Every name is called a NOUN,
As field and fountain, street and town;
In place of noun the PRONOUN stands
As he and she can clap their hands;
The ADJECTIVE describes a thing,
As magic wand and bridal ring;
The VERB means action, something done -
To read, to write, to jump, to run;
How things are done, the ADVERBS tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well;
The PREPOSITION shows relation,
As in the street, or at the station;
CONJUNCTIONS join, in many ways,
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase;
The INTERJECTION cries out, ‘Hark!
I need an exclamation mark!’
Through poetry, we learn how each
of these make up THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
As field and fountain, street and town;
In place of noun the PRONOUN stands
As he and she can clap their hands;
The ADJECTIVE describes a thing,
As magic wand and bridal ring;
The VERB means action, something done -
To read, to write, to jump, to run;
How things are done, the ADVERBS tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well;
The PREPOSITION shows relation,
As in the street, or at the station;
CONJUNCTIONS join, in many ways,
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase;
The INTERJECTION cries out, ‘Hark!
I need an exclamation mark!’
Through poetry, we learn how each
of these make up THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
‘80 per cent of married men cheat in America…’
The rest cheat in Europe.
The rest cheat in Europe.
Pictures or meat are hung; criminals used to be hanged.
You may continually receive unwanted telephone calls from telesales people. However, if this were happening continuously, you would never be able to put the phone down.
she had a propensity for naming
We cannot stop English changing – and only the most ardent, dyed-in-the-wool pedants
Ah, the scourge of supermarket sign-writers
lay/lie/laid
You lie in bed but lay the table, or lay the book on the table or (if you are a hen) lay an egg.
In the past tense, you lay in bed all day yesterday, but you laid the table or the book or the egg.
So lie is the present tense of an intransitive verb*11 that means ‘to put oneself or to remain in a more or less horizontal position’. The present participle is lying, the past tense is lay and past participle lain.
Lay is the present tense of a transitive verb whose basic meaning is ‘to place something in a more or less horizontal position’, the present participle is laying, the past tense and past participle laid.
In the sense of telling an untruth, the forms are lie, lying and lied.
And the concept of an easy lay has nothing to do with hens
You lie in bed but lay the table, or lay the book on the table or (if you are a hen) lay an egg.
In the past tense, you lay in bed all day yesterday, but you laid the table or the book or the egg.
So lie is the present tense of an intransitive verb*11 that means ‘to put oneself or to remain in a more or less horizontal position’. The present participle is lying, the past tense is lay and past participle lain.
Lay is the present tense of a transitive verb whose basic meaning is ‘to place something in a more or less horizontal position’, the present participle is laying, the past tense and past participle laid.
In the sense of telling an untruth, the forms are lie, lying and lied.
And the concept of an easy lay has nothing to do with hens
Some of them are genuinely useful (a flock of sheep and a herd of elephants, for example, if sheep and elephants crop up in your conversation to any great extent)
All self-respecting pedants
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