By Jokes, Verbs

Hee, hee. It was a joke! What do you call the action ...?I call it crude!I call it a crude action!www.m-w.com: crude: marked by the primitive, gross, or elemental or by uncultivated simplicity or vulgarity CJ PS. I don't know of a verb that covers such a specific gesture.

.pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect?Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A nounWould you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation.I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

this way and maybe in 1000 years it won t have anything to do with the way it s written Jim Well I

The verb form is correct. Some might word it, "had been given women's names" -- your structure could imply a specific woman in mind for each hurricane.(The old joke was that this is the reason the word isn't "himmicanes" .)

You've got a phrasal verb pass on here, and the particle at the end of a phrasal verb can't be combined with another word, so you can't use onto. on to is what you need.Compare:Pass your papers in to the teacher. (to pass in)It took a while, but Charlie finally caught on to the...

I say the answer is a). Due to is correctly used following verbs of being. My laughter is due to the jokes he's been telling. I laugh / am laughing because of the jokes he's been telling. (action verb)

I could play tennis well -- could be interpreted as referring to a person's present state ability -- how he can play tennis well now; but, it could mean how he could play tennis well in the past if some part or parts preceding it or following it indicate that. Right? Yes, that's right in...

An adjective?-- If User_ Gary uses it (and who's Gary?) -- This is an in-joke for Moderators. The answer is 'no'. A number? -- 137 (uh-oh, lemme think... pretty tough clue, can't I get a yes or a no?">) -- Oh-- I thought you were just asking for a number, so I gave you one. 'No'. Is it...

No jokes, it's really just my opinion. I may be wrong. 'As' may be left out in these sentenses, I guess: 'That verb is used the same way in Italian'; 'She looks the same in that movie with John Badactor'.