CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LAUGH OFF
PRESENT
Present
I laugh off
you laugh off
he/she/it laughs off
we laugh off
you laugh off
they laugh off
Present continuous
I am laughing off
you are laughing off
he/she/it is laughing off
we are laughing off
you are laughing off
they are laughing off
Present perfect
I have laughed off
you have laughed off
he/she/it has laughed off
we have laughed off
you have laughed off
they have laughed off
Present perfect continuous
I have been laughing off
you have been laughing off
he/she/it has been laughing off
we have been laughing off
you have been laughing off
they have been laughing off
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 laughed off
you laughed off
he/she/it laughed off
we laughed off
you laughed off
they laughed off
Past continuous
I was laughing off
you were laughing off
he/she/it was laughing off
we were laughing off
you were laughing off
they were laughing off
Past perfect
I had laughed off
you had laughed off
he/she/it had laughed off
we had laughed off
you had laughed off
they had laughed off
Past perfect continuous
I had been laughing off
you had been laughing off
he/she/it had been laughing off
we had been laughing off
you had been laughing off
they had been laughing off
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will laugh off
you will laugh off
he/she/it will laugh off
we will laugh off
you will laugh off
they will laugh off
Future continuous
I will be laughing off
you will be laughing off
he/she/it will be laughing off
we will be laughing off
you will be laughing off
they will be laughing off
Future perfect
I will have laughed off
you will have laughed off
he/she/it will have laughed off
we will have laughed off
you will have laughed off
they will have laughed off
Future perfect continuous
I will have been laughing off
you will have been laughing off
he/she/it will have been laughing off
we will have been laughing off
you will have been laughing off
they will have been laughing off
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would laugh off
you would laugh off
he/she/it would laugh off
we would laugh off
you would laugh off
they would laugh off
Conditional continuous
I would be laughing off
you would be laughing off
he/she/it would be laughing off
we would be laughing off
you would be laughing off
they would be laughing off
Conditional perfect
I would have laugh off
you would have laugh off
he/she/it would have laugh off
we would have laugh off
you would have laugh off
they would have laugh off
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been laughing off
you would have been laughing off
he/she/it would have been laughing off
we would have been laughing off
you would have been laughing off
they would have been laughing off
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you laugh off
we let´s laugh off
you laugh off
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
laughed off
Present Participle
laughing off
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 «LAUGH OFF»
Discover the use of
laugh off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
laugh off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros
Truth, as any good reporter knows, is stranger than fiction. It's often funnier as well. Bob Fenster provides proof of that in his latest hilarious collection, Laugh Off. The author of the successful Duh!
2
Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style
The Laugh-Makers is an intensive sociological field study of the drive to become a successful stand-up comic in Canada.
... laugh off your debts, but laugh after your debts are off. The good payer is the
best laughter. The patient who laughs with you is the one who pays you first. The
subscriber who laughs with us is the one who pays us early. We give away lots of
...
4
A Thesaurus of English Phrases with Japanese Equivalents
SJJ'U Laugh off, to— to dismiss with a laugh; to treat light. «flj-3| L"Cii t j * « mmt *
Laugh one out of, to— to compel one through ridicull to abandon. Laugh one's
self into fits o- convulsions, to— to bring on lib or convulsions with laughing.
Eigo Kyôju Kenkyû Kai, 1905
5
The Student's Practical Dictionary of Idioms, Phrases and ...
Knight. The Regent's troops were in mutiny for want of wages, and Maithland
laughed in his sleeve as be watched her wearing out their patience. — Fronde.
To laugh off — to dismiss with a laugh ; to pay no heed to a matter. Hans kar tal
dená ...
6
Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases
P. Our baronet endeaveured to laugh off with a good grace his apostasy from the
popular party.— Mama Edoewontn. To laugh out of the other corner or side of the
mouth — to be made to feel vexation ; to have the laugh turned against a ...
7
Trinitarian Intelligibility - an Analysis of Contemporary ...
VP VP Tanja augmented resultative structure VP NP VYplakala svojo gore cried
out her misery Here is another example of a resultative verb vysmejat (laugh off) (
69 b) as an augmented lexical structure of smejat'sja (laugh) (69 a): (69)a.
Jennifer Anne Herrick, 2007
8
Laughing Matters: Learning to
Laugh When Life Stinks
... a license plate that bore the one word out of all the words in the dictionary that
he needed most to see at that moment. The word was TRUST. “What do you call
a moment like that?" writes Buechner. “Something to laugh off as the kind of joke
...
It's his dinner table laugh, from when he was trying to laugh off the superstition
about a husband-wife team bringing bad luck to a voyage. "Weird, I have to say.
Your mother's describing it... Yeah. Black-bean soup being stirred in a boiling pot.
And if you're you, serious you, you don't laugh off being there. You don't laugh off
anything. Instead you spend an hour at chapel seething with rage. Then you
spend another fifteen minutes seething with rage while getting back up the Hill to
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAUGH OFF»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
laugh off is used in the context of the following news items.
Nova Scotia comedians compete for laughs | The Chronicle Herald
Black competed in the Great Canadian Laugh Off once, finishing as the runner-up in Moncton. He also won Halifax's Funniest in 2012, which ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
Is The Sky About To Fall -- Ron Paul Thinks So - DepositAccounts.com
However, there are those who laugh off the notion that Ron's ramblings are meant to boost book sales. "Stansberry & Associates over the years ... «Deposit Accounts, Jul 15»
Is this 'cursed' smelly music box in your home? | Staff Newsletter
At first Tony tried to laugh off their experience but eventually, swayed by a good heart, he confessed that when he bought the box its previous ... «Staff Newsletter, Jul 15»
Vancouver is mortgaging its future for a market that's anything but free
You hear government officials literally laugh off ideas of locals living in neighbourhoods like Coal Harbour. That the idea someone who works ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
Patricia Navidad Amazing Response to Despierta America …
... enough, Navidad then proved that she was also blessed with an incredible sense of humor and took to Twitter to laugh off the incident. «People Magazine, Jul 15»
Warriors' Green mistaken for Lakers' Bass by a young fan
As you would imagine, these sort of mistakes are a lot easier to laugh off when you know that you have a championship ring and over $80 ... «247Sports, Jul 15»
Congress may have to protect consumers from the Consumer …
Lawmakers laugh off Jade Helm... The size of the operation and the secretive nature of the exercises have... Trump: McCain a 'dummy' Trump's ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It …
Ricard tends to laugh off the infamous title he earned several years ago in a neuroscience study: the "happiest man in the world." It's not ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Upstate Parents Petition Gold's Gyms To Ban Guns
“At first it was kind of easy to laugh off, it was like, oh wow some guys with guns made a stupid choice,” said Linvill. “And then I started realizing ... «WSPA.com, Jul 15»
Prince Philip asks east London community group: 'Who do you …
But thankfully community centre trustee Nusrat Zamir appeared to laugh off the remark, which was apparently a reference to the 'Eastenders' ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
