Thread: Why won't this work

Hi I need help finding out what I am doing wrong.
I keep getting errors telling me that "v cannot be used as a function" "Parse error before the first"{"" and "implicit declaration of function `int system(...)' "
What is wrong??

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>

char ve;
char v(ve)
{
     cout<< "Please input a Verb: ", cin>>ve;
     return (ve);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char verb1, verb2, verb3, verb4;
  v(verb1);
  v(verb2);
  v(verb3);
  v(verb4);
  cout<< "Here are the verbs you typed: ", verb1, verb2, verb3, verb4;
  system("Pause");
  return 0;
}

thanx