For today's post, I subject you to the word "subject." Depending on how you pronounce it, this nifty little word can be one of three parts of speech.
If I pronounce it SUB-ject, it can be a noun or an adjective. As a noun, you can take a subject in school, be the subject of a sentence, or be the subject of the king.
If it's used as an adjective, it precedes the word "to." You can be subject to a bloody nose, subject to long, boring lectures, or subject to torture, which I guess is the same as the lecture thing.
If I were to pronounce it sub-JECT, however, I have now made a verb. I can subject you to a bloody nose, subject you to a long lecture, or subject you to torture. . .but why would I do that? I'm a nice person.
Okay, I won't subject you to any more on this subject since I have to find a new subject to subject you to tomorrow.
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- Obviously, the picture is not of me. It's our pride and joy, Daisy. She's a lot better looking than I am, so I figured you'd want to look at her instead. I'll write the posts, however. She can't. She doesn't have opposable thumbs. Currently, I teach high school English, and, since I'm trying to improve the use of language in 16-year-olds, I thought I'd branch out and give some pointers to adults, too. Hope you're not offended. It's just my way of improving the world -- one day at a time. Oh, by the way, I'm always available for freelance writing/editing jobs -- and I'm pretty inexpensive, so. . .
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