My husband tells me a funny poem sometimes.
It goes: "Jump like a fish, jump like a porpoise, all join hands and a habeas-corpus!" (A porpoise is a dolphin, and "habeas corpus" is a Latin legal phrase.)
But I was thinking about the verb, "Jump."
If we jump, we bend our knees and then -- up! into the air we go!
Some people can jump high! Many animals jump. Fish can jump. Who doesn't jump?
Jumping sounds like a happy thing to do. "I jump, you jump, he/she/it jumps, we jump....."
But Americans use "jump" in other ways also.
"To be jumped" can mean: 1) Someone fixed my car's dead battery, or 2) Someone mugged me. (They hurt me and stole things from me.) In 1), picture the battery "jumping" back to life. In 2), picture someone "jumping out" in the dark to hurt you. Everyone likes to "be jumped" in 1). No one likes to "be jumped" in 2).
I hope you are well and happy. Can you tell me the last time you "jumped for joy"? That also is a wonderful English expression to remember. Write or talk about it. I will jump for joy with you!
It goes: "Jump like a fish, jump like a porpoise, all join hands and a habeas-corpus!" (A porpoise is a dolphin, and "habeas corpus" is a Latin legal phrase.)
But I was thinking about the verb, "Jump."
If we jump, we bend our knees and then -- up! into the air we go!
Some people can jump high! Many animals jump. Fish can jump. Who doesn't jump?
Jumping sounds like a happy thing to do. "I jump, you jump, he/she/it jumps, we jump....."
But Americans use "jump" in other ways also.
"To be jumped" can mean: 1) Someone fixed my car's dead battery, or 2) Someone mugged me. (They hurt me and stole things from me.) In 1), picture the battery "jumping" back to life. In 2), picture someone "jumping out" in the dark to hurt you. Everyone likes to "be jumped" in 1). No one likes to "be jumped" in 2).
I hope you are well and happy. Can you tell me the last time you "jumped for joy"? That also is a wonderful English expression to remember. Write or talk about it. I will jump for joy with you!
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