Social media posts, speeches, advertising slogans and leaflets... Why do some of them inspire us to act while we pass others by with indifference? How can we motivate others? What signals, at the ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...

Modal Verb(s) Common Uses. Example Sentence. Ability. Can, Could, Be able to. Present/general ability, past ability, future ability. I can speak Spanish. I could swim when I was four.

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More important, Duolingo hasn’t yet taught her how Spanish verbs are conjugated: that, for example, ... The Cherokee language is another of the kind in which sentences can be verb sandwiches.

The sentence relies on a few tricks. The first is that “buffalo” is a verb as well as a noun and the name of a place. To buffalo someone is to confuse or fluster a person.