” where I might describe the process of how something is made. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z “You can’t — I’m trying so hard not to use ‘hide’ as a verb — but you have to be yourself when you play the music,” he said. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In “The Elements of Style,” Strunk and White prohibit the verb “to contact” and the verb “to finalize.” Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of ‘The Sense of Style’ They called this verb convergence and noun convergence. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: Predicting Bubbles and Crashes 2011-08-02T15:24:39Z “We wondered if that would happen to the verb ‘trump,’” she said. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “It was a huge bugbear in the 1920s and 1930s,” he says of people using it as a verb. 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z One by one, we stumbled and slipped down the trail — learning a new verb, glissading, which basically means “butt-sliding.” I am woman. Watch me snowshoe. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Could the word Kindle soon become a verb, like ‘to hoover’ or ‘to google’? Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon 2012-06-08T10:00:02Z We learned the components of sentences: subjects, verbs, objects, which always went in that order. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z I chose the travel-theme series and spent the next half-hour absorbing a slow build of information, from singular nouns to plural, with new verbs introduced. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Everywhere things are transformed into actions, and nouns become verbs: things spark, things flame, things balloon, and things roll. Fischli and Weiss: the art of humour 2012-06-05T12:03:00Z You could put a gentle reminder in your card that "gift" has been used as a verb since the 16th century, and gift a book about language. Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z Aravena sees it as the irreducible limit of what a chair can be, the moment when the noun "chair" becomes the verb "to sit". When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z The latter word especially irritates a lot of bartenders: “Mock” designates something as fake; the verb refers to the expression of contempt. Forget Dry January. We need better nonalcoholic cocktails every month of the year. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z All grit and guns, cockeyed verbs — and the girls. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Now his name is a verb and a threat. Two years ago, Eric Cantor lost his House seat. Was it just in the nick of time? 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Well you know, we actually have a specific verb in Flemish for sitting on the terrace and having a beer, it literally translates as "doing a terrace". dEUS's Tom Barman: 'I was fed up with singing about myself' 2012-07-04T11:41:37Z I've gone through through unfathomable amounts of sugar, butter, flour and eggs, and I don't know if the verb I'd use for that process is "blazed" or "slogged." My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z The voice is just part of the excitement, with its pyrotechnic verbs. Review | ‘I Hold A Wolf by the Ears’ offers the greatest distillation of Laura van den Berg’s talents to date 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The gritty consonants of the verb and noun register the painful jolt, but then more anaesthetic is applied. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z Jesus hates tolerance almost as much as he hates you!A billboard in the small town of Clyde, North Carolina doesn’t seem to get the difference between verbs and nouns. 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z It can be a verb, something you can do: if you have written a story in which Edward and Jacob from Twilight get together, you have slashed them. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z The series gives the sense of a story unfolding in a special verb tense—first-person plural, viscerally immediate but lyrically retrospective, aching to communicate adolescent truths about imperfection. The Best Television of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The scholar Eleanor Prosser thus detects "considerable evidence" for the elimination of metrical and stylistic "irregularities" in the Folio: short lines are lengthened to 10 syllables, verbs agreed with subjects, double negatives resolved. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Dust, along with the next two words, is a noun turned into a verb meaning either to add or to remove the thing in question. Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z Decorum is observed — grace is said before meals; corsets are tightened; French verbs are conjugated; everyone is called “miss” — but under the surface all kinds of strong emotions seethe and simmer. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Jesse Armstrong writes Greg in such a way that he becomes a concept as well as a character, an inanimate noun and a verb. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z She'll be dead in three weeks but till then, verbs are present tense. When your friend is dying, it's OK to steal her scarves 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Stone is another verb to use with caution. Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z Although the archetypical emblem of an online troll is of a grinning bogeyman, the word can be traced back to the Old French verb troller, meaning to wander around while hunting. The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z At one point, a girl at a petrol station refuses "to talk to anyone who uses the verb to be". Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Assimilating, in this sense, is a verb, a choice, not a bow to the superiority of another culture. Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z And, often, a very lucrative verb, dressing up everything from alternative medicines to anti-aging products. Destination: Wellness 2012-12-28T16:26:19Z “Grinding” is a verb used ostensibly as a compliment, meaning “at least the big schlub is trying,” despite repeatedly scuffling more than a little bit. Perspective | Why limit preposterous understatements to baseball? Imagine the possibilities. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He’s just enough of an etymologist to notice that “beheading” is both a noun and a verb. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z Every headline would be a call to action, with a verb exhorting you — the reader — to learn, to grow, to investigate, to understand, to question. A Farewell From ‘At Home’ 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z The Old English verb raedan lies at the root of “to read” and “to riddle”: To read is to riddle, to riddle is to read. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z No one can seem quite so alive on the page as Plath — “I have become a verb, instead of an adjective,” she sang, with months left to live. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z A popular cookbook is full of “breezy instructions rich in kinetic verbs.” Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It became like this noun, or even a verb. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z And it’s sort of a weird new verb. From bingeing to unpleasant characters to Sharpie fumes, dramatic actors tell all 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Jack leads into it with a long etymology of the verb, which is partly just the way his character would sidle up gingerly to any discussion of love, but also makes a real point. 30 Rock Finale: I Lizzed, I Cried 2013-02-01T02:01:45Z Though he slipped in the occasional French word, he was focused on expressing himself in English, occasionally pausing to ask about verb tenses and using hand gestures when lost for a word. Gad Elmaleh: Talking Funny in French and English 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z You might assume that she uses journal as a verb. It’s Their Wedding, and Their Wedding Planning 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “My dad’s advice was, ‘If a company that’s a verb offers you a job, say yes,’” he recalled. Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In the Czech language, the verb to photograph means to immortalise. Markéta Luskačová's best photograph: Ginger the musician 2012-08-22T15:58:35Z The prose shifts tense queasily from past to present, and Greenfield appears innocent of the rule that a verb must agree in number with its noun. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-11T08:00:00Z "We're still in the verb. Definitely. I just want to keep flyin'. Yeah. It's all approach. It's not a destination. It's all in approach. Best I can figure, you know." Just like Rust never sleeps, McConaughey is wide awake 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Despite the action verb in the book title, this brother and sister are fascinatingly, and often frustratingly, inert. When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Here, we have a noun shifted to a new word as a verb: to adult. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Sharing might not be the best verb to describe the often troubled relationship between the two nations. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Although it was used in the 16th century, in all of Shakespeare’s works “worry” appears just once—as a transitive verb denoting strangling or choking. Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z This time around, the entity that isn’t Skynet will have made — the “Terminator” franchise is murder on verb conjugations — killer robots far worse than the models sent from previous futures. ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Review: It’s Hasta la Vista All Over Again 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Savannah West was 16 when she started “Juul-ing”, a verb often used to describe puffing an e-cigarette of any variety, but in West’s case it meant using the eponymous mint and mango flavored Juul. Juul is the new big tobacco? Wave of lawsuits signal familiar problems 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The slogan plays on the French verb “afficher,” which means “to display” but in its reflexive form, “s’afficher,” means “to show up.” Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In ancient Egyptian writing and art, the image of a scarab, or dung beetle, expressed a whole concept of the afterlife and rebirth and was used in inscriptions as the verb “to become.” Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z SA: I’m a big believer in the power of verbs, Bruised. I’m Grieving My Husband. Do I Need to Grieve My In-Laws, Too? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence, he says, that in his native French as well as in English the verb "to play" or jouer is used when actors take on a part. Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z Change the “p” sound to a “b” sound and you change not only the meaning of the noun but also the meaning of the preceding verb, she explains. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It is also a verb: to act or perform, to strike or challenge, to participate or accompany. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z Most outrageous was won by “second-amendment,” used as a verb, ironically, by gun-control proponents to describe killing someone with a gun. Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Tabloids that ran headlines like “Scary Skinny” or used “balloon” as a verb would be banished, along with reality shows built around the idea that it’s impossible to be both heavy and happy. Motherlode Blog: I Have No Idea How Many Calories Are in My Grandmother’s Gefilte Fish 2014-04-13T14:00:02Z Both men attended English boarding schools suffused with Greek verbs and loneliness and regimented pleasures, their atmospheres so identical that they seemed to have been sliced out of some larger pie of pedagogy. