verbs
Example Sentences
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The study also showed that not all uses of mental verbs are equal.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 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
Gorsuch argues that Congress used present-tense verbs in one sliver of the ADA, which implies that Congress was only protecting people who were actively seeking or holding a job, not retirees.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025
But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
