CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO IRONIZE
PRESENT
Present
I ironize
you ironize
he/she/it ironizes
we ironize
you ironize
they ironize
Present continuous
I am ironizing
you are ironizing
he/she/it is ironizing
we are ironizing
you are ironizing
they are ironizing
Present perfect
I have ironized
you have ironized
he/she/it has ironized
we have ironized
you have ironized
they have ironized
Present perfect continuous
I have been ironizing
you have been ironizing
he/she/it has been ironizing
we have been ironizing
you have been ironizing
they have been ironizing
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 ironized
you ironized
he/she/it ironized
we ironized
you ironized
they ironized
Past continuous
I was ironizing
you were ironizing
he/she/it was ironizing
we were ironizing
you were ironizing
they were ironizing
Past perfect
I had ironized
you had ironized
he/she/it had ironized
we had ironized
you had ironized
they had ironized
Past perfect continuous
I had been ironizing
you had been ironizing
he/she/it had been ironizing
we had been ironizing
you had been ironizing
they had been ironizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will ironize
you will ironize
he/she/it will ironize
we will ironize
you will ironize
they will ironize
Future continuous
I will be ironizing
you will be ironizing
he/she/it will be ironizing
we will be ironizing
you will be ironizing
they will be ironizing
Future perfect
I will have ironized
you will have ironized
he/she/it will have ironized
we will have ironized
you will have ironized
they will have ironized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been ironizing
you will have been ironizing
he/she/it will have been ironizing
we will have been ironizing
you will have been ironizing
they will have been ironizing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would ironize
you would ironize
he/she/it would ironize
we would ironize
you would ironize
they would ironize
Conditional continuous
I would be ironizing
you would be ironizing
he/she/it would be ironizing
we would be ironizing
you would be ironizing
they would be ironizing
Conditional perfect
I would have ironize
you would have ironize
he/she/it would have ironize
we would have ironize
you would have ironize
they would have ironize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been ironizing
you would have been ironizing
he/she/it would have been ironizing
we would have been ironizing
you would have been ironizing
they would have been ironizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you ironize
we let´s ironize
you ironize
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
ironizing
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 «IRONIZE»
Discover the use of
ironize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ironize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Excursus: to lie, to joke, ?to ironize In addition, it is interesting to compare the
usage of the terms lie, joke, and irony, as in Figure 1. Only lie and joke have non-
composited verb-forms. As Carter (1987) affirms, there 'is no such verb as 'I
ironize' ...
2
Aesthetic Politics: Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value
For is not politics often concerned with matters that may mean life or death to
numerous people, and would we therefore not demonstrate a painful lack of
political responsibility if we were to try to ironize politics? A radically opposed
view is ...
3
Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature
The fictional characters, fictional narrator and author may all make use of irony;
the characters can ironize themselves or other characters, the narrator can
ironize himself and characters, and the author can ironize the narrator. Internal
irony ...
4
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
In order to differentiate his practice from hers – a differentiation motivated by
considerations of both gender and class – Eliot must ironize Sosostris, even as
he tacitly identifies with her techniques by giving her such a prominent place in
the ...
Cassandra Laity, Nancy K. Gish, 2004
5
Doomed bourgeois in love: essays on the films of Whit Stillman
In Doomed Bourgeois in Love, the cultural critic Mark C. Henrie brings together a collection of political theorists, literary critics, and classicists to explore the meaning of Stillman's films.
6
A New Kind of Conversation: Blogging Toward a Postmodern Faith
We must ironize our irony too. I deeply appreciate and resonate with Ellen's call
for us to see bodies, and not just souls; persons, and not just problems; faces,
and not just unbelievers; as we minister the gospel of Jesus Christ in a
postmodern ...
Myron Bradley Penner, Hunter Barnes, 2007
7
From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of ...
(1) They return to “reality”, but (2) ironize this return to a world which by now has
become a product of consumption and of the fiction-producing media, and (3)
nevertheless use this faked return for the replenishment of subject matter and ...
8
Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
Each reading may serve to balance and ironize the other. The emergence of
such a hypothesis in a text that equally validates its contrary renders each quite
unlike a similar hypothesis appearing unchallenged." If this is true of the literary
text ...
9
Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
At this point, Potter and Wetherell's (1987) injunction not selectively to ironize the
talk of speakers (see also Woolgar, 1983 on instrumental irony) is effectively
irrelevant. It is not a question of not ironizing(to ironize would be to fail to treat ...
10
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the ...
The authors' disingenuous myth-making is fundamental to the wider attempt
within the novela de la selva to ironize the authority of narrative as an
unambiguous reflection ofreality.30 In his discussion ofthe counter-hegemonic
strategies of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRONIZE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
ironize is used in the context of the following news items.
My Own Private Baltimore
It's a city that defeats efforts to ironize. “Ah,” my friend the Evil Ben Walker would exult, every time he visited me from well-groomed Boston, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Why is ISIS on Birthday Cakes and at Gay Pride Parades?
Ironize them via Internet blog post? Take up the unenviable cross of defending utterly boring, naive, and "traditional" values (once known simply as values)? «Big Think, Jul 15»
Ulysses and the God of Irony
Worse, the disposition to ironize eradicates all genuine feeling, impoverishing the act of reading. If we are robbed of serious human characters, ... «First Things, Jun 15»
Don Quixote Saved My Life
The superiority of art over religion lies in art's willingness to ironize the fissure between metaphor and experience and in so doing be willfully ... «Brooklyn Rail, May 15»
“I do bad sex very well. In life and in the novel form”: Gary Shteyngart …
You got this dirty novel about a threesome, collaged with the whole history of the twentieth century: not to ironize everything but maybe do the ... «Salon, Apr 15»
Julianne Moore as Queer Icon of Cinema
Carol, as the privileged white American woman, becomes the perfect site for Haynes to localize — and indeed ironize — the panic that ravaged ... «Out Magazine, Feb 15»
Italy, Land of Immortals
Of course, that also led Italian media to ironize on that fact that Christian Democrats never really die. There was, however, still a risk that the left ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
The Gentleman Scholar's Ultimate Guide to the Bachelor Pad
Ironize your dread by hanging a Barbara Kruger slogan ($9.50 for a package of eight “I shop therefore I am” postcards at CafePress) up on your ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Why It Still Survives
Scenes where we see characters ironize the coquetry of '90s video store culture — such as flirting with the attendant about the availability of ... «Out Magazine, Oct 14»
The Ways in Which White People Talk Over Music
Rap-talk-singing is as white as it gets, but it doesn't have to ironize or foil blackness. White people rap-talk-singing pre-dates hip hop by ... «The Awl, Aug 14»
