En el principio era el Verbo, y el Verbo era con Dios, y el Verbo era Dios. -Juan 1, RV1960
Think, play, sing, eat, act, react, believe, pray. The past sentence I named described a finite series of simple verbs that randomly popped in my head in the past couple of seconds as I write this post. They have meaning, an implicit subject, and an action attached to it. A single verb can be addressed in different conjugations. A single verb can be identified though different grammatical accidents.
A single verb can reinforce anything we want to say.
No verbs, and there will be no chance to explain what do we want to convey. Put too much weak verbs together, and the readers’ mental tracks will be lost. Some are transitive and intransitive, linking and helping (and they don’t sound the same). Or they can be imperative, subjunctive, past, present, future, perfect, and so on and so forth. Verbs and only verbs have the chance to stand alone.
“I cry”, for instance, won’t have the same power as “Cry”.
“I try” won’t power out as “Try”.
But “want” simply cannot stand alone, not even “I want”. What do I want? What do I desire? Even a verb like “want” needs an even stronger reason. Without reassurance, there will never be a chance for them to shine.
Need. Fear. Am. Are. Will. Verbs like these need an answer. What do we need? What do we fear? What do we are? They need a response.
I don’t know how to answer them. At least, in this post.