a verb is anything that ends in -ing...
...and ONLY anything that ends in -ing.
"the only way, well not the only way, for a nation to grow is that a nation takes ideas from another nation. for example the crusaders came from europe and took ideas from america. even though it was the middle age, the *french still copied our way of doing certain things. the crusaders came over and saw that we had books and teachers helping students, and they took that back to europe and that's how europe started growing.
*(not only the french other european countries)
[sic]
~and scene
"the only way, well not the only way, for a nation to grow is that a nation takes ideas from another nation. for example the crusaders came from europe and took ideas from america. even though it was the middle age, the *french still copied our way of doing certain things. the crusaders came over and saw that we had books and teachers helping students, and they took that back to europe and that's how europe started growing.
*(not only the french other european countries)
[sic]
~and scene