Words similar to verbs
Example sentences for: verbs
How can you use “verbs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
They have trouble creating the plurals of words and forming verbs in the past tense--things most 4-year-olds can easily manage.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.
In the realm of newances are also a series of verbs: call , from shouting to telephoning; see , from in the flesh to virtual image; fly , from avian to human; and drive , applied slightly differently to each new vehicle developed.
Also, the alphabetical order might prove a bit off-putting for some, for phrasal verbs are set flush left with a hanging indention (like headwords) immediately after the main verb: for instance, take , which has fifteen main entries of its own (for reasons we shall get to), is followed by headword-style entries for take after, take against , etc., through take up with ; it is only then that one reaches the entry for takeaway .
If we have proper nouns and proper adjectives, can we not have proper verbs, too?
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