“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, Founder of Buddhism

Main verbs are either past tense or present tense. (more…)

“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.” - George Orwell

The passive voice is to be used as little as possible. Microsoft Word will calculate passive sentences with the word count function. The active voice gives a sense of immediacy to the sentence. (more…)

“All cognitive concepts have a transitive meaning: they go beyond descriptive reference to particular facts” - Herbert Marcuse

Verbs are classified as transitive or intransitive: (more…)

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

Verbs can indicate intention by being placed in the indicative, imperative or subjunctive mood. (more…)

When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style. - Bruce Lee

Verbs are distinguished by singular or plural and by person (first, second, third). Verbs usually have a different form in the third person present tense: I, you, we, they walk. He, she, it walks. He, she and it are third person present tense.

“To be or not to be, –that is the question:–
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?”
-Shakespeare, From Hamlet (III, i, 56-61)

Exception: “To be” has a (more…)