Sentence examples for one verb from inspiring English sources

The wordlist, which contains only one verb (cherish) which is not also a noun, emerged after the council asked more than 7,000 learners in 46 countries what they considered the most beautiful words in English language.

"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.

Tell me one verb pattern for say, tell and ask.

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.

As seen in the photo below (with the example "to eat"), most Romanic languages can have 50 or more different ways to conjugate one verb.

For instance, the sentences describing the by- and from-locative movements for gender-like category II would be identical if only one verb had been used.

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.

He wrote a series of poems on grammar, for which he was a stickler, including one on auxiliary verbs.

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

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

The morphology of the Altaic languages is simple, exhibiting little if any irregularity (e.g., Turkish has only one irregular verb, 'to be') or suppletion (as in English went as the past form of go) and no distinct classes of noun or verb stems ("declensions" and "conjugations") that require special sets of endings.