"Jaime, why should I bother to find out what a word means? It`s just a word. Nothing happens if I skip it"
Well, I must say you are definitively right! Nothing happens. Doors are not open, possibilities are not explored, knowledge is not acquiesced, explanations are not received, ideas are not clarified, concepts are missing, jokes miss their fun, and actions are not understood. Definitively right, nothing happens.
Proof me right or wrong! Let us take three letters, three little letters that make a simple word. L A Y. What do you know about this little word? What does it mean? How many ways can it be used? Can you define it?
Now, what is your impression about your findings? What is there in a word? Can we assume the cost of not knowing what a word means or the many doors that remain shut when I ignore a little word?
I am expecting your posted comments ASAP, remember if you hit first you hit twice!
1.To cause to lie down.
ReplyDelete2.To place in or bring to a particular position.
To put or set down
5. To produce and deposit
6. To cause to subside, calm or allay:
Jaime your are definitly wrong! the meaning of a word gives clarity and idea to a sentence, the word LAY, three simple letters that make hundreds of meanings. so you are wrong if you skip a word something happens you loose knowlegde, you dont learn, you stay in the past. If someone is not willing to learn then he/she will never succed!
ReplyDelete1. To cause to lie down
ReplyDelete2. To bury
3. To cause to be in a particular condition
4. To put or set down
5. To produce and deposit
6. To put up to or against
7. To put forward as a reproach or an accusation
8. To put or set in order or readiness for use
9. To spread over a surface
10. To place or give
11. To present for examination
12. To aim
To cause to lie down.
ReplyDelete2.To place in or bring to a particular position.
To put or set down
5. To produce and deposit
Yes is bad to skip a word because you lose knowledg and you cannot understand the subject
mmm...was an interesting paragraph because we we would apply this in your class
ReplyDeleteFor my lay has many meanings, which are as follows
ReplyDelete1. to cause to lie down
2. to place in or bring to a particular position
3. to bury.
4. to cause to be in a particular condition.
5. to put or set down.
6. to produce and deposit.
7. to cause to subside; calm or allay
8.to put up to or against
9.to put forward as a reproach or an accusation.
10.to put or set in order or readiness for use
11.to devise; contrive
12. to spread over a surface
13. to place or give (importance)
14. to impose as a burden or punishment
15. to present for examination
16.to put forward as a demand or an assertion
17. Games To place a bet.
18. to aim a gun or cannon.
This are the meanings of lay to me.
Is very important when we read an article or a story that we know all the words unknown or unfamiliar vocabulary to understand more the history and put more meaning.
For me, lay is a bad word, because have a lot of meanings, like:
ReplyDelete1. to cause to lie down
2. to place in or bring to a particular position
3. to bury.
4. to cause to be in a particular condition.
5. to put or set down.
6. to produce and deposit.
7. to cause to subside; calm or allay
8.to put up to or against
9.to put forward as a reproach or an accusation.
10.to put or set in order or readiness for use
11.to devise; contrive
12. to spread over a surface
13. to place or give (importance)
14. to impose as a burden or punishment
15. to present for examination
16.to put forward as a demand or an assertion
17. Games To place a bet.
18. to aim a gun or cannon.
This and a lot of more meanings
Mr. jaime you are wrong!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletebecause you said that if you skip a word, it dont change the article, but truly yes because if you change a simplest word like LAY it may make the article with no sence, and the meanings of LAY are the ones behind:
1. to cause to lie down
2. to place in or bring to a particular position
3. to bury.
4. to cause to be in a particular condition.
5. to put or set down.
6. to produce and deposit.
7. to cause to subside; calm or allay
8.to put up to or against
9.to put forward as a reproach or an accusation.
10.to put or set in order or readiness for use
11.to devise; contrive
12. to spread over a surface
13. to place or give (importance)
14. to impose as a burden or punishment
15. to present for examination
16.to put forward as a demand or an assertion
17. Games To place a bet.
18. to aim a gun or cannon.
