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Conjugation shell conjugation
How do you conjugate shell?
shell · verb
Present I shell
Positive I shell
Singular
1st person I shell
2nd person you shell
3rd person he/she/it shells
Plural
1st person we shell
2nd person you shell
3rd person they shell
Negative I don't shell
Singular
1st person I don't shell I do not shell
2nd person you don't shell you do not shell
3rd person he/she/it doesn't shell he/she/it does not shell
Plural
1st person we don't shell we do not shell
2nd person you don't shell you do not shell
3rd person they don't shell they do not shell
Question do I shell?
Singular
1st person do I shell?
2nd person do you shell?
3rd person does he/she/it shell?
Plural
1st person do we shell?
2nd person do you shell?
3rd person do they shell?
Negative question don't I shell?
Singular
1st person don't I shell? do I not shell?
2nd person don't you shell? do you not shell?
3rd person doesn't he/she/it shell? does he/she/it not shell?
Plural
1st person don't we shell? do we not shell?
2nd person don't you shell? do you not shell?
3rd person don't they shell? do they not shell?
Past I shelled
Positive I shelled
Singular
1st person I shelled
2nd person you shelled
3rd person he/she/it shelled
Plural
1st person we shelled
2nd person you shelled
3rd person they shelled
Negative I didn't shell
Singular
1st person I didn't shell I did not shell
2nd person you didn't shell you did not shell
3rd person he/she/it didn't shell he/she/it did not shell
Plural
1st person we didn't shell we did not shell
2nd person you didn't shell you did not shell
3rd person they didn't shell they did not shell
Question did I shell?
Singular
1st person did I shell?
2nd person did you shell?
3rd person did he/she/it shell?
Plural
1st person did we shell?
2nd person did you shell?
3rd person did they shell?
Negative question didn't I shell?
Singular
1st person didn't I shell? did I not shell?
2nd person didn't you shell? did you not shell?
3rd person didn't he/she/it shell? did he/she/it not shell?
Plural
1st person didn't we shell? did we not shell?
2nd person didn't you shell? did you not shell?
3rd person didn't they shell? did they not shell?
Future I'll shell
Positive I'll shell
Singular
1st person I'll shell I will shell
2nd person you'll shell you will shell
3rd person he/she/it'll shell he/she/it will shell
Plural
1st person we'll shell we will shell
2nd person you'll shell you will shell
3rd person they'll shell they will shell
Negative I won't shell
Singular
1st person I won't shell I will not shell
2nd person you won't shell you will not shell
3rd person he/she/it won't shell he/she/it will not shell
Plural
1st person we won't shell we will not shell
2nd person you won't shell you will not shell
3rd person they won't shell they will not shell
Question will I shell?
Singular
1st person will I shell?
2nd person will you shell?
3rd person will he/she/it shell?
Plural
1st person will we shell?
2nd person will you shell?
3rd person will they shell?
Negative question won't I shell?
Singular
1st person won't I shell? will I not shell?
2nd person won't you shell? will you not shell?
3rd person won't he/she/it shell? will he/she/it not shell?
Plural
1st person won't we shell? will we not shell?
2nd person won't you shell? will you not shell?
3rd person won't they shell? will they not shell?
Conditional I'd shell
Positive I'd shell
Singular
1st person I'd shell I would shell
2nd person you'd shell you would shell
3rd person he/she/it'd shell he/she/it would shell
Plural
1st person we'd shell we would shell
2nd person you'd shell you would shell
3rd person they'd shell they would shell
Negative I wouldn't shell
Singular
1st person I wouldn't shell I would not shell
2nd person you wouldn't shell you would not shell
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't shell he/she/it would not shell
Plural
1st person we wouldn't shell we would not shell
2nd person you wouldn't shell you would not shell
3rd person they wouldn't shell they would not shell
Question would I shell?
Singular
1st person would I shell?
2nd person would you shell?
3rd person would he/she/it shell?
Plural
1st person would we shell?
2nd person would you shell?
3rd person would they shell?
