The verb is the part of speech that denotes action.
I’m taking action, now, to show you the first photographic action I took yesterday.
I’m taking action with these quotes about the verb:
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. — Lynn Margulis
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr.
I believe in the verb, not the noun – I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. — Yoko Ono
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we’ve poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually… a verb. It’s an activity. — Abigail Spencer
Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. — Barbara de Angelis
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir
I think (verb) it’s interesting that most of those quotes relate (verb) to a word’s part of speech — noun or verb?
I find (verb) that particularly interesting because most of the photos I took (verb) yesterday relate (verb) to that, also.
Since actions speak (verb) louder than words, I shall now act (verb) and show (verb) you those verb-ose pictures:
More thoughts about verbs and actions:
- The homework for my therapy groups includes taking a helpful action, every day.
- I heard this song in my head, yesterday, while I was thinking about words, actions, and verbs:
What action might you take, here and now?
Here’s my final action in this post:
I hero you Ann!
My hero, Val!
Verbs can not do justice to those three cakes.
Thanks for doing sweet justice here, Maureen.
As a grammar nerd, I love verbs (and nouns and adjectives and …). I even like the ones that show no action: believe, enjoy, hear and many more.
Thanks for verbing up my day!
I believe, enjoy, and hear you, Emilie.
The quotes distinguishing between noun and verb bring to mind how language evolves. Quotes itself was once the present tense of a verb; now it is a plural noun, having replaced quotations. Now why, I ask has quotations not become a verb? That surely would only be fair. Or am I talking rubbish? Or simply rubbishing?
You are never simply rubbishing, Derrick.
Hero is a verb- wow I like that one Ann 🙂
I also come to like that too.
I come to like both heroic comments.
It is possible that cake is a verb.
That possibility is a piece of cake.
A verb can also be a pro-verb:
“A grump who grumps is a grumpy”
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Thanks for proverbially grumping it up here, Maria.
Did they crash on your couch for awhile?
We do have two cats named Oscar and Harley crashing on our couch sometimes.