A small class of verbs (about equal to the number of irregular verbs in English) retain the more primitive personal endings (e.
It is a principle in Greek, as in other languages, that a certain relation must hold between theverbs of dependent clauses and those of the independent clauses on which they are based.
In verbs as in noun the dual is less frequent in later Greek.
The snubbings and toothaches and the Latin verbs are all forgotten--the Latin verbs especially.
In these parallel texts two distinct verbsare rendered by the one English word "provoke.
There is no repetition in the threeverbs employed, which are alike extended by the Greek preposition with (syn).
You put always in front of all verbs except the twenty-three exceptional verb-forms for the very reason for which the African native puts the right tone on the right syllable in the right case.
In the grammar of Mrs Merdle's verbs on this momentous subject, there was only one mood, the Imperative; and that Mood had only one Tense, the Present.
Mrs Merdle's verbs were so pressingly presented to Mr Merdle to conjugate, that his sluggish blood and his long coat-cuffs became quite agitated.
The most interesting fact which developed was an apparently slower rate of forgetting, in many cases, of the nouns and verbs than of the objects and movements.
The verbs were similar to the verbs of the couplet series.
And the further question arises: what are the facts in the case of movements instead of objects, and correspondingly in that of verbs instead of nouns.
For lack of monosyllabic English words the verbs and movements were dissyllabic words.
The summary also shows that when body movements and verbs are coupled each with a foreign symbol, five of the six subjects recall actual movements better than images of movements, while one subject, M, shows no preference.
As familiar material, nouns, objects, verbs and movements were used.
The exposure for the verbs and movements was 5 secs.
There was a tendency in the verb series among most of the subjects to make a more or less connected story of the verbs and thus some subjects could retain all ten words for two days.
Verbs have two numbers, the singular and the plural.
Verbs are of three kinds, active, passive, and neuter.
Verbs have two participles, the present and the perfect.
Verbs have six tenses, the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first and second future tenses.
Irregular verbs and exceptions of gender seemed much worse when taken in such large doses.
Ven I take yourverbs I forget it is so late," she would remark.
FN#241] In text "Irham turham:" this is one of the few passive verbs still used in popular parlance.
The dative "la-hum," generally employed with verbsof prayer, seems to favour this interpretation.
Servants have as little need of French verbs and hieroglyphics as the ploughboy or the dairymaid.
There should be no such thing as instruction, in the sense which implies the cramming of the brain with information, or such mental gymnastics as conjugating irregular verbs and hunting for the least common multiple.
Now, nouns denote facts, while verbs express action, and action, as considered in human speech, is mostly of human origin.
The question of verbs leads us to another matter bearing on the subject of impersonality; namely, the arrangement of the words in a Japanese sentence.
On the same general plan, the nouns precede the verbs in the sentence, and are in every way the more important parts of speech.
The consequence is that in ordinary conversation the verbscome so late in the day that they not infrequently get left out altogether.
We have used the English verbs in their technical sense as indicated by the context.
No, her untutored thoughts she did not give To such a theme; but in their warp and weft She wove a prayer: then in the midnight deep Faintly and slow she fell away to sleep.
The verbs tie and fasten are scarcely used in the figurative sense, tho, using the noun, we speak of the ties of affection.
What is the difference in method involved in the verbs cancel, efface, erase, expunge, and obliterate?
Other transitive verbs are combining the two inflections just described.
The personal pronoun appears in different forms: subjective absolute; subjective prefixed to verbs and objective pronoun.
The majority of the adjectives and of the attributive verbs derived from them form derivatives, which in some instances may be called distributive, in others frequentative and iterative forms.
Intransitive verbs show special forms, according to the number of the subject (singular, dual, plural).
Gradation of adjectives and of attributive verbs formed from these can be effected in different ways, which are more perfect and expressive here than in those Indian languages which can express gradation only by syntactic means.
Other verbsalso sometimes have a past indicative apodosis, usually an imperfect or pluperfect, to denote an action very near to actual performance, which is interrupted by the action of the protasis.
These verbs sometimes have a sentence or a neuter pronoun as subject: as, #nōn tē haec pudent?
The subjunctive with #ut# or #nē# is used in clauses which serve to complete the sense of verbs of will or aim.
The dative is also used with a fewverbs of considering or accounting to denote what a thing is accounted.
She felt with growing irritation that she should have learned genders and verbs earlier in life, and she surprised her expectant teachers with poorer and poorer recitations.
Within ten seconds he was so tangled up in a maze of mutilated verbs and torn and bleeding forms of speech that no human ingenuity could ever have gotten him out of it with credit.
Perhaps you had better not begin till I see whether you know enough about those verbs and nouns to do the thing decently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
