Vision-quest Sentence Examples

Have you ever questioned the definition of a verb? Truth is, they're the heavy lifters of the English language. They take the subject of a sentence and move it forward into some sort of action. Or, they link the subject to further information in the sentence. Either way, a world without verbs would be a motionless world. Let's see how many verbs that start with "q" you can find.

When you’ve got a searing, stabbing pain pulling on the muscles in your leg, two words come immediately to mind: Charley horse! Who is Charley, and why is he doing this terrible thing to you? There’s a reason why we say this odd phrase and not “My leg is turning inside out” or “Ow, ow, please make it stop, ow" (although you might say that, too).