I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
I love the Spanish language.
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
