Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

American Editor

Mark Pincus

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

American Businessman

Margaret Trudeau

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

Canadian Author

Janet Fitch

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

American Author

Iman

I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

Somali Model

John Wesley Powell

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

American Explorer

Bertha von Suttner

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Austrian Novelist

Meg Whitman

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

American Businesswoman

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

British Musician

G-Dragon

South Korean Musician

Verbs make the action in a sentence clear, showing who is doing what.

Action Clarity

Verbs change form to match the subject and the time the action occurs.

Verbs Change

Some verbs describe a state of being, not an action.

Expressing States

Verbs can convey the existence of something or someone.

Verbs and Existence

In academic contexts, understanding verb types enhances clarity and precision.

Academic Writing

Active verbs show an action done by the subject; passive verbs show an action received by the subject.

Active vs. Passive

 will show you subject, object, verb, placement of indirect, direct objects, gender and so forth. From that point, you can then, if you want to, acquire multiple languages, alternate them so there is no interference. We can talk about that if anyone in interested. And now I love languages. So ballroom dancing, implicit versus explicit -- very important.

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 appear nearly nude in public he's the first celebrity to have descriptions of his shows be more important than his shows Houdini's in the dictionary you know to pull a Houdini needs to disappear you become a verb and if we walked out on the street right now if

The History of Magic PIPE...

 The waters of poetry run wide and deep. Poetry has evolved over time, and perhaps now more than ever, the line between poetry, prose, song, and visual art has blurred. However, one thing has not changed. The word poetry actually began in verb form,

What makes a poem … a...

 prefixes that are followed by a noun a verb or even a phrase that contains the most striking feature of the plant is behavior its physical characteristics its that even a legend associated with this flower and this is my favorite

The ecological knowledge...

 I call them zombie nouns, because they consume the living. They cannibalize active verbs, they suck the lifeblood from adjectives, and they substitute abstract entities for human beings. Here's an example.

Beware of nominalizations...

 that I've worried about for quite some time -- and indulge me in my passion for verbs and how they're used. The problem is, which verbs go in which constructions? The verb is the chassis of the sentence.

Steven Pinker: What our...

 a verb it faces the same dilemma as any other mother how much to mollycoddle her infant or let it loose to make its own mistakes but at least these rare open patches of green like the golf course

These Adorable Baby...

 is loving one's country, loving one's humanity, loving one's relatives and family and friends, and certainly loving oneself. And I consider love to be a verb. I consider love to be,

The difference between...

 That's as old as it gets, I'm afraid. But a wonderful guy he was, wonderful philosopher. He used to talk about the difference between the task and achievement senses of verbs.

How to escape...

 What is love? Seriously, though, what is it? What is love? A verb? A noun? A universal truth? An ideal?

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