A
Verb is a composite significant sound, marking time, in which, as in the noun, no part is in itself significant.
You observe how far that
verb is from the reader's base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put their
verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the
verb at all.
But the
verb, the
verb," obstinately insisted Pelisson.
The subjunctive mood, past perfect tense of the
verb `to know.
what stress the worthy man had laid on the
verb "float
He assured me "that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and
verbs, and other parts of speech.
There were errors of orthography, there were foreign idioms, there were some faults of construction, there were
verbs irregular transformed into
verbs regular; it was mostly made up, as the above example shows, of short and somewhat rude sentences, and the style stood in great need of polish and sustained dignity; yet such as it was, I had hitherto seen nothing like it in the course of my professorial experience.
My father had the contempt of familiarity with it, having himself written a very brief sketch of our accidence, and he seems to have let me plunge into the sea of Spanish
verbs and adverbs, nouns and pronouns, and all the rest, when as yet I could not confidently call them by name, with the serene belief that if I did not swim I would still somehow get ashore without sinking.
The snubbings and toothaches and the Latin
verbs are all forgotten--the Latin
verbs especially.
They've a temper, some of them-- particularly
verbs, they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not
verbs--however, I can manage the whole lot of them
He - probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant - relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary
verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, - a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
I have been thinking some of taking a teacher, but I am well acquainted with the grammar already, and teachers always keep you bothering over the
verbs.
