My couch reeks of urine!

Hi,

Can anyone tell me… in the sentence “My couch reeks of urine”, reek is a verb, right?

xie xie :slight_smile:

I have no idea, but I haven’t seen (or heard) the word reek for a while. I’m glad it’s still in circulation.

Reeks=smells

If smells can be a verb then so should reeks, but lets get one of the grammarians to chime in and make sure that is right, just seems logical.

Yep, ‘reek’ is the verb - an intransitive verb, if I remember my grammatical gobbledygook correctly.

Back to the sofa. What to do? Bomb it! :wink:

And try going to the toilet next time you need to tinkle.

Reeks is an intransitive verb as evidenced by the fact that a preposition is required between it and the following noun. It would be pretty easy to mistake it for a linking verb in which case the transitive/intransitive distinction would make no sense. However linking verbs may be followed by adjectives, such as “good” in the sentence “This smells good.” I hardly think anyone is likely to say anything like “This reeks good.” They might say “This reeks bad” but I think that this is a case of bad being used as an adverb.

Look three posts up. :wink:

Next time, avoid drinking water an hour before crashing. Or get a dog to blame it on.

Alcholic “Pringle Effect” (‘Once you pop, you can’t stop’) + Too much weed = My couch reeks of urine!

Just vomit on the sofa. The urine smell won’t be noticeable.

You might want to take some leeks to the sofa as well. :slight_smile:

My god yes “reeks” is the verb. Please tell me this question came from an E.S.L. student and not a university grad :astonished:

Speaking of couches reeking of urine, a 480-pounds woman in Florida died after emergency workers tried to remove her from her couch.

“Unable to separate the skin of the 39-year-old woman from her sofa, 12 Martin County Fire-Rescue workers slid both onto a trailer and hauled her behind a pickup to Martin Memorial Hospital South. She died a short time later.”

“Inside the home, the floor and walls were matted with feces, and trash was strewn across the floors, some which were bare concrete. Furniture was toppled, and pictures were knocked off walls.”

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thats sad… apparently she died still attached to the couch at the hostpital

Ah gee lets take a moment. Group! Time for hugs!

i hope she wasnt a buddhist. that would be the worst way to die, having been physically attached to a material object for 6 years…