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z “Now, I don’t know if people knew better than to try to approach me like the couch was a verb, because it wasn’t ever a verb for me.” Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z We often say consent is given or gotten, yet using these verbs turns consent into a commodity that uses the same verbs we use for the groceries we buy. Consent Must Be Created, Not Given 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “Love is a verb, it’s not the flu,” he said. Margaret Hoover and John Avlon on their Post-Partisan Marriage 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Another is the rule that “like” joins noun phrases, while “as” or “as if” is for verb phrases. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z “I am part of this,” Ms. Taymor replied, strongly emphasizing the verb. As ?Spider-Man? Opens, Its Former Director Shows Up. And a Former President. 2011-06-15T04:59:22Z That verb right there, the one in quotes, is key. Violent young men, sex and the conversation we should be having now 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The verb in Mulley's title does invite you to complete the sentence, though: "not wisely but too well"? The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z The young man whose site popularized "friend" as a verb was also fond of another f-word. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z “Spinto” — the past participle of the Italian verb spingere, “to push” — describes roles that demand both the silvery fluidity of a lyric singer and the dark power of a dramatic one. Frances Ginsberg, American Soprano, Dies at 55 2010-12-29T04:21:11Z And somehow Abulkasem — as an adjective, an adverb and a verb — becomes part of their daily lingo, a means of describing things both indescribably great and awful. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z Lichens, in other words, “never stop lichenizing; they are verbs as well as nouns.” Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z During the George W. Bush administration, his name became a verb: the press secretary would “Goyal” a press conference by calling on the Indian to divert attention from more uncomfortable issues. There’s the major media. And then there’s the ‘other’ White House press corps. 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Here are some examples: Sentences without verbs It’s obvious that a sentence needs a verb. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z Russian revolution escapee Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a style of painting that was to be the visual signature of the decade; Tallulah Bankhead's name became the very verb to express ebullient provocation. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-09T08:00:01Z Still, in a Leknes home, these vegetables would not be sliced or chopped, they’d be hacked—a Viking verb, å hakke, that always made me think more of Norway’s past than its present. Ode to Norwegian Brown Cheese 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z If most aphorists are addicted to assertion, telling readers what is and is not, there is always the option of shunning the verb to be and its imperious rule. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Should we clarify which instance of "writing" we mean as a noun and which as a verb form, if either? Tracy Kidder and his editor on writing 2013-01-14T18:58:08Z When he talks about teaching writing, he likes to use the word “craft” as a verb. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z If I ever use "progress" or "action" as a transitive verb, please shoot me. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:02Z I would guess it's like the "o" in "rainbow," but I've heard "bow" like the English verb, and the etymology would suggest yet another vowel:. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In “Between,” the very nature of identity is called into question by her avoidance of the verb “to be” in all its forms. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z Oversight is the noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.” Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z Among the many aphoristic sayings in the book, there is one that I remember to this day: “We are born as verbs and not as nouns.” Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z With a thin understanding of verb conjugation, Lovely speaks only in the progressive tense, giving everything she says a sense of continuous immediacy, e.g. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z You can read almost anything into Nostradamus’s verse — he intentionally kept things vague, rarely bothering even with verbs — and over the centuries people have. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z The verb “to gaslight” — to psychologically manipulate a person into questioning her own sanity — derives from this movie, J. Hoberman explained in his 2019 article in The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘House of the Dragon’ and U.S. Gymnastic Championships 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z To tackle the drived/drove question, Mr. Aiden and Mr. Michel assigned two undergraduates to read every textbook on historical English grammar, compile a list of irregular verbs and follow their fortunes through the centuries. Books of The Times: ‘Uncharted,’ by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel 2013-12-24T20:44:07Z The "winter boughs" call up no obtrusively eloquent metaphor, no effortful adjectives or verbs: they are simply "spidery" and "twitched in a breeze". Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z The Olympics offered up finalists including the verb "to medal," "Games Maker" - the name given to thousands of Olympic volunteers - and distance runner Mo Farah's victory dance, "the Mobot." Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z “Happening” qualifies as both an adjective and a verb in this instance. