Where there´s a verb, there´s a way

 Mankind and language go hand in hand. The death of a person is the death of his language. Dead languages are languages whose speakers died. When Mr. Tuone Udeina died in 1898, Dalmatian, as a language, also died, and became a dead language that very day. But pehaps I digress...

The above apropos of how speakers shape, change, rape, manhandle, and misuse this wonderful tool, to their heart´s content. Why do speakers prefer long phrases instead of verbs? Why are they fond of using two or three words instead of only one? Examples:

"To have breakfast" insted of "to breakfast"

"To take a nap" instead of "to nap"

"To take a shower" instead of "to shower"

"To stand up" instead of "to stand"

"To sit down" instead of "to sit"

"To stand up" instead of "to stand"

"To have lunch" insted of "to lunch"

Ah, the mysteries of the human brain that created language and refuses to use it right.