#strong verbs

[muhammad-ubaidullah-khan]

GRAMMAR

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COMPOSITION

BY

EFZAL ANWARE MUFTI

#Common Errors In The Use Of Pronouns #Weak And Strong Verbs #Weak Verbs #Strong Verbs #Common Weak Verbs #Common Strong Verbs #GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION BY EFZAL ANWARE MUFTI #GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION #EFZAL ANWARE MUFTI #Pakistan #Qaumi Kutub Khana Lahore #Qaumi Kutub Khana #Lahore Pakistan #Lahore

[mostlymaudlin]

if you're worried about repetitive sentence starters in narrative writing (ie: frequently starting with "I" or a pov character's name), i think the most important thing to focus on is not the kind of words you're using, but rather the moving parts in your story that are being highlighted.

english is best suited for a subject (I) - verb (wrote) - object (this) sentence structure; that's the format that the reader will inhale without noticing, easy as breathing. it's also the easiest for you to write (hence, your draft full of sentences starting with pronouns). for a lot of the delivery of your story, you should be in that "stealth mode" so that the lines you want noticed can really leap off the page in comparison. messing with the subject-verb-object pattern signals to the reader that there's something to notice, and writing is awkward when it's full of sentences that say, "look at me!"

if you're worried about variation of sentence starters, you want to zoom out on the narrative and think about the scene you are trying to show, or the point you are trying to make. let's do an example from my own writing:

That’s not all true. Baz had already mapped out the best regular flights from Heathrow to LAX. He was talking about weekend trips in the middle and FaceTime date ideas he’d found on Pinterest. It filled Simon with dread. Baz wasn’t taking any of it seriously. As silly as the role was, everyone knew Bad Blood was going to be huge. Baz was the exciting, fresh face joining a star-studded cast for the most audience-friendly teen vampire show in history. Simon wasn’t going to let him blow it.

all the blue sentences follow, in general, that subject-verb-object pattern. the pink sentence is the outlier, and it's also the most significant line in the paragraph; in this story, this is the moment where you finally learn simon's motivation for previously breaking up with baz. the rest of the sentences all start with a noun, but they're different nouns based on what needs to be said.

here's another way this could be written:

Simon knows that's not all true. He'd watched Baz map out the best regular flights from Heathrow to LA and look up FaceTime date ideas. Simon worried that Baz wasn't taking it seriously. He knew Bad Blood would be huge, despite the concept being silly. But Simon knew Baz was the exciting, fresh face joining a star-studded cast for the most audience-friendly, sexy teen vampire show in history. Simon wasn't going to let him blow it.

this probably looks more similar to the kind of paragraph people get nervous about. simon simon simon -- like, stfu man! what's really happening is just that simon is not the best subject for all of these sentences. it's true that "simon knows" and "simon watched" and "simon knew," but we already know all that, because we know we're in his head. when you look at paragraphs like these, you want to identify the true subject of your sentences. even in the most introspective of paragraphs (like the above example), the narrator is usually not the Most Important Noun.

let's do one more example for when you're writing really menial tasks -- this is where i most commonly have this problem:

Andrew turns on the TV, puts the volume almost all the way down, and crouches in front of the DVD collection. His fingers trail along the spines for a moment before he pulls a case from the shelf. The player swallows the disc as Andrew crosses the room to turn out the lights. Tinged blue in the shadows, he comes to stand in front of Neil again, hand extended in demand.

so, same thing: the subjects, the nouns taking action, are andrew, his fingers, the dvd player, and then andrew again with a modifier. the first time i wrote this, i'm sure "andrew" or "he" was the start of every sentence, because my man is just doing his lil task here and sometimes that's not the most exciting thing to write. but again: it's not all about him! other nouns deserve the spotlight. the last sentence breaks the pattern, but it's also the completion of the task: he has successfully set the movie-watching scene, and this sentence is transitioning us to them watching the movie.

there's lots of ways to write and i definitely don't have all the answers, but i do think that any writing advice that asks you to focus on mechanics rather than structure will ultimately not help you solve the root of bad writing habits. when i write, i'm thinking: what's the main player noun in the action taking place? that's what becomes the subject of my sentence, so my starters are naturally a lot more varied. it's less intimidating to think about the purpose of your story (which you're already excited about!) when you're writing than it is to put that focus on mechanics.

good luck! you've got this!!

