CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SOFT-SOAP
PRESENT
Present
I soft-soap
you soft-soap
he/she/it soft-soaps
we soft-soap
you soft-soap
they soft-soap
Present continuous
I am soft-soaping
you are soft-soaping
he/she/it is soft-soaping
we are soft-soaping
you are soft-soaping
they are soft-soaping
Present perfect
I have soft-soaped
you have soft-soaped
he/she/it has soft-soaped
we have soft-soaped
you have soft-soaped
they have soft-soaped
Present perfect continuous
I have been soft-soaping
you have been soft-soaping
he/she/it has been soft-soaping
we have been soft-soaping
you have been soft-soaping
they have been soft-soaping
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 soft-soaped
you soft-soaped
he/she/it soft-soaped
we soft-soaped
you soft-soaped
they soft-soaped
Past continuous
I was soft-soaping
you were soft-soaping
he/she/it was soft-soaping
we were soft-soaping
you were soft-soaping
they were soft-soaping
Past perfect
I had soft-soaped
you had soft-soaped
he/she/it had soft-soaped
we had soft-soaped
you had soft-soaped
they had soft-soaped
Past perfect continuous
I had been soft-soaping
you had been soft-soaping
he/she/it had been soft-soaping
we had been soft-soaping
you had been soft-soaping
they had been soft-soaping
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will soft-soap
you will soft-soap
he/she/it will soft-soap
we will soft-soap
you will soft-soap
they will soft-soap
Future continuous
I will be soft-soaping
you will be soft-soaping
he/she/it will be soft-soaping
we will be soft-soaping
you will be soft-soaping
they will be soft-soaping
Future perfect
I will have soft-soaped
you will have soft-soaped
he/she/it will have soft-soaped
we will have soft-soaped
you will have soft-soaped
they will have soft-soaped
Future perfect continuous
I will have been soft-soaping
you will have been soft-soaping
he/she/it will have been soft-soaping
we will have been soft-soaping
you will have been soft-soaping
they will have been soft-soaping
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would soft-soap
you would soft-soap
he/she/it would soft-soap
we would soft-soap
you would soft-soap
they would soft-soap
Conditional continuous
I would be soft-soaping
you would be soft-soaping
he/she/it would be soft-soaping
we would be soft-soaping
you would be soft-soaping
they would be soft-soaping
Conditional perfect
I would have soft-soap
you would have soft-soap
he/she/it would have soft-soap
we would have soft-soap
you would have soft-soap
they would have soft-soap
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been soft-soaping
you would have been soft-soaping
he/she/it would have been soft-soaping
we would have been soft-soaping
you would have been soft-soaping
they would have been soft-soaping
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you soft-soap
we let´s soft-soap
you soft-soap
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
soft-soaped
Present Participle
soft-soaping
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 «SOFT-SOAP»
Discover the use of
soft-soap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
soft-soap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of ...
Soft Soap, Hard Sell is for the reader interested in the history of social trends and American popular culture.
2
The
Soap Maker's Handbook of Materials, Processes and ...
Definition of the term soft soap; Principal fatty substances employed in the
manufacture of soft soap; Care in the preparation of lyes . 321 Quantity of lye
required for saponification; Varieties of soft soap . . 322 Smooth transparent soft
soap, and ...
William Theodore Brannt, Carl Deite, Alwin Engelhardt, 1912
3
The Handbook of
Soap Manufacture
When the quantities have been added, steam is admitted and saponification
proceeds. (C) Treatment of Fat with Indefinite Amount of Alkali and no Separation
of Waste Lye.—Soft soap is representative of this class. The vegetable fluid oils ...
W.H. Simmons & H.A. Appleton
Due Soft soap is available from most pottery suppliers and is known as 'potter's
size'. It normally requires diluting with water using 50% soap and 50% water.
New plaster will stick to old plaster unless a seal or barrier is created on the
surface ...
5
A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of
Soap and Candles ...
FACE Characteristics and composition of soft soaps 4S4 Smooth transparent soft
«oap 423 Proportion of soda lye used with potash lye for soft soap : Experiments
of f/rcve and Centele ; Formula for calculating the yield of soft soap with the use ...
William Theodore Brannt, Carl Deite, Alwin Engelhardt, 1888
6
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine
In the city of London, there were made 627,209 lbs. of silicated soap, 40,699,297
lbs. of other hard soap, and 791,470 lbs. of soft soap; thus making a grand total,
for England, of 2,478,612 lbs. of silicated soap; 156,406,035 lbs. of other hard ...
7
Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United ...
Soft Soap, Twenty Barrels and upwards. Ten Barrel*. Three Frames, or less than
Six Frames, and (hall not cleanse and take the whole of the Soap boiled and
made in such Copper, Pan or Vessel, from and out of the same within the Space
of ...
III., 333) points out that the genuine soft soap shouldibe made from linseed oil
and potash, and that in soft soaps thus prepared all the glycerine is retained. He
further states that the endeavor to recover this glycerine has led to the production
of ...
9
The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
The quantity made in Scotland, during the some period, was 127,740 lbs. of
silicated, 10,890,515 lbs. of other hard, and 5,251,151 lbs. of soft soap. The
principal towns for the manufacture of silicated soap appear to be Liverpool,
Norwich, ...
10
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer
Officer to charge lor material* (ribing. out of any vessel, &c. which shall contain 20
barrels or 5,1 201bs. of soft soap, or more, and shall not cleanse and take the
whole of the soap boiled and made in such vessel, &c. out of the same within the
...
Richard Burn, Sir George Chetwynd, 1820
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT-SOAP»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
soft-soap is used in the context of the following news items.
Alan Jones hits Stephen Dank with the soft soap
This week, as witness his embarrassingly soft-soap interview, Jones has been siding with Stephen Dank of Cronulla/Essendon fame. As he does in most such ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
Revolution by Russell Brand review – soft-soap therapy when we …
But his revolution reads like soft-soap therapy where what's needed is something with a harder edge. Brand himself created the space and the appetite for that. «The Guardian, Oct 14»
Ed Miliband's school of hard knocks gets the soft-soap treatment
I went to a comprehensive. Himself went to public school. He knows things I don't know. He knows the names of African rivers, he knows gerunds and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 12»
Don't Soft-Soap SOPA
Regulators around the world are always looking for new ways to assert their authority. Take two related and deeply flawed pieces of U.S. legislation that would ... «Forbes, Jan 12»
