Quiz time

God · May 19, 2017 at 4:52 AM

Give me a sentence that uses four consecutive simple present tense verbs with nothing else in between them. the first person to answer correctly gets 1000 XP

Elyk · May 21, 2017 at 4:05 PM

help help help help

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:27 PM

good try but i'm afraid that's Not A Sentence

Yoshin · May 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM

Is it cheating if the sentence is a list of them?

Kabuto · May 21, 2017 at 4:31 PM

but how can it be a sentence if theres no subject? or are you wanting one with implied you subject

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:33 PM

(May 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM)Yoshin Wrote: Is it cheating if the sentence is a list of them?

I think verbs technically stop behaving as verbs if they're presented in a list.

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:35 PM

(May 21, 2017 at 4:31 PM)Respecting Women Wrote: but how can it be a sentence if theres no subject? or are you wanting one with implied you subject

There can be a subject. The rules only state that no other parts of speech can be inbetween the consecutive four verbs.

Kabuto · May 21, 2017 at 4:38 PM

We explore, discover, document, destroy.

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:40 PM

No commas!

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:42 PM

So to clarify, "nothing else in between them" includes punctuation and formatting. The only valid thing that can be between each verb is a space.

Kabuto · May 21, 2017 at 4:43 PM

You appear to be running

God · May 21, 2017 at 4:47 PM

(May 21, 2017 at 4:43 PM)Respecting Women Wrote: You appear to be running

to is a particle
running is present continuous

Kabuto · May 21, 2017 at 4:49 PM

They imagine pretend fuck

Yrrzy · May 21, 2017 at 4:49 PM

The tagline of the original Half-Life was "Run Think Shoot Live"

Mario · May 21, 2017 at 4:50 PM

We're all gonna run run run around

God · May 21, 2017 at 5:02 PM

(May 21, 2017 at 4:49 PM)Respecting Women Wrote: They imagine pretend fuck

They is not a verb.
"Pretend fuck" is a noun phrase.

(May 21, 2017 at 4:49 PM)Yrrzy Wrote: The tagline of the original Half-Life was "Run Think Shoot Live"

I appreciate your thinking outside of the box, but run, think, shoot and live do not behave as verbs in this sentence.

(May 21, 2017 at 4:50 PM)Mario Wrote: We're all gonna run run run around

Gonna is not a simple present verb (and also includes the particle 'to').
Run run run is idiomatic, and only the first or the last repetition qualifies as a true verb.

Kabuto · May 21, 2017 at 5:03 PM

is this even possible

Yrrzy · May 21, 2017 at 5:04 PM

im not sure, i can chain two before they start having to use each other as adverbs or nouns

God · May 21, 2017 at 5:04 PM

tip: the correct answers do not consecutively use the same verb. there is at least one possible answer whereby the same verb is used twice in the sequence, but not consecutively.

Yrrzy · May 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM

i keep thinking i have something but then i realise it has a comma