#theres another post going around and i promise im not trying 2 be shady just offering my perspective on this specific thing #i have strong opinions on subject-verb sentence structure <3 it is my beloved #writing #writing advice #i love that i got really stoned to go to bed so i would stop writing #and instead i got incredibly worked up abt sentence structure and wrote an essay #the human mind is unstoppable #anyway im going to bed now hopefully probably

[er-cryptid]

Verbs with Strong Preterit Forms

poder

poner

saber

venir

hacer

querer

decir

traer

ser

ir

dar

ver

estar

tener

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[sarenhale]

Thinking about yesterday's finnish class, where my lovely teacher (this sweet 60 year old lady that gives off precious aunt vibes) was giving us some verbs to conjugate with her in call to practice conjugation/different verb types, and then gave me the verb 'Kiroilla'. I don't know what that means, but she always tells us what new verbs mean when we do exercises so I'm just there chilling with no reaction to it, but I see she's struggling to find her words and she goes like 'Kiroilla means... uhm... eh... 'to curse'. You know what Marina, just do the negative conjugation for this' NJHSDGHCHUJKSDGVVYUHGRBJABOIFCHBIOGBVIOJUERGFBDVOIURFE She looked so mortified... it was so funny oh my god

She said 'Well I needed some verbs to conjugate that end with 'LA'... sometimes there's not enough and I had to pick one...' dshjgvjfdgbvhjfd

#it hits harder in italian (the classes are italian-finnish) because the italian translation for 'to curse' is 'bestemmiare' which is a VERY #STRONG verb considered VERY vulgar ( 'curse' in english doesn't really equal to the italian version) cause cursing in italian is common bu #considered WAY stronger and heavier than the english counterpart. italian cursing can be really harsh and vulgar #so when she went 'ehh it means bestemmiare' i was like OH OKAY. LMFAO

[kariachi]

I may do something weird with Imperial Erinaen, don't know, have to figure out how fucking verbal moods work before I decide on anything.

As it stands I think I have a grasp on basic aspects and my desire to express a lot of information in a comparatively few words with the language is clashing with my desire to not re-do my fucking verb conjugation system.

#'if you want to be naturalistic and not use aspect words you should combine your aspect and verb conjugations' bite me #there's two dozen different options there with just the fucking tense you really want me to double or triple that? #not happening i'm not that strong

[marnz]

if I’m real with you I do believe most people are capable of learning most skills at most jobs. However work is not ONLY skills, I think there has to be a wide variety of things at play—training, mentorship, temperament, aptitude, funding, benefits, etc—but skills are how we learn and why experience is so highly valued.

if I remember correctly, in a Marxist school of thought, you as a worker are selling your labor power to your employer for $$$ and your employer is then applying it to labor that needs to be done. you don’t hold the work, you hold the power to do the work. I think given the amount of economic coercion our society operates under, this power is forgotten until strikes happen and remind us.

and I think this framework does account for experience. you get paid more as an experienced worker (in theory) because your employer is paying for all of your past labor power! so we can say labor power accrues over time and is not depleted by being applied to labor. I would not say labor power is a measurement of your CAPACITY to do labor at any given point though, only that it does not work like capital where you “spend” it. Marx probably does a much better job of laying this out but it’s been a long time since I read Capital.

But say you are not a Marxist and the idea of labor power is too much like trying to do physics equations that calculate force. Fair enough! Let us return to skills. “Skills” have, for a long time, been used to devalue certain kinds of work—as if manual labor, customer service, retail, agricultural work, teaching, cleaning, etc, require no complex and difficult to acquire skills your average office worker does not have in their repertoire. all work takes skill! this is a labor slogan. and it does.

however I think there are other skills we must hone in the work place (and in life), and there’s been a lot of talk (anxiety?) recently about skills that are not being taught. tech skills! I also think it takes skill to learn and retain information and schools do not always do a good job of teaching this for whatever reason. resourcefulness.

so if we have established all of this…why say “it’s not hard” and devalue yourself as a worker? just because you can do it DOES NOT mean it’s not hard.

#currently #the union makes us strong #live look at me learning replete is not a verb and also me mentally comparing labor power to physics equations re: force #this is a call out post for myself

[tj-crochets]

What plushie should I make next? I feel like designing a plushie pattern but idk what to make

#the person behind the yarn #well really I have a strong urge to go use my punching bag #what's the verb for that? boxing??? #but I don't box that's not the style I learned #maybe kickboxing???? technically I did learn that first because my mom used to teach kickboxing #but the martial arts style I learned was Krav Maga and that doesn't really verb well #anyway I want to do that but I am having a 'resting heart rate is in the moderate level exercise zone' so I can't #so...plushies! thinking about plushies #considering their techniques #I have started buying plushies instead of only owning ones made by me (and a few made by my friends) #because I like plushies and also because I am learning construction techniques from looking at them

[arcadianico]

a hobby of mine is reading scots poems to english speakers and watching them realise they can’t understand 80% of it

#aye it’s just a dialect is it? #but yeah anyways there’s not really a strong dividing line between what counts as a dialect and what counts as a language but scots #is legally a minority language in the uk #also the words they understand tend to be nouns and adjectives and verbs tend to be more difficult for them

[calenturian]

How come you speak romanian as an australian? Do you have family, a partner, friends or workmates that are romanians or is it just a personal interest?

