... to act as a deterrent to those students who are considering engaging in inappropriate behavior. 3. It is certainly a true statement that bears repeating over and over again that technological ... verbs.Using State - of - Being VerbsState - of - being verbs are all the forms of be: am, is, are, was, were, and so on. State - of - being verbs don’t do as much as action verbs to move meaning. ... meaning. In our train - of - thought analogy, state - of - being verbs are very tiny wheels, in capable of moving big thoughts quickly or easily. If you have only trivial things to say, by all means,...