Negative question wouldn't I shell?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I shell? would I not shell?
2nd person wouldn't you shell? would you not shell?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it shell? would he/she/it not shell?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we shell? would we not shell?
2nd person wouldn't you shell? would you not shell?
3rd person wouldn't they shell? would they not shell?
Present continuous I'm shelling
Positive I'm shelling
Singular
1st person I'm shelling I am shelling
2nd person you're shelling you are shelling
3rd person he/she/it's shelling he/she/it is shelling
Plural
1st person we're shelling we are shelling
2nd person you're shelling you are shelling
3rd person they're shelling they are shelling
Negative I'm not shelling
Singular
1st person I'm not shelling I am not shelling
2nd person you aren't shelling you're not shelling you are not shelling
3rd person he/she/it isn't shelling he/she/it's not shelling he/she/it is not shelling
Plural
1st person we aren't shelling we're not shelling we are not shelling
2nd person you aren't shelling you're not shelling you are not shelling
3rd person they aren't shelling they're not shelling they are not shelling
Question am I shelling?
Singular
1st person am I shelling?
2nd person are you shelling?
3rd person is he/she/it shelling?
Plural
1st person are we shelling?
2nd person are you shelling?
3rd person are they shelling?
Negative question aren't I shelling?
Singular
1st person aren't I shelling? am I not shelling?
2nd person aren't you shelling? are you not shelling?
3rd person isn't he/she/it shelling? is he/she/it not shelling?
Plural
1st person aren't we shelling? are we not shelling?
2nd person aren't you shelling? are you not shelling?
3rd person aren't they shelling? are they not shelling?
Past continuous I was shelling
Positive I was shelling
Singular
1st person I was shelling
2nd person you were shelling
3rd person he/she/it was shelling
Plural
1st person we were shelling
2nd person you were shelling
3rd person they were shelling
Negative I wasn't shelling
Singular
1st person I wasn't shelling I was not shelling
2nd person you weren't shelling you were not shelling
3rd person he/she/it wasn't shelling he/she/it was not shelling
Plural
1st person we weren't shelling we were not shelling
2nd person you weren't shelling you were not shelling
3rd person they weren't shelling they were not shelling
Question was I shelling?
Singular
1st person was I shelling?
2nd person were you shelling?
3rd person was he/she/it shelling?
Plural
1st person were we shelling?
2nd person were you shelling?
3rd person were they shelling?
Negative question wasn't I shelling?
Singular
1st person wasn't I shelling? was I not shelling?
2nd person weren't you shelling? were you not shelling?
3rd person wasn't he/she/it shelling? was he/she/it not shelling?
Plural
1st person weren't we shelling? were we not shelling?
2nd person weren't you shelling? were you not shelling?
3rd person weren't they shelling? were they not shelling?
Future continuous I'll be shelling
Positive I'll be shelling
Singular
1st person I'll be shelling I will be shelling
2nd person you'll be shelling you will be shelling
3rd person he/she/it'll be shelling he/she/it will be shelling
Plural
1st person we'll be shelling we will be shelling
2nd person you'll be shelling you will be shelling
3rd person they'll be shelling they will be shelling
Negative I won't be shelling
Singular
1st person I won't be shelling I will not be shelling
2nd person you won't be shelling you will not be shelling
3rd person he/she/it won't be shelling he/she/it will not be shelling
Plural
1st person we won't be shelling we will not be shelling
2nd person you won't be shelling you will not be shelling
3rd person they won't be shelling they will not be shelling
Question will I be shelling?
Singular
1st person will I be shelling?
2nd person will you be shelling?
3rd person will he/she/it be shelling?
Plural
1st person will we be shelling?
2nd person will you be shelling?
3rd person will they be shelling?
Negative question won't I be shelling?
Singular
1st person won't I be shelling? will I not be shelling?
2nd person won't you be shelling? will you not be shelling?
3rd person won't he/she/it be shelling? will he/she/it not be shelling?
Plural
1st person won't we be shelling? will we not be shelling?
2nd person won't you be shelling? will you not be shelling?