1.To cause to lie down.
ReplyDelete2.To place in or bring to a particular position.
To put or set down
5. To produce and deposit
6. To cause to subside, calm or allay: To put up to or against
7. To put forward as a reproach or an accusation
8. To put or set in order or readiness for use
9. To spread over a surface
10. To place or give
11. To present for examination
12. To aim
13.to devise; contrive
14. to spread over a surface
15. to place or give (importance)
16. to impose as a burden or punishment
17. to present for examination
18.to put forward as a demand or an assertion
19. Games To place a bet.
20. to aim a gun or cannon.
Words are important because it helps with the meaning and help things to be more understandable.
Sharon oquendo
To be settled down, on a bed, for example.
ReplyDeleteIt can also mean song, untrained, etc.
It all depends on the sentence and the way the word is used, for example, it's not the same to say: "A fish in the pond" to say: "You fish in the pond". In these 2 sentences the word fish is the same, but they have different meanings.
In any text every word is important for you to fathom the story. The word doesn't work alone, the sentence work with him. First thing you need to do is read the sentence carefully, second you need to search the word's meanings, and last you need to analize the sentence to choose which meaning fits the best. Of course no! Every little door is important in a text. A text is like your live, because the people who study hard and give the best of them and care about the little details, will be great persons. So, in conclusion from what I just said, I'm really sorry mister, but you are WRONG
Maybe you would be wrong because if you are making a composition, I mean like an essay, a paragraph, a story etc…and you don’t have a dictionary to search for a word or something you would start thinking and find a synonym on any word that can replays the word that you was searching for the sentence.
ReplyDelete1. To cause to lie down
ReplyDelete2. To place in or bring to a particular position
3. To cause to be in a particular condition
4. To put or set down
5. To produce and deposit
6. To cause to subside; calm or allay
7. To put up to or against
8. To put forward as a reproach or an accusation
9. To put or set in order or readiness for use
10. To devise; contrive
11. To spread over a surface
12. To place or give
13. To impose as a burden or punishment
14. To present for examination
15. To put forward as a demand or an assertion
16. Games To place
17. To aim a gun or cannon
18. To place together strands to be twisted into rope.
19. Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with
Mr. Jaime, I understood your irony and also your sarcasm in this text, and it´s true , nothing happens; nothing happens because you don´t undertand what you read, your imagination world's doors are closed, also you may confuse, your exploration of that new world call a book go to the trash, your knowledge don´t try new horizonts, even your imagination need a bit of that. So Mr. Jaime you´r right, because it´s true, nothing happens in a different sense; nothing happens because you may acquire nothing but a lot of questions, What is this talking about? But this what have to do with what I know? I don´t understand! Why?!!; so don´t LAY all words that you don´t understand without even looking for context clues. There´s all a world in a simple word
ReplyDelete1 To cause to lie down: lay a child in its crib
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a. To place in or bring to a particular position: lay the cloth over the painting.
b. To bury.
3 To cause to be in a particular condition: The remark laid him open to criticism
* 1 put down, especially gently or carefully.
ReplyDelete* 2 put down and set in position for use.
■ Brit. set cutlery on (a table) in preparation for a meal.
■ put the material for (a fire) in place.
■ prepare (a trap).
■ (lay something before) present material for consideration and action to (someone).
* 3 (with an abstract noun) put or place: lay the blame.
* 4 (of a female bird, reptile, etc.) produce (an egg) from inside the body.
* 5 stake (an amount of money) in a wager.
Jaime I think you are completely right. I understood your irony, and in my opinion all what you said is true. What happen if you don't know the meaning of a simple word? You don't understand what the sentences want to tell you. So if you don't know the meaning of a SIMPLE WORD like lay, search it in the dictionary. And other thing that you have to do is to read the sentence carefully, because one word can have more than 1 meaning. I love the way that you used to answer the question, the way that you used the irony was very very amazing.
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