Words similar to verb
Example sentences for: verb
How can you use “verb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The verb to bobbitt , with its well-known specific connotation under the household-amputation rubric, has become so widely used as to have now acquired metaphoric senses.
The numbers in the above sentence indicate the beginning of each phrase and subordinate clause-- (1) adverb clause: “When people who swing want to see what's happening” modifies the verb try in the main clause; (2) adjective clause: “who swing” modifies the noun people ; (3) infinitive phrase: “to see what's happening” acts as the direct object of the verb want ; (4) noun clause: “what's happening” acts as the direct objective of the infinitive “to see”; (5) gerund phrase: “attending parties given by hipsters” acts as the direct object of the verb try ; (6) participial phrase: “given by hipster” modifies the noun parties ; (7) perpositional phrase: “by hipsters” modifies the passive participle given . In subsequent sentences I shall provide numbers but leave the reader to identify the structures, which will appear in varying orders, so as to avoide cluttering the discussion with labyrinthine explanations like this one.
Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.
It also works as a verb, when the chief hatchetman reports, after a busy day: Great news, boss.
Frequently used verbs found in dictionaries are usually written with lower-case letters ( boycott, bowdlerize, hoover ), the name behind the verb being almost insignificant.
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