Welcome to Prefer Verbs over Nouns! Throughout this lesson, we’ll be showing you examples on-screen, some of which won’t be narrated. Please pause the video as needed to read and understand them.

Let’s begin with a brief word about conciseness. In a commencement speech at Binghamton University, Owen Pell, a leading dispute resolution attorney, suggested that a Twenty-First Century alternative to a law school graduation might be simply to email a degree certificate to each graduate, and to...