verbs
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Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
"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
She renders the fearless quality of Gehry’s work in vivid verbs, pointing out that if Wright “broke open the box in his Prairie homes, Frank Gehry has ruptured the building-as-box completely—destroyed it in fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
I do my homework— choose five verbs and conjugate them.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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