Lighthouse verbs

What verbs do you associate with lighthouses? One post person/day.

climb

WALKING

Tour (or) Touring

finding

the obvious one: lighthousing

Seeking

Polish

Backtracking ...

(Dave, great avatar)

Preserving

Joyce

Joyce,

You used my verb. But another in my case would be
falling.

bobo

One of my favourite verbs in the English language...

Trekking.

BUYING AND BUYING AND MORE BUYING

lost

Photographing

Joyce

After you get home from that verb, you're ready for the next one:

GPSing.

SPENDING

Looks like we have a LOT of 'intransients' here.

Isn't a verb generally something you use to indicate the 'action' in a sentence - like 'climb' or 'jump.'

Adding -ing to the verb usually creates the 'instransient version of the verb. It would be used like "I was climbing the lighthouse."

So the verb in that sentence is 'was' isn't it?

Must be some members of P.O.E.M. here who can point us in the right direction... (Or is it pointing?)

P.O.E.M. - From Garrison Keeler "Professional Organization of English Majors"

Ruthie, I should have used your verb! Every Lighthouse trip is an expensive trip for me. Gota have the Shot Glass, the Hat Pin, the 30 Post Cards, the Tee-shirt.......etc. OH and yea the Harbour Lights!

Step

As in; Step up, step up, step up, step up....
And step down, step down, step down....

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

SWAT

As in what you have to do at Whitefish Point and Point Iroquois, Michigan in July at mosquitos and black flies.

Tom

Cruise/cruised

Joyce

Hike

Joyce

"ing"

Per Mr. Webster - suffix, used to form the present participle of a verb, ei, preserving.

"participle"

A nominal form of a verb that is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate certain tenses AND that can ALSO function independently as an adjective.

preserve (verb) preserving (transitive verb) Now we are getting really confusing,

SO, is it or isn't it?????

Joyce

A verb is a verb is a verb in this case...all I'm worried about is the "base" of the word. All these different forms are WAAAAYYY too much to think about.

Don't worry about whether it's transitive or intransitive or participial or whatever. I hate doing this kind of stuff enough in English and Latin class. I thought that the CF was a "grammar escape"!

... Almost like trying to determine what the meaning of "is" is?

Watch

Repair

Swear.

Ex: "Son of a !@#@! The map said turn RIGHT!
or: @#$! I'm on the wrong side of the canal!

That's a good one! You said it pierhead! :rolleyes:

I think that most all of us have said the same two exampels many times before ourselfs! At least I know that I have! :rolleyes:

I swear that I love this one.

bobo

Support.

Paint, as in physically painting the lighthouse and painting a picrure of the lighthouse.