verbs
Example Sentences
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"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
They focused on how frequently mental verbs such as "learns," "means," and "knows" were used alongside terms like AI and ChatGPT.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Similarly, the allegedly unsplittable verb will execute is not a verb at all but two verbs, the auxiliary verb will and the main verb execute.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
