insists
Sayin-SISTS/ɪnˈsɪsts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of insist.
The manager insists that all reports be submitted by Friday.
My grandmother insists on cooking every dish from scratch.
Note
The -s form carries both meanings of insist, and the verb in the that-clause tells them apart. When she insists that he is honest, she is making a claim, and the clause stays ordinary. When a manager insists that reports be submitted, it is a demand, and the clause takes the bare subjunctive: be, not are. With on, it takes a noun or an -ing form: insists on cooking.
insists is a form of insist
insist, verb: To demand repeatedly that something happen or be done, restating the demand and refusing to drop it despite requests to give it up. Full entry
- Spelling
- insist → insists: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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