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Hi I got interest in a solution posted here & put the suggested function in a bash script leaving at ~/.bin so, a dir under path. Then performed $chmod +x verbteacher.sh for easy calling from $ anywhere in the command line but it does not work. I tried to, kind of, re-open the question & tried also the suggestion of following the above mentioned answer, kind of closely & putting the function in the .bashrc file but it still does not work for me (& it seems is not the best (practice (I'm sorry))) so just hereby asking for some more help. I would appreciate it.

If you want the conjugations (on link address, after /conjugations/ you may choose the language you want to, in my case I choosed french /fra/ ) values, write this on the last line of .bashrc:

conjfra () {

    curl -s "http://api.ultralingua.com/api/2.0/conjugations/fra/$1" | jq -r '. | {tense: .conjugations}'

}

Merci!
EDIT: My bad! sorry for that, I forgot to add the tab space onset on second line, now is correct.

The function (directly from that answer, with only minor modifications):

verbteacher () { 

    wget -qO - http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-"$1".html | 

    sed -n "/>Preterite|>Past</{s@<[^>]*>@ @g;s/s+/ /g;/e I/s/.* I ([^ ]*) you .*/Simple past: 1/;/ Past/s/ Past /Past participle: /;p}" ; 

 }

This can be put into your .bashrc file which would define it for any new shell started (not the current shell session).

You could also turn it into a script:

#!/bin/sh



wget -qO - http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-"$1".html | 

sed -n "/>Preterite|>Past</{s@<[^>]*>@ @g;s/s+/ /g;/e I/s/.* I ([^ ]*) you .*/Simple past: 1/;/ Past/s/ Past /Past participle: /;p}" 

This should be saved into a file that you make executable and put somewhere in a directory that is in your $PATH.

Note: I have not looked carefully at what this code actually does. It may possibly be further improved. This answer is about the issue with just actually using the function provided.

I found an API that handles conjugations. I have created this function that will query it but it requires jq. Also the output is rather verbose but I'm sure it can be pared down by someone that knows jq better than me:

verbteacher () {

    curl -s "http://api.ultralingua.com/api/conjugations/eng/$1" | jq '. | {tense: .partofspeech.tense, verb: .surfaceform}'

}

Usage:

$ verbteacher run

{

  "tense": "infinitive",

  "verb": "run"

}

{

  "tense": "pastparticiple",

  "verb": "run"

}

{

  "tense": "presentparticiple",

  "verb": "running"

}

{

  "tense": "present",

  "verb": "run"

}

{

  "tense": "present",

  "verb": "run"

}

{

  "tense": "present",

  "verb": "runs"

}

....