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Blueblooded65 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

To use something more than needed

I'm looking for a verb for these examples:
Ex/
you open the water and leave it open while you are looking at yourself in the mirror. What are you doing with the water?

Another example,
you put food in your dish more than you eat. then you can't finish your dish completely and you throw the food away. What have you done with the food?
  

Top answer

blueblooded65 Y ou open the water turn on the tap and leave it open the water running while you are looking at yourself in the mirror blueblooded65 Y ou put more food on your plate in your dish more than you can eat. T hen you can't finish your dish completely and you throw the leftover food away. The verb "waste" and the phrase "being wasteful" come to mind.

— Teechr

  • blueblooded65 Y ou open the water turn on the tap and leave it open the water running while you are looking at yourself in the mirror blueblooded65 Y ou put more food on your plate in your dish more than you can eat.
  • T hen you can't finish your dish completely and you throw the leftover food away.
  • The verb "waste" and the phrase "being wasteful" come to mind.
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blueblooded65 You open the water turn on the tap and leave it open the water running while you are looking at yourself in the mirror
blueblooded65You put more food on your plate in your dish more than you can eat. Then you can't finish your di
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Oh thanks a lot.

Waste needs a noun after it. Do you know a verb which doesn't need a noun afterwards?

For example
It is not good to waste things.
Can you say this sentence with a verb and without a noun?
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I'm not sure I understand what you're looking for. I did suggest the phrase "being wasteful." You can Google that and perhaps you can get some ideas. You're welcome to post back if you have a full sentence for us to correct.
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teechrYou're welcome to post back if you have a full sentence for us to correct.
I think it should be "You're welcome to post back if you had a full sentence for us to correct.".
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khoshtipI think it should be "You're welcome to post back if you had a full sentence for us to correct.".
Hmm. I wonder where you got that idea from. "You're welcome" is present (You are welcome). The basic intent of "if you have" is "if you find". This hasn't happened yet. The OP will try to find such a sentence in the future. If he succeeds, he will
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There seem to be a subtle difference between my language, Kurdish/Persian and the English in this special case. Suppose we talk about the future. For example about a key. I say, "if you found the key next week, please give back it to me". It was according to my language grammar.
We use past in the future —here the past tense of the verb "find"—because finding the key has been occurred before t
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