I want to change the verb.

It's not a noun. It's a verb.

I mean, we use TiVo as verb.

So a tempting generalization for a child, for an adult, for a computer is that any verb that can appear in the construction, subject verb thing to a recipient can also be expressed as subject verb recipient thing.

I want us all to change the verb.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb.

The verb is the chassis of the sentence.

Why would we use that verb, it doesn't feel right?

This verb is normally used only in the third person.

An intransitive verb, such as dine, for example, can't take a direct object.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion.

And if there is a verb that comes with desire, it is to want.

So if there is a verb, for me, that comes with love, it's to have.

I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

For example, you can use the verb go and the prepositions to and from in a literal, spatial sense.

The Latin word cogito is derived from the prefix co, meaning together, and the verb agitare, meaning to shake.

Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.

If we teach girls to change the verb we will actually enforce the girl inside us and the girl inside them.

In the 18th century, it became a verb, and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone.

A transitive verb mandates that there has to be an object there Sam devoured the pizza. You can't just say, Sam devoured.

Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb.

And what I want to suggest is that, having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called I Am an Emotional Creature The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, I've been talking to girls for five years, and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere is that the verb that's been enforced on girl is the verb to please.

So which verbs go in which construction the problem with which I began depends on whether the verb specifies a kind of motion or a kind of possession change.

Calderón s contradictory stance is rooted in the reflexive habits of a Mexican political class trained to gain points by kicking the US. Calderón, too, has sought refuge behind the folds of the Mexican flag and in diatribes about sovereignty under siege.

Probably, according to what many linguists believe, fully modern language, syntactic language subject, verb, object that we use to convey complex ideas, like I'm doing now, appeared around that time.

Using hold in this way is both completely conventional and deeply misleading. In any other common English language usage, hold is an active verb or a noun with a similar connotation.

That is, an increase in the willingness to lend tends to increase the value of the collateral, and also improves the borrowers performance, thereby encouraging a relaxation of credit criteria. Bubbles recur, especially in real estate, because this reflexive relationship is repeatedly ignored.

Having a native speaker allow you to deconstruct their grammar, by translating these sentences into past, present, future, will show you subject, object, verb, placement of indirect, direct objects, gender and so forth.

And any time one of those little parts of the mobile changes, is touched, any time you touch a word, you use it in a new context, you give it a new connotation, you verb it, you make the mobile move.

Another major point of contention is China s reflexive support for Pakistan s efforts to destabilize Ladakh and Kashmir, buttressed by deepening military cooperation. This aspect of China s foreign policy is puzzling, not only because it undermines relations with India, but also in view of Chinese fears of Islamist radicalism among the Xinjiang s Uighurs.

We must address, with restraint and prudence rather than with a reflexive nein the difficult question of whether military means are necessary to safeguard political solutions. We do not know when and where the next crisis will erupt, but we do know that it will and that we must be better prepared when it does.

The world has learned since 2008 how dangerously financial expectations can interact with policy blunders, turning modest economic problems into major catastrophes, first in the US and then in the eurozone. It would be ironic if China s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than Western devotees of free markets.

And so to give you an idea of an analogy of what I mean by thinking of cancering as a verb, imagine we didn't know anything about plumbing, and the way that we talked about it, we'd come home and we'd find a leak in our kitchen and we'd say, Oh, my house has water.