Finite Verb Phrases

Famous quotes containing the words finite, verb and/or phrases:

“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”
—David Lodge (b. 1935)

“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)