Them

I don't know anyone in person who even speaks Romanian. I knew a couple of words already because of Dragostea din tei, and I knew it was the language with the intriguing hyphens, but I never considered learning it until these guys came along and before I knew it my playlists were full of Romanian songs and I was starting to pick up actual grammar and I figured I ought to do the thing properly. Now I have a 376 day streak on duolingo and an entire pastoral ballad in my brain and I regret nothing.

I love it so much. It makes me want to write poetry that doesn't start with foaie verde lol

#hyphens > apostrophes #sorry this has been sitting in my inbox for days but i keep forgetting #or overthinking it #asks answered #but seriously #everything i learn about this language makes me love it more #even the things i can't get my head around #like all the different strong and weak pronouns and which verbs are reflexive #sometimes i just make every verb reflexive out of spite #and sometimes they actually are #i mean this in the most respectful way of course #but if it happened to be the case that the intricacies of the romanian language were in part devised to fuck with invading foreigners #i would be completely unsurprised #and even more in love than i already am #go to bed cal

[mishkakagehishka]

I will continue telling everyone that Shu is actually jacked up until they lock me away, he just looks skinny, but he's not. I know what his profile says about his weight, they're lying. He's buff. I know this in my heart.

#that's why he never wants to show skin btw he looks skinny when clothed and the fact that he's buff gives him dysmorphia #but he's still jacked up bc he has to be strong for valkyrie activities🙄 #ensemble stars #i genuinely hope 'jacked up' is the right phrasal verb and that i didn't accidentally use a rude phrase but i can't be arsed to look it up

[miabrown007]

eugh, words

#who knew that at age 26 I'd be buying a dictionary notebook(?) again to learn English words of all things #that I'd sit over fanfiction and look up the words I don't quiet understand #watch my writing suddenly become half britpicked because I learn words from dhr fic that uses the british alternative for everything #and I will not even know it because it doesn't sound british or american to me just english #we shan't be using 'snogging' though by the by. even my dialect-blindness has its limits #but also it isn't even just british expressions and words. I've betad an ml fic and collected like a page worth of words of it #and they were just the ones that looked promising and exciting #I really need more verbs though because I know what they say about using strong verbs but strong verbs are rare words #and so I often don't even know them or know a word exists for something I'm looking for #ugh I just want to be a native with exquisite vocabulary so bad 😭 #so anyways does anyone else overthink writing stories about cat and bug kissing like this or is it just me? #how do you learn new words without sitting over a notebook and memorizing?? #I feel like they say reading should do the trick but I won't remember a word if I read it once #though I did learn the word snogging in the past month so maybe I just need to read them enough times #and we've reached the mandatory ducks for your troubles 🦆🦆 #miaing

[edenavari]

my toxic trait is i get the urge to bite murder kill anyone who tells me what to do in any context whatsoever

#the imperative verb tense is my assassin mode trigger #i must fight the inner beast that rises to its call #i'm being so brave and strong about being told to do the most innocuous shit #'pick this up' i'm gonna pick up yer jugular with my teeth #monkey brain says fuck you yer not my mom!!

[plushslug]

I fucking love writing endless strings of clauses that make sentences incredibly difficult to follow. Almost as much as I love adverbs.

#i am an adverb defender until the day i die 'just use stronger verbs' i will add an adverb to the strong verb to make the verb even verb-er #original content

[brisketrotater]

squoze >>>>>>> squeezed

#linguistics #strong verb superiority

[slutforwings]

"language change is inevitable and while language purism can slow it down theres no stopping it" and "we should stop looking at british or american english as the standard and let deviations be their own standard instead of mistakes" can still go together with me being irked by the regularisation of payed instead of paid. i know its the most human thing out there (overgeneralisation baby!) but i hate it and it stays wrong in my eyes >:(

#then again if i told my language prof hed be delighted if he didnt already know #'a strong verb becoming weak in our own time! you should do a masters thesis on this' #i will not. #i think he would also like the she xs on my y till i z meme

[anragaire]

The problem with having studied Old English is that I now apply defunct grammar rules to modern English when I'm tired

#those strong verbs #good old shepes #i also do this with irish and old irish #old english #english lit #english #i need a nap