I feel it is lame not to include state of being and helping verbs. We're aspiring law school students -- we can handle it. Just slap some linking, helping and state of being verb Venn diagrams up there.
I've never been so aware of my own intuitive knowledge of English than I was when I got to the "what about be, or have" they're not actions so much as states-of-being but I know they're verbs inherently.
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@EmeralMackenzieNeloms To love someone would be a verb, since it's an action. You can also have a love for something, which would then become a noun, since it has become a concept/idea rather than an action.
Helpful refresher especially for those whose first language isn't English. I find sometimes though I am a great writer and I have been in the US for 10yrs, I lack some of the basic bricks of innate knowledge that native speakers have.
ohmygod your comment just validated my experience as a rlly good writer too lollll. I moved to the US at 12 y/o and I just learned the rules from seeing a pattern from the way Americans speak, not because the foundations were ever taught to me.
I would argue that the definition of a noun as a person, place, or a thing is not incomplete because thing encompasses infinity, theoretically. Rather, I think that definition is too overarching.
My definition of a noun is something that was created.
-Hypothesis (intellectually created)
-Computer (created by manufacture)
-Animals (created by reproduction)
-New York City (created by humans)
So on and so on….
Now look at verbs: to jump, to run, to drive, to sit, to yell… No one creates those actions as we create nouns.
Rather my definition of verbs is something that we do.
-To yell (we yell)
-To play (we play)
-To sit (we sit)
-To be (we bit)
Now, compare that with nouns… Do we human? No. Rather we humanize (verb). Do we circulation? No. Rather we circulate (verb). Do we hypothesis? No. Rather we hypothesize (verb).
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I feel it is lame not to include state of being and helping verbs. We're aspiring law school students -- we can handle it. Just slap some linking, helping and state of being verb Venn diagrams up there.
If a verb is a noun, and a square is a rectangle, then what is the square root of my purpose in life?
@yesterdayseeker The longer the study session, the more I start thinking and speaking in LSAT LR problems lmao
@yesterdayseeker guess who's back at grammar lessons b/c I totally don't suck at this hehehehehehhe
I've never been so aware of my own intuitive knowledge of English than I was when I got to the "what about be, or have" they're not actions so much as states-of-being but I know they're verbs inherently.
I am a noun.
I AM a verb.
@rosenb1um Now THAT'S power!
Noun: persons, places, things, ideas, concepts or processes.
verbs: be, have, words that indicate action, more or less.
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who knew hypothesis was a noun lol
wait love twice ??
@EmeralMackenzieNeloms To love someone would be a verb, since it's an action. You can also have a love for something, which would then become a noun, since it has become a concept/idea rather than an action.
Helpful refresher especially for those whose first language isn't English. I find sometimes though I am a great writer and I have been in the US for 10yrs, I lack some of the basic bricks of innate knowledge that native speakers have.
Agreed!
ohmygod your comment just validated my experience as a rlly good writer too lollll. I moved to the US at 12 y/o and I just learned the rules from seeing a pattern from the way Americans speak, not because the foundations were ever taught to me.
@lauris837 The most relatable thing I have ever read, thank you so much!!
I really should've paid more attention in 4th grade.
truth! DOLs were something I should have been better at: Daily Oral Language exercises.
@cruzm8736335 real
So glad I'm an English major (for once)
Same here. My "intuition" is much stronger because I've read and written more compared to other majors in undergrad.
English majors unite!!!!
He put love as a noun and a verb hahaha
yeah this threw me off a bit.
I love to go outside (love as a verb)
Love is hard to define, but when you experience it, you will be able to define it. (love as a noun)
The concept idea of nouns ^
@josephmgomez02822 yea i think hes just highlighting that words can act as verbs or nouns depending on the usage in a sentence
ex. 'I love you'. Love is a verb
'My family is full of love'. Love is a noun
Me: Laughing after taking my one grammar class in high school knowing I'll never see it again.
Me seeing the lsat grammar section is longer than arguments: XD
Starting to think I should have paid attention in first grade...
@LarryErmakovich Real😭😩
Flashbacks of elementary school when I refused to learn what an adjective is
I would argue that the definition of a noun as a person, place, or a thing is not incomplete because thing encompasses infinity, theoretically. Rather, I think that definition is too overarching.
My definition of a noun is something that was created.
-Hypothesis (intellectually created)
-Computer (created by manufacture)
-Animals (created by reproduction)
-New York City (created by humans)
So on and so on….
Now look at verbs: to jump, to run, to drive, to sit, to yell… No one creates those actions as we create nouns.
Rather my definition of verbs is something that we do.
-To yell (we yell)
-To play (we play)
-To sit (we sit)
-To be (we bit)
Now, compare that with nouns… Do we human? No. Rather we humanize (verb). Do we circulation? No. Rather we circulate (verb). Do we hypothesis? No. Rather we hypothesize (verb).
My critique of this idea would be that verbs often can also become nouns. 'I jump from planes" and "The jump from the plane was terrifying"