{"id":480,"date":"2024-08-11T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2024-08-11T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:58:52","slug":"adverb-and-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Adverb and Adjective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My daughter was doing her homework when she asked, “What is adjective again?”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know what adjectives are but I struggled to explain. “Is it the one with -ly at the end?” she asked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know those are adverbs, things that describe verbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I know about nouns, I know about verbs, but I don’t know what is adjectives,” said my daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then wondered, if adverbs describe verbs, why isn’t adjectives called adnouns, since they describe nouns? Then I remember that nouns when being used, are called differently, which are subjects and objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I eat cake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

‘I’ is the subject, ‘eat’ is the verb and ‘cake’ is the object. Only then it dawned on me the reason adjectives are being called so, because they describes ‘-jects’, i.e. subjects and objects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then explained the realisation to my daughter, as if I knew it all along, and saw the delightful connection being made in her mind to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knew that teaching or answering a 10 years-old’s question, would teach you a question that you hadn’t realised you didn’t know was unanswered, all your life. Well that’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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