@staticmethod
def _inflect_verb(verb_morph):
    """
        Change the form of the verb to correlate with the beginning of the joke
        """
    tense = verb_morph.tag.tense
    inflected_verb_morph = verb_morph.inflect({'VERB', 'femn'}
        ) if tense == 'past' else verb_morph.inflect({'VERB', 'sing',
        '3per', tense}) if tense else None
    return inflected_verb_morph
