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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I'm pretty good at using words, but I'm not very good at knowing what to call them, ...
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Just do what I do. Let them know you went to public school. They'll give you a sympathetic "ohhh," and that'll be the end of having to put forth any effort to learn anything on the subject.
Besides, it's more fun not knowing. You can just imagine what each of the little critters look like. "There's a swan-necked adjective pooping on my lawn again!" And ... "My spiked-toothed adverbs only halfheartedly chase it, knowing it will pogo-jump its way over the fence anyhow." And ... "I've always liked the finger-tipped nibblings of short-tailed gerunds while I'm typing – even though it leads to 'typographical' errors." I don't even want to imagine what a preposition or "phrase" of them look like.