can anyone tell me what a 'powerful verb' is - or tell me any examples? thanks?
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Powerful verbs are used to add drama or intensity to your piece.\n\nIt can be used like a swear word, maybe once in an entire story in order to thrust the nature of the situation into the readers heart, or else a series of powerful verbs may be used in a small sopace to show dramatic action in a shorter scene. \n\nThe trick is to not overuse powerful verbs, because then they lose their strength (because they become common), and they can also make your piece read very awkwardly.\n\nAn example of a powerful verb would be when I used the word "thrust" in my previous paragraph. A weak verb would be "put."\n\nThrust into the readers heart.\nPut into the readers heart.\n\nObviously, "thrust" is stronger. It sounds like somebody was gored by a spear. "Put" sounds like you're stocking a bookshelf.
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make no mistake about it English is the single hardest language in the world to learn.  \n\nbut adjectives and adverbs aren't the difficult part.  by far the most difficult part is the fact that there are exceptions to every rule.\n\nadjectives and adverbs are easy   here's the quick and easy version\n\nlets say you buy a car.    any word that describes that car is an adjective.  blue car, fast car, big car, small car \n\nadjectives describe things.\n\nadverbs describe verbs its right there adVERB.\n\nlets say    he ran.  the noun is he the verb is ran\n\nadverbs describe verbs  so   ran slowly, ran quickly, ran awkwardly.  the words that describe how he did the action (verb)\n\nkeep at it more and more people around the world are starting to learn english as a second language so doubtless it will become very usefull in the future.
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THE POWER COURSE is a course in business writing. Few people enjoy English courses, but the guy who can write has a skill everybody wants. You'll see when you get into the workforce. If you don't have a complete command of the language, there are a million things they won't let you get involved in. They might even replace you. My advice is even if you don't like English courses, find one that stresses writing and make yourself take at least two of these courses. You'll be glad you did.
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Today was red, and the word was "can".\n\nThanks for your help too! :)
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You need ADVERBS in those blanks. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. The word "very" works in any of those blanks. Here are some colorful adverbs for you.\n\nexceedingly helpless chick\nquite heavily\ninsanely cleverly
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Can you tell us the context in which you saw this word?  It is not coming up in any English dictionaries so might be a foreign word. Or perhaps it is misspelled?\n\nI definitely need more information
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State of being verbs are the various forms of the verb to be: be being, been, am, are, is was, were.  The term "state of being" confuses many students. I prefer to call them non-action verbs. In addition to the verb be, become, seem, taste, feel, appear, grow, sound, look,stay, remain, and get (when get means to become such as in the sentence, "Larry just got sergeant." can be linking or non-action verbs.\n\nRemember that predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives can be found ONLY after non-action verbs.\n\nGood luck. I hope this helps.
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Are you discussing a class in school?  Or are you discussing the grammatical "simple subject"?\n\nIf it is a class, that totally depends on your interests.\nIf it is part of grammar, that would be You, "I", "He", "She", or "It". An example would be "I ran."   I is the simple subject, ran is the verb.
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Linking verbs do not express action.  They connect the subject of the verb to addittional info about the subject.  \nExample:  Ashley is a teacher.  Is connects the subject (Ashley) to the additional information about her.
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I am guessing that it is a phrasal verb- please cut using it (like cut it out=stop it-> stop using it ).\n\nOr literally: Cut it when/before being used.\n\nThat's till where my imagination can work.\nHope it helps.
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some reflexive verbs are:\nacostarse (to go to bed)\nlevantarse (to get up)\nbañarse (to take a shower)\npreguntarse (to wonder)\n\na reflexive verbe means that the action affects the person who's doing it, e.g.\n\nreflexive: levantarse\ntodos los días ME levanto a las 10 = everyday i get up at 10 (every day i get my self up at 10)\nnon-reflexive: levantar\nlevanta la pluma = pick up the pen\n\nreflexive: bañarse\nvoy a BAÑARME (or ME voy a BAÑAR)= i'm gonna take a shower (i'm gonna bath my self)\nnon-reflexive: bañar\nvoy a bañar al perro = i'm gonna bath the dog\n\nreflexive: preguntarse\nél SE PREGUNTA cómo es ella = he wonders how's she like (he asks himself how is she like)\nnon reflexive: preguntar\nél le preguntó cómo estaba = he asked him/her how he/she was doing\n\nreflexive= acostarse\nusualmente ME ACUESTO a las 11 = usually i go to bed at 11 (usually i put my self in bed at 11)\nnon-reflexive: acostar\nacuesta a los niños = put the kids in bed\n\nto cojugate:\npreguntarse\n\nyo ME preguntO         i wonder\ntú TE preguntAS        you wonder\nél/ella SE preguntA    he/she wonders\nnosotros NOS preguntAMOS we wonder\nustedes SE preguntAN     you wonder\nellos/ellas SE preguntAN they wonder
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Simple:\nKnowledge is Power\nso..... you learn to earn power
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I don't really understand your question - are you just wanting to look up a few words?  If you want the definitions of verbs, you have to look up the first person singular present tense form, not the infinitive.  So you would look up credo, not credere (believe). Cresco, not crescere (grow).  Crux is cross.
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It is a predicate (verb) that contains two or more verbs. For example, "He is eating a sandwich." Is eating is a compound verb phrase. "He has been taking piano lessons." Has been taking. "I was given a beautiful scarf for my birthday." Was given. "I am hungry" Am is a simple predicate because there is only one verb in the predicate. \nAnd so on.
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A gerund verb occurs in the second and third person present tense and is used to describe an action that happens in the present or to describe an action that was happening in the past in the reflective.\n\nTo give you an example:\n\nVerb: Run\nGerund: running\n\n2nd person present tense: He is running now.\n3rd person present tenst: I am running now.\n\n2nd person reflective (past present tense): He was running when his phone rang.\n3rd person reflective (past present tense): I was running when my phone rang.
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thats really powerful... you should make it like a foreward or something! thats awesome!
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I think examples will illustrate this best.\n\nCOMPOUND SUBJECT. Bill and Gary went to the movies.\n                                          Mary and Beth graduated in June.\n\nBill and Gary is a compound subject as is Mary and Beth. \n\nCOMPOUND OBJECTS: The child threw the pail and shovel.\n                                           Grace kicked the chair and desk.\n\nPail and shovel are direct objects of the verb threw. Chair and desk are the direct objects of the verb kicked.\n\nMost compounds are joined by and, or, for, nor or but. However, they may also be joined by either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also.\n\nI hope this helps you.