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:
Another offense is using verbs as nouns.
What about verbs such as boycott, hoover, gerrymander, pasteurize (all based on personal names, though all usually written with a small letter).
Through the easy and logical expedient of converting nouns to verbs, our linguistic forebears established a tradition that has continued through every age.
On the one hand, Pepys's English may seem slightly stilted or Biblical by modern standards, with frequent absolute constructions and the use of do as an auxiliary for affirmative verbs where no emphasis is intended, as, for example, in his entry for August 31, 1662, where he thanks “Almighty God, who doth most manifestly bless me in my endeavors to do the duty of my office--I now saving money, and my expenses being very little.”
If we have proper nouns and proper adjectives, can we not have proper verbs, too?
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