Sentence examples for proper verb from inspiring English sources

The proper verb in all these cases is "evolve".

Just a few decades ago, parenting wasn't even a proper verb or gerund.

So the proper verb isn't "saving," it's "shifting" — from costs incurred during hospitalization to those that pile up afterward.

Training can sometimes mean telling the Army you're working with not to engage in abuses; the proper verb, then, might be restraining, which some have argued is America's proper job when it comes to Iraq, and why we ought to have left a residual force there.

"The biggest thing people tend to forget was collusion, and that was $280 million that the owners stole — and that is the proper verb — from the players, and he retrieved the money for the union," Fay Vincent said after Fehr announced Monday that he would resign his position by March 31 of next year.

It is a curious but telling aspect of Havel's well-known saying, from its inspirations in Jan Hus ('Truth prevails'), that it was seldom clear whether the proper verb modality here was the indicative or imperative: 'prevails' or 'must prevail.' While the moral tenor seems rather obvious, it is formally ambiguous whether Havel is making a descriptive or normative claim.

In C2, considering the candidates of C1, the authors preserved only the unigrams that occur in noun or prepositional phrases and also follow some of these POS: nouns, proper nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

And questions or hypotheses framed by historians, without which archives would remain mute, lead them to detect "facts, capable of being asserted in singular, discrete propositions, most often having to do with the mentioning of dates, places, proper names, verbs that name an action or state" (Memory, History, Forgetting, 178).

"I'm typically one who is reluctant to make proper nouns into verbs," he said.

The French are particularly fond of turning proper nouns into verbs, often reflexive ones.

As usual, nouns are by far the most common part of speech, followed by punctuation signs, verbs, proper names, and prepositions.