"You have to push yourself and your own merits no matter what your background, [and clothes] maketh the man," he once said, being both commendably honest about his modus operandi as well as employing a far too rare archaic verb construction.
Act., to accustom, habituate, train (very rare in finite verb): ut lectos viros... disciplinae et imperiis suesceret, Tac. A. 2, 52.
Yet this rare inability to transform verbs from their present to past tenses is not a question of stupidity, obvious though the answer may seem to most of us.
Interrogative verb inflection: Why rare, though easily grammaticalised?
For instance, the common expression "Fuck you!" is the rare sentence in which the verb has no subject.
Halliday (2004) and Baker (1992) discuss some rare cases in English where verbs can occur initially as marked Themes in declarative clauses.
Still, Pendergraph's operative verb "disappear" is a rare acknowledgement of "illegal" people.
In the other Indo-European languages, apart from rare exceptions in Scandinavian languages, nouns and verbs are never identical because of the necessity of separate noun and verb endings.
Prefixes and suffixes are relatively rare, and the plurality of nouns and verb tenses is usually indicated by the syntax of a statement.
Photoshop attained the rare status of a product that became a verb — like Google and Xerox.
Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure.
