CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WET-NURSE
PRESENT
Present
I wet-nurse
you wet-nurse
he/she/it wet-nurses
we wet-nurse
you wet-nurse
they wet-nurse
Present continuous
I am wet-nursing
you are wet-nursing
he/she/it is wet-nursing
we are wet-nursing
you are wet-nursing
they are wet-nursing
Present perfect
I have wet-nursed
you have wet-nursed
he/she/it has wet-nursed
we have wet-nursed
you have wet-nursed
they have wet-nursed
Present perfect continuous
I have been wet-nursing
you have been wet-nursing
he/she/it has been wet-nursing
we have been wet-nursing
you have been wet-nursing
they have been wet-nursing
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 wet-nursed
you wet-nursed
he/she/it wet-nursed
we wet-nursed
you wet-nursed
they wet-nursed
Past continuous
I was wet-nursing
you were wet-nursing
he/she/it was wet-nursing
we were wet-nursing
you were wet-nursing
they were wet-nursing
Past perfect
I had wet-nursed
you had wet-nursed
he/she/it had wet-nursed
we had wet-nursed
you had wet-nursed
they had wet-nursed
Past perfect continuous
I had been wet-nursing
you had been wet-nursing
he/she/it had been wet-nursing
we had been wet-nursing
you had been wet-nursing
they had been wet-nursing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will wet-nurse
you will wet-nurse
he/she/it will wet-nurse
we will wet-nurse
you will wet-nurse
they will wet-nurse
Future continuous
I will be wet-nursing
you will be wet-nursing
he/she/it will be wet-nursing
we will be wet-nursing
you will be wet-nursing
they will be wet-nursing
Future perfect
I will have wet-nursed
you will have wet-nursed
he/she/it will have wet-nursed
we will have wet-nursed
you will have wet-nursed
they will have wet-nursed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been wet-nursing
you will have been wet-nursing
he/she/it will have been wet-nursing
we will have been wet-nursing
you will have been wet-nursing
they will have been wet-nursing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would wet-nurse
you would wet-nurse
he/she/it would wet-nurse
we would wet-nurse
you would wet-nurse
they would wet-nurse
Conditional continuous
I would be wet-nursing
you would be wet-nursing
he/she/it would be wet-nursing
we would be wet-nursing
you would be wet-nursing
they would be wet-nursing
Conditional perfect
I would have wet-nurse
you would have wet-nurse
he/she/it would have wet-nurse
we would have wet-nurse
you would have wet-nurse
they would have wet-nurse
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been wet-nursing
you would have been wet-nursing
he/she/it would have been wet-nursing
we would have been wet-nursing
you would have been wet-nursing
they would have been wet-nursing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you wet-nurse
we let´s wet-nurse
you wet-nurse
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
wet-nursed
Present Participle
wet-nursing
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.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WET-NURSE»
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wet-nurse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wet-nurse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Losing her baby when the child's father sells the infant to a wealthy woman, plucky Susan of Victorian England convinces the adoptive mother to hire her as a wet nurse and discovers that her employer's home hides sinister secrets. Reprint.
A debut novel set in Victorian England with a delightfully cheeky heroine who will have everyone talking.
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Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting
The first problem is the health of the wet-nurse. A letter writer is worried about a
baby boy and advises: "If you observe that her breast is not good, give the boy to
another wet-nurse".79 An entry in chapter 40 of the Diagnostic Handbook is a ...
Marten Stol, F. A. M. Wiggermann, 2000
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Women in Ugarit and Israel: Their Social and Religious ...
so, he has to pay her 10 shekels of silver to cover the costs.71 CH § 194 deals
with malpractice of the wet nurse (museniqtu), If a man gives his son to a wet
nurse and that child then dies while in the care of the wet nurse, and the wet
nurse ...
5
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Wet-nursing practices created a new set of circumstances, since the wet nurse
was not a member of the infant's family, and her circumstances could change and
influence the duration of her employment. We shall now turn to examine the wet ...
Elisheva Baumgarten, 2013
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A Social History of
Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to ...
Still, like the medical authorities she cited, Tyler advised employing a wet nurse
temporarily if the mother was unable to satisfy the hunger of her newborn or
permanently if the mother could not nurse at all.1 Little had changed in the
rhetoric of ...
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Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of ...
second child had been rescued from the ill effects of artificial food by the milk of a
wet nurse — agreed that "it would seem superfluous to look for even average
mental or moral qualification in persons of the class that furnish wet nurses.
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The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial ...
When a woman was chosen, her own child would be fed by another wet nurse
specially selected for that purpose. Wet nurses tended to be fairly young — in
one list of seventy-two candidates, the average age was slightly over thirty-one
sui ...
9
THE JEWISH DARK CONTINENT
Do people look for a wet nurse from a good family because they believe that the
milk will have an effect on the child's character?107 227. Did it used to happen
that people hired an unmarried girl as a wet nurse? Does it often happen now?
Nathaniel Deutsch, S An-Ski, 2011
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"To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980
dietary social climbing — the wet nurse's presumed craving for expensive foods.
If Mrs. Workman's experiences were typical, it would seem that wet nurses did not
covet their employer's larder so much as they wished to eat as they pleased.
Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, 1987
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WET-NURSE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
wet-nurse is used in the context of the following news items.
Dominant Meerkats Commit Infanticide, Force Bereaved Mothers to …
... subordinate females are then also more likely to wet-nurse the dominant female's pups. This suggests to us that infanticide by the dominant female might have ... «Nature World News, Oct 13»
I Breastfed 3 Babies Besides My Own
There will always be women, like me, who are proud and honored to direct-nurse, wet-nurse, co-nurse, or milk-share. It's our milk, and until the FDA develops a ... «Babble, Feb 11»
The return of the wet-nurse
She was contacted through her local breast-feeding support network, who were seeking a mother to wet nurse the baby girl because she had refused to take ... «Daily Mail, Sep 07»
