Today’s English
May 16th, 2017
Most of us mostly use most of the English words miserly knowingly or unknowingly. Exploitation is good in the case of squeezing an English Word to the last drop. A book, as you know, is not only a book for reading but also a weapon when you throw it, a paper weight to arrest your flying bills and forms, a cash bag to carry your currencies, an album to safeguard your photos, its papers being plates and cones for your snacks, etc. Similarly a word can be juiced in multiple ways as follows:
Example word: run
1. Use all its parts of speech wherever possible
He always runs fast. (As a verb)
He is a marathon runner. (As a noun)
He is best remembered for his running commentary (As an adjective)
He challenged me for a run./ We made a run for the bus.(As a noun)
2. Use it in different meanings you didn't try so far
Bahubali-2 made a record-breaking run worldwide. (Run= the performance of a film/drama/serial)
How do you run your family / business / school / company? ( run = manage)
Due to food poison, he had the runs (the runs = diarrhoea)
Our school runs summer courses for kids.(Run =organise)
All rivers in Tamil Nadu ran dry due to lack of rain fall.(Run =become)
Even at the age of 80, he wanted to run for the chief minister. (Run =To compete as a candidate in election)
3. Use it as a phrasal verb
Run after = try to have a romantic relationship with someone)
Why do you run after her in vain?
Run on = to continue longer than necessary
I don’t like staff meeting to run on for several hours.
Run through /run over = read something quickly
She ran through the circular once again.
Run down = make someone very tired / ill
Continuous classes ran me down.
4. Try idioms connected with that word
To have something up and running = to have it fully and correctly
Don’t forget to have our website up and running.
To run a light = Not stopping at red traffic light
He was fined for running a light.
Run a risk/run risks= to put yourself in a situation in which something bad may happen to you.
I don’t want to run a risk of starting this business.
To run for the roses = to be ready for a tough challenge
The final started and we all were ready to run for the roses.
To run out of steam = to be out of energy or motivation
I felt as if I had run out of steam.
5. Use it as a present participle if it is a verb
After running for a long distance, he fell flat.
6. Use it in a rhetorical question to improve your persuasive speaking skill
Who can’t run such a business? (=everyone can run such a business)
Where can she run away from me? (Implied meaning: She cannot run away from me)
7. Use it as a figurative term to carry a non-literal meaning
Why do you run away from yourself to find yourself?
Run your own race to find your Destiny.
How fast you run in life doesn’t matter if you run on the wrong path.
Apart from the above ones, you can try a word in different tense forms in stead of using the same tense form or the same kind of sentence pattern. The more you utilise a word, the more you build up your fluency.
“Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impossible.” – (Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1. )
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