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z This emphasis on active verbs turns out to be an excellent device, recreating how it feels to be fully absorbed in physical activity, the mind, that often unwieldy "organ", streamlined into unity with the body. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Sentences of this type are presenting the existence of a condition, and any verb used would be an empty placeholder just to fill a syntactic role. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z Pennebaker is admirably omnivorous when it comes to looking for material that will show how these stealthy words — which include articles, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs — reflect our social psyche. ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns 2011-08-29T14:30:32Z Just sturdy verbs, a casual flowing power, tantric masculine reticence, a melancholy sense of a sidewise-drifting life, little humor. Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of talk like this near the end of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” — pre-grieving along with an awkward mix of verb tenses. Review | John McCain reports for duty in his own heroically touching HBO tribute 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Apparently sheened is the new verb,” wrote a poster on Twitter, where Mr. Sheen now has more than 1.5 million followers. Noticed: When Your Life Becomes a Verb 2011-03-04T19:11:40Z For the duration of this article, we are going be using “feminist” as a transitive verb. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “He synthesized so much that was rumbling around loosely my mind,” said Miller, who was struck by Fuller’s remark that “I am not a noun, I seem to be a verb.” George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z That includes a certain amount of manhandling, if I may use so sexist a verb. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z In the 1970s, the term “to parent” emerged as an active verb. Raising Kids Isn’t Easy. Parenting Advice Often Makes It Harder. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The real subject was not the object but the motion, not the noun but the verb: trotting, running, walking, leaping. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z It acknowledges that most things we're told are stable states – peace, equality, justice, happiness – are really verbs and processes, and they must be maintained and supported or they fade. Nick Harkaway takes Kitschies Red Tentacle award 2013-02-27T18:20:01Z “Batter,” as a verb, is used both frivolously and seriously. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The way we talk about the snow—mostly in passive verbs—expresses the general feeling of impotence and powerlessness produced by the current weather pattern. Following the Record Snow in Boston 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z I was totally brave and not a lost, pretentious, too-young idiot who didn’t understand anything in the news or in the verb charts — not at all. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Their schedules may also include language courses, where conjugating verbs and learning proper syntax, for example, can’t be considered an ideological task. We don’t need to “rethink college” — we need to rethink the arguments against it 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z That the main verb, "reminds," is used intransitively compounds the feeling of dislocation. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The being of God is better understood as a verb than a noun. Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God 2012-02-13T15:24:07Z If you were to turn “Taipei” into a word cloud, here’s what you’d end up with: adjectives like “stranded,” “disengaged” and “fetal”; verbs like “dispersed” and “cringing”; past participles like “alienated,” “muffled,” “depleted” and “doomed.” Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z “I never knew that the couch was a verb. I’d heard the phrase, but I thought that was something from the 1950s.” The Diane Lane Thing is deep and it’s real. Especially with women. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “Rebecca reached for her tea, careful not to spook the sleeping baby. Was spook racist when a verb as it was when a noun?” Review | A mother of two boys — one white, one black — gets a crash course in race 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And I’m getting more comfortable forming hypothetical phrases and causative verbs aloud. Stuck stateside needn’t mean you can’t chat with foreign locals — and improve your language skills 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z What she doesn’t mention is that math isn’t a verb. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The showroom carried signs emblazoned with the slogan “Drive and Shop”, a play on words in Arabic, using the female form of the verbs. Saudi women-only motorshow opens in Jeddah 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z A gentler, less coercive verb that "make" in English, associated with "settle" and "sit", it helps the reader picture the scene. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z It sort of debunks the romantic idea of love as something we acquire and shows it instead as a faculty we can develop – as a verb rather than a noun. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z "A good read" is now considered the highest recommendation, though the phrase is entirely non-descriptive and reduces a once purposive and active verb to a meek and passive noun. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z The most useful category was won by “even,” used on its own as a verb to refer to the failure to master difficult situations or emotions, as in “I can’t even.” Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z "I want to rethink surrender as an active verb," he says. