Sentence examples for One verb from inspiring English sources

One verb I've heard tossed around when describing Mean Streak is 'boring,' which I find appropriate.

English has kept the alternation in only one verb: singular was, plural were.

The culprit: one verb, forming a permissive clause in Amharic and a mandatory one in Italian.

"It's the anti-sport sport, because even though it's very athletic, it has none of that big sports culture," said Aja Gair, a paralegal who skates under a name so sprawling that it is just about one verb short of an op-ed essay: Barbara Ambush Mother of All Your Problems.

Its restatement is not the substitution of one noun for another or one verb for another.

If there is only one verb in the clause, the analysis proves relatively simple; however, when more than one verb appears in a clause, as in (58a), each of the aforementioned Transitivity models opts to analyse a different verb.

One strong verb steamrolls any three weak ones.

If there is a problem with the ad about ballot access, it is one of verb tense.

But there is one little verb that's inexcusable, wherever you are, whatever you're reading this summer.

Clauses 21.1 21.3 are doing material clauses, with Processes realized by only one lexical verb 'make'make

Perhaps Nintendo should not have worried so much about backwards compatibility (does anyone use their Wii Fit any more?) and instead focused on one core verb to define the new system.