3rd person won't they be shelling? will they not be shelling?
Conditional continuous I'd be shelling
Positive I'd be shelling
Singular
1st person I'd be shelling I would be shelling
2nd person you'd be shelling you would be shelling
3rd person he/she/it'd be shelling he/she/it would be shelling
Plural
1st person we'd be shelling we would be shelling
2nd person you'd be shelling you would be shelling
3rd person they'd be shelling they would be shelling
Negative I wouldn't be shelling
Singular
1st person I wouldn't be shelling I would not be shelling
2nd person you wouldn't be shelling you would not be shelling
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't be shelling he/she/it would not be shelling
Plural
1st person we wouldn't be shelling we would not be shelling
2nd person you wouldn't be shelling you would not be shelling
3rd person they wouldn't be shelling they would not be shelling
Question would I be shelling?
Singular
1st person would I be shelling?
2nd person would you be shelling?
3rd person would he/she/it be shelling?
Plural
1st person would we be shelling?
2nd person would you be shelling?
3rd person would they be shelling?
Negative question wouldn't I be shelling?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I be shelling? would I not be shelling?
2nd person wouldn't you be shelling? would you not be shelling?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it be shelling? would he/she/it not be shelling?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we be shelling? would we not be shelling?
2nd person wouldn't you be shelling? would you not be shelling?
3rd person wouldn't they be shelling? would they not be shelling?
Present perfect I've shelled
Positive I've shelled
Singular
1st person I've shelled I have shelled
2nd person you've shelled you have shelled
3rd person he/she/it's shelled he/she/it has shelled
Plural
1st person we've shelled we have shelled
2nd person you've shelled you have shelled
3rd person they've shelled they have shelled
Negative I haven't shelled
Singular
1st person I haven't shelled I have not shelled
2nd person you haven't shelled you have not shelled
3rd person he/she/it hasn't shelled he/she/it has not shelled
Plural
1st person we haven't shelled we have not shelled
2nd person you haven't shelled you have not shelled
3rd person they haven't shelled they have not shelled
Question have I shelled?
Singular
1st person have I shelled?
2nd person have you shelled?
3rd person has he/she/it shelled?
Plural
1st person have we shelled?
2nd person have you shelled?
3rd person have they shelled?
Negative question haven't I shelled?
Singular
1st person haven't I shelled? have I not shelled?
2nd person haven't you shelled? have you not shelled?
3rd person hasn't he/she/it shelled? has he/she/it not shelled?
Plural
1st person haven't we shelled? have we not shelled?
2nd person haven't you shelled? have you not shelled?
3rd person haven't they shelled? have they not shelled?
Past perfect I had shelled
Positive I had shelled
Singular
1st person I had shelled
2nd person you had shelled
3rd person he/she/it had shelled
Plural
1st person we had shelled
2nd person you had shelled
3rd person they had shelled
Negative I hadn't shelled
Singular
1st person I hadn't shelled I had not shelled
2nd person you hadn't shelled you had not shelled
3rd person he/she/it hadn't shelled he/she/it had not shelled
Plural
1st person we hadn't shelled we had not shelled
2nd person you hadn't shelled you had not shelled
3rd person they hadn't shelled they had not shelled
Question had I shelled?
Singular
1st person had I shelled?
2nd person had you shelled?
3rd person had he/she/it shelled?
Plural
1st person had we shelled?
2nd person had you shelled?
3rd person had they shelled?
Negative question hadn't I shelled?
Singular
1st person hadn't I shelled? had I not shelled?
2nd person hadn't you shelled? had you not shelled?
3rd person hadn't he/she/it shelled? had he/she/it not shelled?
Plural
1st person hadn't we shelled? had we not shelled?
2nd person hadn't you shelled? had you not shelled?
3rd person hadn't they shelled? had they not shelled?
