CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRIVELLING
PRESENT
Present
I drivel
you drivel
he/she/it drivels
we drivel
you drivel
they drivel
Present continuous
I am drivelling
you are drivelling
he/she/it is drivelling
we are drivelling
you are drivelling
they are drivelling
Present perfect
I have drivelled
you have drivelled
he/she/it has drivelled
we have drivelled
you have drivelled
they have drivelled
Present perfect continuous
I have been drivelling
you have been drivelling
he/she/it has been drivelling
we have been drivelling
you have been drivelling
they have been drivelling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I drivelled
you drivelled
he/she/it drivelled
we drivelled
you drivelled
they drivelled
Past continuous
I was drivelling
you were drivelling
he/she/it was drivelling
we were drivelling
you were drivelling
they were drivelling
Past perfect
I had drivelled
you had drivelled
he/she/it had drivelled
we had drivelled
you had drivelled
they had drivelled
Past perfect continuous
I had been drivelling
you had been drivelling
he/she/it had been drivelling
we had been drivelling
you had been drivelling
they had been drivelling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will drivel
you will drivel
he/she/it will drivel
we will drivel
you will drivel
they will drivel
Future continuous
I will be drivelling
you will be drivelling
he/she/it will be drivelling
we will be drivelling
you will be drivelling
they will be drivelling
Future perfect
I will have drivelled
you will have drivelled
he/she/it will have drivelled
we will have drivelled
you will have drivelled
they will have drivelled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been drivelling
you will have been drivelling
he/she/it will have been drivelling
we will have been drivelling
you will have been drivelling
they will have been drivelling
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would drivelling
you would drivelling
he/she/it would drivelling
we would drivelling
you would drivelling
they would drivelling
Conditional continuous
I would be drivelling
you would be drivelling
he/she/it would be drivelling
we would be drivelling
you would be drivelling
they would be drivelling
Conditional perfect
I would have drivelling
you would have drivelling
he/she/it would have drivelling
we would have drivelling
you would have drivelling
they would have drivelling
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been drivelling
you would have been drivelling
he/she/it would have been drivelling
we would have been drivelling
you would have been drivelling
they would have been drivelling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you drivel
we let´s drivel
you drivel
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
drivelled
Present Participle
drivelling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIVELLING»
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drivelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
drivelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fish's Clinical Psychopathology: Signs and Symptoms in ...
Schneider (1930) claimed that five features of formal thought disorder could be
identified: derailment, substitution, omission, fusion and drivelling. In derailment
the thought slides on to a subsidiary thought, while in substitution a major thought
...
F. J. Fish, Patricia R. Casey, Brendan Kelly, 2007
A master I have, and I'm bis man, Drivelling, dreary Wliig, And for Westminster he
will get in if' he can, With his spouting, shouting, Radicals flouting, Riddling,
Diddling, Haifa conservative — drivelling dreary Whig. I once went in with him, ...
3
The
Drivelling Dachshund
"An ingenious tail [sic] of how humans look and act from the dog's point of view"--P. [3].
4
Royal Dictionary, English and French and French and English
A drivelling child, an enfant 114i bare, un enfanr-d In bowelle. A drivelling hero,
us'rol niais. A drivelling lover, amoureuz niais. Drivelling love, sot amour.
Drivelling sentiment, sensibiIiré nlnise, sensiblerie, f. V. Dittr. DRIVELLER (driwl-v
'l-eur), ...
5
The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and ...
They Have been driven from this refuge of lies ; biit doubtless the same blind
credulity' and drivelling folly which led them to enrol themselves in the ' list of '
Joanna'" Sourhcott's followers, will make them fit dupes of the first pretender to ...
6
The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and ...
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a drivelling hero; drivelling love. DRIVEL, n.
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth. — 2.f A driveller; a fool; an idiot.
DRIVELLER, n. A slaverer; a slab- berer; an idiot; a fool. DRIVELLING, ppr.
Shivering; foolish.
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The Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry
He described transitory thinking as characterised by derailments and omission in
the train of thought by which both the semantics and syntax may be disrupted and
drivelling thinking where there is a mixing and muddling of the thoughts ...
Robin Murray (MD, M Phil, MRCP, MRC Psych.), Robin Murray, Peter David Hill, 1997
8
Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864
drivelling. tears,. and. diabolical. sympathies,. whether. it. ought. not. piously. to.
save,. corn grow of itself ; and that everybody would be able to live, without doing
any work for his living. This theory would also be found highly untenable in ...
9
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Old drivelling fool l he called me," quoth the dame, “ When I just hinted at the
person's name, And talked of comfort to the troubled breast, From prayer with him
, and evil deeds confest. Old drivelling fooll he called me, with a curse That made
...
10
A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages: ...
BABE'O, s. m. The act of drivelling, or slavering. BABE'RA, / /. 1. Fore part of the
helmet which covers the checks, mouth and chin. 2. A foolish, silly fellow.' ÈABE'
RO, / m. V. Babaior. BABERO'L, s. m. V. Baiera. BABI'A, s J. Ljlar en babia, To be
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIVELLING»
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drivelling is used in the context of the following news items.
Q & A's danger of irritating the conservative in anybody
Often, though, some of the opinions entertainers come out with will be of a fairly drivelling kind and it tends to be the case that they are of the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
'F--- off you autistic whore...you can't stop us'
The moderator told the women they should approach “the owners” of the photos and seek their deletion, “instead of drivelling nonsense about how 25-year-old ... «Perth Now, Jun 15»
Humans and The BBC At War review by CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
This drivelling debacle about two Napoleonic magicians attracts barely 20 per cent of Poldark's audience. While members of a suburban family ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
Is Zac Goldsmith too posh to run for Mayor of London?
Surely the Spectator can do better than drivelling on about someone being too “posh”. That's the sort of comment one expects from Labour ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
'History in India has always been twisted'
Meanwhile, stop drivelling. – YS Prahalad *** I went through whole article to find some explosive proof but unfortunately there is none. It's a list ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
Re: Never Again in Kumawu – Biography of Rockson Adofo – Part I
When a fool is drivelling, he thinks he is great. Alexander, remember when you once came out with two publications, as soon as I rebutted them ... «GhanaWeb, May 15»
Dennis Potter: there is a nostalgic, rightwing impulse in England
And it's that mock religiosity, the fact that religion now is merely a piece of drivelling sanctimony in the mouths of rather dreary priests, that I'm ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Our Political Class Is Insane: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the …
When he went public about his HIV infection the twits on Twitter began drivelling on about this being “an incredibly brave and powerful thing to ... «Breitbart News, Apr 15»
CRAIG BROWN asks is ANYONE as catty as an ageing TV chef?
For instance, Byron accused Keats of 'drivelling idiotism', calling him 'a tadpole of the lakes', and Christopher Smart said of Thomas Gray that ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
Birdman (2014): How Arrogance Can Get You an Oscar
... birthday party with drums beating aloud and you're watching he's cataracts grow larger while he drags through yet another drivelling speech. «News24, Feb 15»
