Talk:Elizabeth Plimpton/@comment-760571-20160122124154

Dr. Sheldon Cooper, PhD, would say:

The word "author" is a noun, not a verb.

I'll explain in more detail, for the benefit of those who neither have a US PhD in literature, nor did their primary school in Continental Europe.

(No offense: because of the XII Century vowel shift in the English language, English-speaking kids are forced to spend their primary school on learning the spelling of words, one by one; whereas, Continental-European kids need only the first year of primary school to learn the spelling of their language, after which they are taught grammar.)

Back to the main subject, the word "author" being a noun, it means that it's correct to write or say "an author, many authors". Since it's not a verb, it would be wrong to say or write, e.g. "he authors" or "she authored". A verb expresses an action. The action performed by the author of a book is expressed, for example, by the verb "write".

I'M NOT A JERK, I'M JUST HAVING FUN WRITING THE WAY SHELDON WOULD DO!!!