Verb Usage Quotes

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

In English every word can be verbed.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.