Sentence examples for the verb from from inspiring English sources

Incorrect: The toys we took to the sleep over were: army men, hot wheels, and Barbie dolls.(The colon separates the verb from its complement).

In 1928, the advice was: "Split infinitives should be avoided – that is, the separation of the verb from its preposition.

But Richard Bean's smart play is crammed with eccentric entertainment, and I was potted (can this be the verb?) from the first.

Word order in the Slavic languages is characterized by a gradual shift of the verb from the beginning to the middle of the sentence (subject verb object).

As The Times's stylebook says, the time element would normally go after the verb, but not if that would sever the verb from its object.

One advantage of this style of representation is that it absolves the writer of the interpretive rules from the vexing task of distinguishing verb complements, to be incorporated into the argument structure of the verb, from adjuncts, to be used to add modifying information.

Removing all the verbs from a language and retaining the meaning of a sentence can be very challenging, she admits.

For the purpose of this model, we extract only the adjectives, nouns and the verbs from the tagged sentence by eliminating the stop words from the query.

The features (namely, relation words) were compiled, as follows: 1) we extract the verbs from the corpus, 2) compute the frequencies of all verbs, 3) and choose top-k frequent words and manually screen the list to eliminate inappropriate words.

The ancient verb, from the Latin recusare, "to reject," is listed in the O.E.D. as "rare," in an entry written a century ago.

The word geyser comes from Geysir, the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur, Iceland; that name, in turn, comes from the Icelandic verb geysa, "to gush", the verb itself from Old Norse.