“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
“Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.”Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.”“Hyacinth.”“Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.”
“In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts”
“There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. ”
“The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.”