I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said'. . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.
I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.
Life is a verb, not a noun.
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Love is a verb and verbs show action
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.