Future perfect I'll have shelled
Positive I'll have shelled
Singular
1st person I'll have shelled I will have shelled
2nd person you'll have shelled you will have shelled
3rd person he/she/it'll have shelled he/she/it will have shelled
Plural
1st person we'll have shelled we will have shelled
2nd person you'll have shelled you will have shelled
3rd person they'll have shelled they will have shelled
Negative I won't have shelled
Singular
1st person I won't have shelled I will not have shelled
2nd person you won't have shelled you will not have shelled
3rd person he/she/it won't have shelled he/she/it will not have shelled
Plural
1st person we won't have shelled we will not have shelled
2nd person you won't have shelled you will not have shelled
3rd person they won't have shelled they will not have shelled
Question +'ll I have shelled?
Singular
1st person +'ll I have shelled? will I have shelled?
2nd person +'ll you have shelled? will you have shelled?
3rd person +'ll he/she/it have shelled? will he/she/it have shelled?
Plural
1st person +'ll we have shelled? will we have shelled?
2nd person +'ll you have shelled? will you have shelled?
3rd person +'ll they have shelled? will they have shelled?
Negative question won't I have shelled?
Singular
1st person won't I have shelled? will I not have shelled?
2nd person won't you have shelled? will you not have shelled?
3rd person won't he/she/it have shelled? will he/she/it not have shelled?
Plural
1st person won't we have shelled? will we not have shelled?
2nd person won't you have shelled? will you not have shelled?
3rd person won't they have shelled? will they not have shelled?
Conditional perfect I'd have shelled
Positive I'd have shelled
Singular
1st person I'd have shelled I would have shelled
2nd person you'd have shelled you would have shelled
3rd person he/she/it'd have shelled he/she/it would have shelled
Plural
1st person we'd have shelled we would have shelled
2nd person you'd have shelled you would have shelled
3rd person they'd have shelled they would have shelled
Negative I wouldn't have shelled
Singular
1st person I wouldn't have shelled I would not have shelled
2nd person you wouldn't have shelled you would not have shelled
3rd person he/she/it wouldn't have shelled he/she/it would not have shelled
Plural
1st person we wouldn't have shelled we would not have shelled
2nd person you wouldn't have shelled you would not have shelled
3rd person they wouldn't have shelled they would not have shelled
Question would I have shelled?
Singular
1st person would I have shelled?
2nd person would you have shelled?
3rd person would he/she/it have shelled?
Plural
1st person would we have shelled?
2nd person would you have shelled?
3rd person would they have shelled?
Negative question wouldn't I have shelled?
Singular
1st person wouldn't I have shelled? would I not have shelled?
2nd person wouldn't you have shelled? would you not have shelled?
3rd person wouldn't he/she/it have shelled? would he/she/it not have shelled?
Plural
1st person wouldn't we have shelled? would we not have shelled?
2nd person wouldn't you have shelled? would you not have shelled?
3rd person wouldn't they have shelled? would they not have shelled?
Imperative shell!
Positive
you shell!
we let's shell!
Negative
you don't shell!
we let's not shell!
Examples shell examples
How do I use shell in a sentence?
Simple sentences
I'd never wear a shell suit.
A snail's shell is spiral in form.
She's only a shell of her former self.
He became a shell of his former self.
The eaglet is halfway out of its shell.
Tom tried to get Mary to come out of her shell.
For we are but the shell and the leaf: the great death which each man has in himself, that is the fruit around which everything revolves.
I found a beautiful shell on the shore.
Shell after shell smashed into the fort.
What I'm holding in my hands is a fossilized shell.
She became a shell of her former self.
Mary was completely shell-shocked after Tom dressed her down for being late for the meeting.
Tom owns a shell company in the British Virgin Islands.
As a lark, Tom bought Mary a plastic-grass hula skirt and a coconut-shell bra, momentarily forgetting that her opportunities to wear this colourful get-up would be somewhat limited.
Movie subtitles
A number of gunners are pushing the shell up an incline into the mouth of the gun.
Everyone is waiting for the signal which starts the shell on its voyage.
The gun is fired and the shell disappears into space.
The shell comes down with a crash.
At last, the astronomers have found the shell and quickly shut themselves in the interior.
