The verb is the key to increased productivity and utility in a sentence environment. Verbs are frequently described as an integrated clause solution for the new millennium, and with good reason. Verbs have been used throughout history, notably by Socrates, Chaucer, Dickens and Archer. Until the advent of verbs, nouns were static objects unable to fulfil their full sentence potential. Verbs freed them from mere labelling duties to become the vital, dynamic solutions we know today.
If you type a sequence of letters on your keyboard, is there any reliable way to tell whether the potential sentence element you have just constructed is a verb? There is much debate about this issue but here we need only concern ourselves on its influence on nouns. An unproductive noun juxtaposed with a verb has been shown to increase the noun's sentence productivity by almost 84%. Transitive verbs (chapter 14) can do this for two nouns at a time! No wonder they are the enhanced phrase tool of choice for many authors today.
The correct use of verbs is best illustrated by an example. Examples have been used since ancient times. Cicero, an ancient man, is known to have employed them frequently. He, or someone quite like him, was the first to point out that verb is itself a noun. If you Google verb, Google, a noun, is employed as a verb and verb takes the place of a noun. As you can see, it is a complex subject, and careful study of this example will be amply rewarded.
Now you understand verbs and can enjoy the enhanced sentence productivity they confer, you will want to invoke them frequently. It is recommended that you employ a variety of verbs so as not to place excessive strain on any particular example, although you are bound to have your favourites. Remember, others will wish to use them too, so don't be a 'verb hog'.
In the following chapter we examine adverbs and ask whether they add anything to verbs. Shakespeare claims they do, and he should know.