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z There are helixes of thought that coil down the page, fields of white space, columns of present progressive verbs, calligrams, all-caps sentences and bracketed exclamations. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z And only now do I see yet another aspect of the novel’s English title: “Human Acts,” the tacit verb suggesting that, in the end, perhaps our actions are what matter. The Author of ‘The Vegetarian’ Takes on Korea’s Violent Past 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “He watched,” Ms. Marshall recalled on Thursday, emphasizing the verb. Miroslav Ondricek, Oscar-Nominated Czech Cinematographer, Is Dead at 80 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Over time, Camino becomes a noun, verb and state of mind. ‘Walking the Camino,’ a Documentary by Lydia B. Smith 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z I want him looking for his glasses, trying not to come, doing the dumb verb of journaling, getting spinach caught between canine and gum, berating my logorrhea, or my not staying mum. David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z He vomited when he got up, he has vomited after sex, he vomits looking for alcohol, he will vomit while drinking — he’s a full conjugation of the verb “to vomit.” Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Think of the verb “to alternate”: “to perform by turns or in succession.” A Small Point of Usage Concerning Those “Alternative Facts” 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z The English “were” is the runt of the subjunctive litter, used on just one verb, just some of the time, and not by everyone. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Did you know that the Spanish have two verbs for "to be"? Chris Weitz: once upon a time in East LA 2011-07-28T20:55:01Z That verb may sound harsh, but it's the right one. Mobility Plan 2035 may be the cornerstone of a new L.A. 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Almanac, rarely used as a verb, is apt here. The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But if I have to use the verb, that’s what distinguishes fathering from mothering. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z Auxiliary verbs are dropped, words are misspelled, prepositions are jostled, all to create a sense of vernacular authenticity. Family, Home and Heartbreak in Three Debuts 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z We will the seas incarnadine.He takes a color and now uses it as a verb to talk about what happens to the sea as a result of guilt. The director of Folger Shakespeare Library on inventing words, abusing language 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z This doesn’t exhaust the set of acceptable sentences without verbs, either. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z The verb “to troll,” for example, initially meant “to provoke someone online purely for amusement’s sake”; now it means “to write anything that can possibly be taken the wrong way.” RIP “mansplaining”: How the Internet killed one of our most useful words 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Once during a phone call, he used “Leonard Woolf” — the name of Virginia Woolf’s famously nurturing husband — as a verb. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z But often such words carry real weight: “the suitors sauntered in,” for instance, where the verb perfectly captures this crew of dapper sociopaths. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In the last stanza, though, Housman rhymes three intransitive verbs – "nighs", "sighs", "replies". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z A guy my age with a single, respectable head shot messaged “Good morning” — no verb, no punctuation, but hey, it was saliva-free. I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z As a teenager, I’d snap, “Ma, I hate when you use ‘dirty’ as a verb.” The Best of Tiny Love Stories 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z In Hoang’s world, cubing is a verb and a calming practice. A romance novelist struggled with Asperger’s. Now she writes about love on the spectrum. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. Obituary: Elmore Leonard 2013-08-20T16:58:10Z Yet it’s also impossible to resist a movie that uses “Legally Blonde” as a verb and in which two men adorably bond over Alice Munro short stories. ‘Fire Island’ Review: Oh, the Summer Nights 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z One slightly less endearing feature of Dunthorne's contemporary voice, however, is his strict avoidance of the present participle when using the verbs "to stand" or "to sit". Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z One of the reasons our marriage survived and often prospers is that we have usually treated 'love' as a verb. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s an easy way to try this at work—deemphasize verbs. How to Get Ahead by Speaking Vaguely 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Something you learn rearing kids in this young millennium is that the word “Disney” works as a verb. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z Yankovic commits a couple of his own crimes — as in “Here’s some notes,” which should be “Here are some notes,” for the subject to agree with the verb — and quite a few rhyme crimes. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Taylor stutters for 10 seconds, searching for the verb, thinking of the science of rhyme, the algebra of harmony, the way his songs tell stories and stir nameless feelings. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z As it always does, incidentally, for all those other verbs. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z At the same time, it’s evolving into a kind of sexual detective story, with Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan prepping to investigate a series of carnal mysteries: it’s Bones, but as a verb. Plateau Stage: Masters of Sex Figures Itself Out 2013-11-04T13:45:39Z The first definition of “design” in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1548, as a verb meaning to “indicate” or “designate.” Design: Can Anybody Be a Designer? 