He rushes to the rope which hangs from the point of the shell and letting himself slide down the rope he gives it an impetus which causes the shell to fall off the edge of the moon.
The shell falls with sickening rapidity.
The shell balances and thanks to the hermetically sealed air in its interior rises slowly to the surface.
The shell is picked up by a steamer which tows it to port.
Now, you're gonna see some shell fire, and you're gonna be scared, see?
That kind of shell you don't have to pay much attention to.
It is thy dead shell.
The shapes between the trees, resembling the shell of some mythical animal are just the roof tiles of the village.
I want to play some more of that shell game.
He's a shell of his former self, which nobody can deny.
I expect shell be down presently.
One shell empty.
And for a shell an empty, glittering husk she must give up all that a woman holds most dear.
Defective shell.
A mere empty shell.
I wonder why I put that shell in my gun.
Because I suspect that under that cynical shell you're at heart a sentimentalist.
Make mine on the half-shell.
He was picked up by the Germans. in a shell hole near Arras in 1917. close to death and with no means of identification.
Since a shell hole in France, and that was three years ago.
The shell's opened up the well.
They've got to shell us too!
Open fire immediately and shell the line.
Nor were we under the shell fire of grenades. and still we are soldiers.
Shell some peas.
Nothing. My palm looks like an oyster shell.
During the late war, when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln and General Phil Sheridan, well sir I fought 'mid shock and shell and cannon roar.
I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
Because, my dear Ricky, I suspect that under that cynical shell you are at heart a sentimentalist.
Nothing on land, in the air, on the sea, or under the sea shell prevent our complete and final victory.
Just drop a hint that his wife might find out about this apartment and he'll shell out fast.
But I never saw a Jap or heard a shell coming at me.
News and current affairs
For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.
Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.
But the Stability Pact is merely a shell - it needs to be filled with content.
Without a sense of civic and political community, democracy becomes a hollow shell of itself, and can become dangerous as it is no longer controlled by rooted values.
The shell of what remains continues to challenge the company's fate, notably in a Houston, Texas courtroom.
By contrast, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's approach is another example of the kind of shell games that got America into its mess.
This also applies to such artifacts of modern humans as personal ornaments, with recently discovered shell beads dated at 75,000 years ago.
Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, described the global map of major shale oil and gas deposits.
Shell telah meningkatkan investasi dalam teknologi carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) untuk menguji apakah penggunaan bahan bakar fosil dapat dibuat menjadi aman melalui penangkapan CO2 agar tidak lepas ke atmosfir.
The union itself is a shell of its own former self, a partisan and mostly right-wing movement of workers buffeted by the new economic reality.
By making it harder for individuals to hide behind shell companies, such regulation would make illicit financial flows significantly more difficult to accomplish - and much easier to spot.
In other words, Hezbollah's survival strategy partly depends on the protective shell of a rickety Lebanese state.
Among foreign investors, both Shell and TNK-BP are being pushed out by Gazprom in their main gas fields in Russia.
American newspapers now report that former Shell Oil CEO Philip Carroll will be appointed as the US czar of Iraqi oil.
Perusahaan-perusahaan seperti Total, ENI, Statoil, dan Shell mendukung metode carbon price (seperti sistem pajak atau perizinan) untuk mempercepat transisi menuju energi rendah karbon dan mulai melakukan persiapan internal.
The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.
In the nineteenth century, when the Tunisian craft guilds failed to adapt to industrialization, they became irrelevant, and the amins, or guild masters, were left as figureheads in shell institutions.
Instead of providing resolute leadership in the global financial and economic crisis, the European Union's largest economy is withdrawing into its shell.
And, for all its high-flown language, the UfM is an empty shell.
For decades our world existed under a shell of bipolarity, with two power blocs opposing each other on values, ideas and political convictions.
Under that shell, however, there was change.
Now Russianness itself seems to lack a secure foundation, for it is but a hollow shell of discarded state symbols.
Foreign ministries translated that idea into the Stability Pact, but finance ministers refused to finance it, so the pact remained an empty shell.
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