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:
Personal names probably constitute the largest category of name-based verbs.
Once again, as far as these verbs are concerned, the answer would seem to lie in the lack of an initial capital letter and the fact that they refer to something very much removed from the naine itself.
They have trouble creating the plurals of words and forming verbs in the past tense--things most 4-year-olds can easily manage.
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
More numerous are those transformed by first-syllable stress from verbs to nouns or, less commonly, to adjectives.