2011-10-02T12:45:08Z As such, the insights here are deep but never shattering, as when Roya perceives the crucial distinction between the verbs “visit” and “live” in one of her son’s messages. Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The original meaning of the verb “to burlesque” was “to make fun of.” Not Just Strippers: Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Burlesque 2013-06-04T09:45:33Z Many writers employ unusual verbs and adjectives; Ms. Proulx likes weird nouns. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z The righteous call now is to diversify what ensembles play, in all senses of the verb. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z And yes, when we're talking about summer produce, "salad" is a verb. Summer salad ideas perfect for your farmers’ market haul 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z New verbs entered the surf lexicon: shred, tear, lacerate. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z I’ve always preferred a more prosaic phrase: Movies that mess with your mind, using another verb in place of “mess.” “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z But he doesn’t drop nearly enough of those gems to make up for his annoying habits — his abuse of “groove” as a verb, for starters. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll” The verb is defined as "to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device." Oxford chooses 'vape' as its 2014 Word of the Year 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z In this light, “crush” becomes an active verb, something girls do; they crush standards, social ideals, their own former notions of themselves. We never escape teenage crushes: The Beatles, One Direction and what our early obsessions teach us about love 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Step two: Keep your child alive and happy using this specific set of verbs. Watch Jeff Goldblum Show Off His Foolproof Parenting Skills 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The buzzwords on Part I of that list include such innocuous verbs and adjectives as “challenge,” “confront,” “explore,” and “quirky.” Ayn Rand’s wacky art theory 2012-09-20T20:43:00Z “Affect” is a verb, and “effect” is a noun—except when it’s the other way around. Comma Queen: Affect vs. Effect 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It seemed like magic, this ability to move effortlessly in two worlds without ever conjugating a verb or memorizing a vocabulary list. “You’re raising your kids bilingual, right?” Well, no … 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z It was a genuine example of homemaking as a verb — a creative act that reifies the idea of “home.” Critical Shopper: A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home 2011-01-19T23:48:52Z A Valentine for One, a Mother’s Day Card for Another “Adore” sounds like a brand of perfume or a Manhattan restaurant that opened during the stand-alone verb craze a few years back. Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z Over the years, his endeavor lands David in a psychiatric institution; turns his wife, Betty, into a weight-battling addict of processed foods; causes his son to stop using verbs; and makes his daughter go vegan. Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Italics are used liberally, and verb tenses jump all over the place. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z His sentences are frequently in the passive voice; his verbs eschew the pursuit of energy. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z These days, the word sounds archaic any way you say it: Most people use forbid as a past or present-tense verb. Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z And how superbly he manages it – the Altdorfer-like invocations of battle, the gradual combustions, the Germanic delay of that last vital verb until, at last, it is reached and the whole slow scene subsides. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Additionally, the verb we place in front of sexual consent reinforces this narrow understanding of it. Consent Must Be Created, Not Given 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It's not a coincidence that the verb sitting at the heart of the noun of the main government is 'conserve.' Does this government fear the arts and artists? 2011-01-31T18:01:00Z His count, using methodology that includes every version of the word — whether verb, adjective, or Quaalude-induced — adds up to 544, while a colleague determined that there were fewer, but still plenty. The Carpetbagger: Really Counting the Epithets in ‘Wolf’ 2014-01-30T15:30:06Z And we’re given fascinating glimpses of social history, including a list of words first coined around 1922 — among them, the first use of “partied” as a verb. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z Typically, each key noun and verb in that sentence has brought a modifying friend along. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z Every verb and pause had had the feeling of careful, precise stage management. When Politicians Make Playlists 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The word “raptor” derives from the Latin verb “rapiō,” meaning “to seize.” Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z This film is based on the 2005 One Shot, written in a sawn-off post-Hemingway style that dispenses with verbs wherever possible. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-30T00:08:01Z Ms. Collins wrote in longhand on white printer paper or yellow legal pads, her output suggesting that she did not agonize over each noun and verb. Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood’s Glamorous Side, Dies at 77 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z |
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