Verbius raised a tiny hand. “Enough. You have passed.”
Verbius snapped his stick-figure fingers. A giant screen appeared with the word . 501 English Verbs.pdf
“Tonight,” she told her cat, Mittens. “Tonight, we conquer tenses.” Verbius raised a tiny hand
Verbius paused. “Acceptable. Next: .” ” she told her cat
The final word appeared: .
She opened the PDF. Page one: “To be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been.” Simple. She yawned. By page 30 ( “To catch: caught, catching” ), her eyes glazed. By page 112 ( “To spring: sprang, sprung” ), she was dreaming of irregular past participles dancing the cha-cha.
