If you think you are beaten, you are . . .
Word: forward-looking
Part of Speech: adjective
Meaning:
Word Usage:
Morgan’s forward-looking gave her insight on finishing her project without glitches.
Word: ¹unfair
Part of Speech: ²adjective
Meaning:
Word Usage:
The unfair actions of others made Nathan question Gods love for him.
¹Thesaurus.com. <http://thesaurus.com/browse/unfair>
²Dictionary.com. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unfair, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/adjective>
Recently, I purchased a new Amish love story by Kelly Long. She’s a new author for me. But I needed something to read and enjoy during moments of downtime. And the title Lilly’s Wedding Quilt intrigued me. So it was plucked off the shelf and placed into my basket with great anticipation for a romantic adventure. But my limited vocabulary has made it hard for me to enjoy the book. As I reflect upon my frustrations in having to stop reading to look for the meanings of words I probably will never use I find my behavior childish. Honesty, I feel my juvenile outlook during reading this book keeps me stagnant in building my vocabulary. So to keep me interested in reading what seems to be a great novel I have decided to use the words I do not know on Vocabulary Mondays.
Word: surreptitiously
Part of Speech: adjective
Word usage in “Lilly’s Wedding Quilt”: “She blinked her eyes, licking surreptitiously at a splat of rain that dripped past her mouth, then spoke the first thing that came to her mind.”
Word: fastidious
Part of Speech: adjective
Meaning: excessively particular or critical; hard to please
Word Usage: Grant is a FASTIDIOUS dresser, he’ll wear clothing only from the best designers. (GRE Vocabulary Flashcards)
What the heck is a subject noun? In all my days of learning how to write I have never heard of a “subject noun.” Hum . . . I guess I better start searching for the answer to my question.
Well, I finally found a definition that was easy to understand. According to WiseGeek.com:
A subject noun is the subject of a sentence and usually, but not always, comes before the main verb in a sentence. The subject performs the action described by the verb and can be identified in a sentence by the answer to the question “who did it?” or “what did it?” A noun is a name word used for a person, thing, animal, or something abstract and these nouns can function in a sentence as a subject, a subject or object complement, direct or indirect object, an adjective, adverb or appositive.
Several weeks ago I wrote about a sentence requires a subject and a predicate. A week after that I also noted “a sentence must have a verb but the verb can also be a predicate.” However, today I want to briefly list the eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Parts of speech defines how words are being used. In my next post I will discuss how words can work as a noun in one sentence, and how that same word can be used as a verb or even an adjective in a different sentence structure.
