Faith: Hi John! We received a message from an English learner about their favorite character. Arunabh wrote to us about Matilda, from the children’s book with the same name, Matilda. The book is by Roald Dahl. “Matilda is brilliant, resilient, creative and kind, despite growing up in difficult circumstances.”
John: Arunabh uses descriptive adjectives to talk about Matilda’s personality. All these adjectives are a good choice to describe Matilda. She is very smart or brilliant and she is mentally strong or resilient.
Faith: “Growing up” is a gerund meaning to change from a child into an adult. We use the “-ing” form of the verb to make a gerund, but unlike verbs, gerunds are nouns.
John: Next Arunabh shares a quote from Matilda: Matilda said, “…Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..." Here, Matilda is talking about her principal, Miss Trunchbull and how she treats her students. No one believes that Miss Trunchbull is hurting her students.
Faith: “Go the whole hog” is an idiom. Hogs are very large pigs, so to go the whole hog means to do something completely or thoroughly, a big job!
John: Let’s finish with a quiz! How can we make a gerund? We can add an “-ing” to the verb form to make a gerund.
Faith: Thanks for sharing your favorite character, Arunabh! And that’s Everyday Grammar.
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