A verb that agrees in person and number with the subject of a clause, by conjugation.
Conjugation is a form of inflection. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct_verb Example:
They listen to the concert.
Inflection noun
1 Grammar a change in the form of a word (typically the
ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood,
person, number, case, and gender: a
set of word forms differing only in respect of inflections [mass noun] the process or practice
of inflecting words.
2 [mass noun] the modulation
of intonation or pitch in the voice: she spoke slowly and without inflection
[count noun]: the variety of his
vocal inflections the variation of the pitch of a musical note.
3 chiefly Mathematics a change of curvature from convex to concave
at a particular point on a curve: the point of inflection of the bell-shaped
curve
Casey Stengel was an above-average ballplayer who later became a great manager. As a player, Stengel played for five teams in
a 14-year career. Although he became
famous later in life as an American League manager, his whole career as a
player was spent in the National League. He broke in with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and greatly admired teammate Zack Wheat's
ability. Stengel's best year in baseball
was 1914 with Brooklyn, when he was fifth in the league in
batting, first in on-base percentage, and seventh in slugging. He had spent the spring of 1914 as the
baseball coach at the University of Mississippi. In 1916,
Brooklyn won the pennant, but lost the World Series
4 games to 1. In 1918, he left Brooklyn, and although he was to
play eight more years, in only two of those eight years did he play in 100+
games. He was with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies first, but landed with John McGraw's
New York Giants towards the end of the 1921
season. Although he is most famous for
managing the New York Yankees, he actually started his major
league managing career with two of his old teams, Brooklyn (1934-1936) and Boston (1938-1943),
never finishing higher than 5th in the league, before coming to the Yankees in 1949. Stengel also managed for years in the
minors, mostly in Toledo (his team won the Junior World Series in 1927) but also in Milwaukee and Worcester - and, most famously, in Oakland. See his year-by-year managerial record
at: http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Casey_Stengel
Joe Blundo's Feb. 14, 2013 column http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2013/02/14/buckeye-leaf-mistaken-by-police-out-of-state.html on
the woman who said her Buckeye leaf decal got her pulled over by Tennessee cops
prompted reader Keith Crabtree of Reynoldsburg to write with a similar
story. I have MS and navigate with a
motorized scooter. When I got my first
scooter in 2004, the only models on the showroom floor were blue or yellow. I
politely asked if they had any red and gray models. They brought out a red one, and the
"Brute Scoot" was born. I
adorn it with a Buckeye leaf every time OSU wins a ballgame and have the OSU
logo proudly displayed on the front. I'm
on my second Brute Scoot now. Several
years ago, I was coming through the Denver airport when security pulled me out
of the line. Several agents gathered
around the scooter and proceeded to start dismantling it. After several minutes, another agent came by
and noticed what was happening. He asked
what they were doing and one of the agents responded, "Those are marijuana
leaves. We think he's smuggling
dope." At which point, the new agent responded, "No, they're not, you
idiots. Those are Buckeye leaves. He's from Ohio!" At this point, they
quietly put the Brute Scoot back together and let me proceed, but without an
apology. I laughed most of the way back
to Columbus. I love the story. And it's worth pointing out that there's
absolutely nothing illegal about displaying a Buckeye leaf decal--or a
marijuana leaf decal -- on your vehicle. http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/regular-joe/2013/02/another-buckeye-leaf-story.html
Buckeye leaf
picture http://ohiodnr.com/Portals/18/education/pdf/buckeyestate.pdf See also pictures of tree, seed pods, flower,
bark, bud and buckeyes
Marijuana leaf
picture http://science.howstuffworks.com/marijuana1.htm
Feb. 12, 2013 Last week ended with San Francisco librarian Luis Herrera reciting Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," the work that inspired the football
team's name, to make good on his losing Super Bowl bet with the Enoch Pratt
Free Library of Baltimore. If the Niners
had won, Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Carla Hayden would have recited George
Sterling's "The Cool, Grey City of Love" in her city's
Central Library Main Hall while donning a Niners jersey. But instead, there was Herrera, a good sport
in Ray Lewis' purple No. 52 over a light purple dress shirt, perched on a
rocking chair in front of a stoic choir. "Congratulations Baltimore, and gooo
Niners!" he declared at the end.
Albert Samaha http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/02/luis_herrera_super_bowl_bet_the_raven.php
LIMA Feb. 17, 2013
The recent discovery of a
ceremonial fireplace believed to be more than 5,000 years old sheds light
on one of the oldest populated sites in the Americas. The fireplace, dubbed the Temple of Fire, was
discovered within the El Paraiso archeological complex in the Chillon valley,
located just outside the bustling Peruvian capital. Archeologists say the site is comparable in
age to Caral, the oldest pre-Columbian site in the Americas that was inhabited
between 2,600 - 2,100 BC. Caral is located some 200 kilometers (125 miles) to
the north and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The fireplace was found when archeologists discovered a narrow entrance
on a wing of El Paraiso's central pyramid in January, when they were removing
sand and stones. The entrance, measuring
some 48 centimeters (19-inches) wide, leads to a chamber measuring eight by six
meters (26 by 20 feet) where shellfish, grains, flowers and fruit were burned
as offerings. The stone walls inside
"were covered with a fine coating of yellow soil, with traces of red
paint," head archeologist Marco Guillen said. "The smoke allowed the priests to connect
with the gods." The temple has four
levels, "each one older than the other," Guillen said. The central pyramid is the only building
uncovered in El Paraiso. Experts say there are 10 "architectural
units" at the site that include temples, plazas and residences. Archeologists believe that the central
pyramid had a communal use, while two other structures -- which at a glance
look like sandy hills -- include buildings that appear to be homes.
The moon and the dazzling planet Jupiter pair up for another prime time showing Feb. 18, 2013.
If you saw the moon and Jupiter
yesterday–on Sunday–you may notice that the moon has moved eastward relative to
Jupiter and the background stars. Everyone
in the world’s Eastern Hemisphere– Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New
Zealand–will see the moon and Jupiter closer together than we will in the
Americas. Whereas the moon only stays in front of
Taurus (or any constellation of the Zodiac) for 2 to 3 days a month, Jupiter
lights up any constellation of the Zodiac for roughly a year. Jupiter takes about 12 years to go full circle
through the Zodiac. So every year, you
can use this brilliant world to learn a different constellation of the Zodiac. When
the moon drops out of the evening sky in late February and early March, let the
moon be your guide to the constellation Taurus the Bull. By this time next year, you can use Jupiter to
find the constellation Gemini the Twins. See images at: http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-jupiter-pair-up-again-night-of-february-18
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