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-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:
+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>
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 They ''shall constitute''   |  They ''are''<br>
-On the other hand it suffers from sounding very pompous and quite dim.
+On the other hand it is an execrable verb. Worse, even than [[to be]]. Using it makes one sound pompous and quite dim.
+{{plainenglish}}