Sentence examples for verb from from inspiring English sources
"Verb from Popeye" is a great clue for YAM, as in "I yam what I yam".
In 1928, the advice was: "Split infinitives should be avoided – that is, the separation of the verb from its preposition.
chancer A verb from American English meaning "to tax" OK, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary – but do you know what 'cis' means?
One encounters applicants, smart as paint, with four As at A-level, who wouldn't know a noun from a ninepin or a verb from a vole.
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.
But Richard Bean's smart play is crammed with eccentric entertainment, and I was potted (can this be the verb?) from the first.
Others create verbs from nouns.
Removing all the verbs from a language and retaining the meaning of a sentence can be very challenging, she admits.
They seem to be taking refuge in inarticularcy, but at least they fly a vew verbs from their mastheads.
We're more likely to hear about using nouns as verbs – structure a lesson, impact a discussion – or making new verbs from nouns, such as liaise.
In the translating process, he enriched the Hebrew language through the borrowing of Arabic words and the adoption of the Arabic practice of forming verbs from substantives.
