CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PLUCK
PRESENT
Present
I pluck
you pluck
he/she/it plucks
we pluck
you pluck
they pluck
Present continuous
I am plucking
you are plucking
he/she/it is plucking
we are plucking
you are plucking
they are plucking
Present perfect
I have plucked
you have plucked
he/she/it has plucked
we have plucked
you have plucked
they have plucked
Present perfect continuous
I have been plucking
you have been plucking
he/she/it has been plucking
we have been plucking
you have been plucking
they have been plucking
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 plucked
you plucked
he/she/it plucked
we plucked
you plucked
they plucked
Past continuous
I was plucking
you were plucking
he/she/it was plucking
we were plucking
you were plucking
they were plucking
Past perfect
I had plucked
you had plucked
he/she/it had plucked
we had plucked
you had plucked
they had plucked
Past perfect continuous
I had been plucking
you had been plucking
he/she/it had been plucking
we had been plucking
you had been plucking
they had been plucking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will pluck
you will pluck
he/she/it will pluck
we will pluck
you will pluck
they will pluck
Future continuous
I will be plucking
you will be plucking
he/she/it will be plucking
we will be plucking
you will be plucking
they will be plucking
Future perfect
I will have plucked
you will have plucked
he/she/it will have plucked
we will have plucked
you will have plucked
they will have plucked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been plucking
you will have been plucking
he/she/it will have been plucking
we will have been plucking
you will have been plucking
they will have been plucking
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would pluck
you would pluck
he/she/it would pluck
we would pluck
you would pluck
they would pluck
Conditional continuous
I would be plucking
you would be plucking
he/she/it would be plucking
we would be plucking
you would be plucking
they would be plucking
Conditional perfect
I would have pluck
you would have pluck
he/she/it would have pluck
we would have pluck
you would have pluck
they would have pluck
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been plucking
you would have been plucking
he/she/it would have been plucking
we would have been plucking
you would have been plucking
they would have been plucking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you pluck
we let´s pluck
you pluck
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
plucking
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 QUOTES WITH «PLUCK»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
pluck.
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do.
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUCK»
Discover the use of
pluck in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pluck and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tom Fairfield's
Pluck and Luck
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Allen Chapman, 1stworld Library, 2006
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By Sheer
Pluck (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)
By using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of By Sheer Pluck by G.A. Henty was edited for three audiences.
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Bradley
Pluck and the Skydrivers
Life will never be the same again in the small village of Upperbump for Bradley Pluck and his friends.
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Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless
Pluck in the Farthest ...
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
New York cartoonist/animator Ted Stearn is currently working as a mainstay for MTV animation.
Then get ready to pluck the hanging gold. Ready? Now is the promising time. If
you cannot pluck the hanging gold now, which is but its season, WHEN THEN
ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT? To pluck the hanging gold is a thing graced with not
...
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And They
Pluck Out Your Eyes
A novel set against the failed coup d'etat in Spain of 1981. It follows the lives of a cross section of society in the three months leading up to the coup, and the week following.
Introduces the string instruments, and provides instructions for making simple examples from common household articles
Sally Hewitt, Peter Millard, 1995
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The Complete Poems of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali: Texts ...
Poem # 06 Pluck This Little Flower Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I
fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. I may not find a place in thy garland, but
honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUCK»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pluck is used in the context of the following news items.
Bucks possess plenty of promise with Greg Monroe, now they need …
The pluck and promise of the Milwaukee Bucks has been made tangible. Greg Monroe, a 24-year-old big man in the max contract market, ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
Steve Cishek trade analysis: Why did the St. Louis Cardinals add a …
This includes the likes of Daniel Descalso (there's no way to pluck out position players who pitched in blowouts). So far in 2015, 459 players ... «Viva El Birdos, Jul 15»
In 'Vacation', Rusty is no Clark, but it's still a great trip with the …
Helms' Rusty has all the pluck but none of the sex appeal, an element that is glaringly missing from Vacation, particularly during a winning ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
How powerful is the most popular girl in the sixth grade? Think back
How triumphant is the most popular girl in your sixth grade? Could you pluck her name immediately from your memory banks? Are you already ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
Confronting Tragedy with Comedy with Naomi Ekperigin
So yeah, I had my day job and I was trying to do that well and was like, “Well, if someone decides to pluck me from obscurity I'll go that way. «Splitsider, Jul 15»
South Hadley's arts, music festival keeps on growing
She showed them which fret to place a finger on and then which string to pluck: “That's a 'C,'” she said. Jillian and Brendan Scott, both 5, were ... «GazetteNET, Jul 15»
Arsenal transfer news: Is Arsene Wenger right when he says Arsenal …
Be it Karim Benzema, Alexandre Lacazette, Robert Lewandowski or any other name you care you pluck out of some European club, the ... «Metro, Jul 15»
No matter how you slice them, tomatoes are taste of summer
... someone figures out how to ship the thin-skinned, lush and juicy tomatoes that we pluck from vines in our backyards or buy at local markets. «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jul 15»
Why we're probably stuck with our hopeless system of cartel politics
Today they compete with each other in a game of Assembly Collapse Bingo, in which they pluck dates at random and nominate them as the ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jul 15»
Could the 'Pluck-Ness' monster really be a terrapin?
A still from Kyle's video of the creature in the Pluck and, right, a terrapin. VIEW GALLERY. Could the 'Pluck-Ness' monster really be a terrapin? «South Wales Evening Post, Jul 15»
