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The action hero of grammar, refusing to sit still while nouns just stand there.
means A word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being — like run, happen, or be — typically serving as the engine of a sentence.
from From Latin 'verbum,' meaning simply 'word' — as if, to the Romans, the verb was THE word, the one that made a sentence go. It reached English through Old French 'verbe' in the late Middle Ages, when grammar was a Latin-flavored science. That same 'verbum' is the cousin behind 'verbal,' 'verbose,' and 'proverb,' and it's possibly related, far back, to roots meaning 'to speak.'
oldest wordsIrregular verbs are language's ancient, stubborn fossils.
every sentenceNo verb, no sentence — it is the engine.
conjugation countSome languages pack thousands of verb forms each.
to verbEnglish turns any noun into action: google it.
latin rootFrom verbum, meaning simply 'word' itself.