Learn These Words First (4A)


4-01. put, puts, to put, putting.

[J put K in this place.] = J caused K to be in this place. Before this, K was not in this place, but J caused K to move, and now K is in this place because of this.

[I saw Lisa put something inside this container.]


4-02. able.

[X is able to do this.] = X can do this.

[I am not able to see the other side of this big thing.]


4-03. shape, shapes, shape of, shapes of.

[J is the shape of K.] = Something you know about J is the same as something you know about K. This is something you can know about K if you see it. If you cannot see K, but you touch all the surface parts of K, you can know this same thing about it.

[I cannot see inside this container, but I know what kind of thing is inside because I can feel the shape of this thing.]

[This small container is the same shape as this big container.]


4-04. colour, (color), colours, (colors), colour of, colours of.

[J is the colour of K.] = Something you know about J is the same as something you know about K. This is something you know about K because you see it. This is not something you can know about K if you do not see it. This is not something you can know about K because you touch it.

[These two things are the same colour, but are different shapes.]


Someone put two living things inside this container.

These two living things are the same shape.

These two living things __________.