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A legal way of saying "is". It scores over [[to be]] in that it is highly regular: the different forms require no conjugation:
A legal way of saying “is”. It scores over [[to be]] in that it is highly regular: the different forms of a given tense require no conjugation:


I ''shall constitute''  |  I ''am''<br>  
I ''shall constitute''  |  I ''am''<br>  
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They ''shall constitute''  |  They ''are''<br>
They ''shall constitute''  |  They ''are''<br>


On the other hand it suffers from sounding quite pompous and rather dim.
On the other hand it suffers from sounding very pompous and quite dim.

Revision as of 15:32, 14 October 2016

A legal way of saying “is”. It scores over to be in that it is highly regular: the different forms of a given tense require no conjugation:

I shall constitute | I am
You shall constitute | You are
He, she or it shall constitute | He, she or it is
We shall constitute | we are
You shall constitute | You are
They shall constitute | They are

On the other hand it suffers from sounding very pompous and quite dim.