Sentence examples for verb this from inspiring English sources

After thinking about this, she asked, "Have you noticed that out in the country 'neighbor' is a verb?" This struck Briggs as a sudden move away from intimacy.

First some disclaimers: despite its classic line, "Hitch: is that a noun or a verb?", this film is not a treatise on grammar.

An attributive adjective comes, usually, before the noun and modifies it without an intervening verb ("a delicious stew"); a predicative adjective forms the predicate of the sentence, after a verb ("This stew is delicious").

In "He's a Quarterback, He's a Winner, He's a TV Draw, He's a Verb" (This Land column, front page, Jan . 14, Dan Barry writes about a 2010 Super Bowl commercial telling how Tim Tebow's mother decided not to end a life-threatening pregnancy and he adds, "There was no tebowing that week in the halls of Planned Parenthood".

When a sequence is realized as something other than a clause complex, or a process as something other than a verb, this is metaphorical.

When a sequence is realized as a clause complex, or a process as a verb, this is congruent: it is the clause complex, and the verb, in the function in which it evolved.

From this we can see that if the strict syntactic rules were followed and the Verbal classification was selected for each of these performative verbs, this would necessarily affect the interpretation of the entire clause.

As we used a positive list of relevant verbs, this reduction regarding the number of generated PASs would help to reduce the amount of data to be managed but would not improve the accuracy of the proposed approach.

There ought to be a verb for this kind of involuntary donation.

The stylebook advises against using "sanction" as a verb in this sense.

"Then I wonder, 'Is there even a verb in this sentence?' " Once inside, Sir Ian peered through rimless eyeglasses at a complicated tasting menu that seemed to unnerve him and his party.