Hear is how to learn English from wine which we call Wineglishtm. Wine/English. Now there is a great concept! After spending all those years in school learning nouns and adjectives, I just need to go cruising through our wine shop. It seems like these days if you mix a noun and an adjective together you have a new wine label. What is a noun and adjective you might ask? Yep, it’s been a long to for me too. Let’s get ready for Wineglish lesson No. 1 First you need to pull out a bottle of something that interests you. Preferably with a label that contains a noun and an adjective. If you are uncertain if you have it right, just pour it anyway and this lesson will let you know how your grammar is.
A noun is a person place or thing. Some good examples of nouns are: Bottle, Glass, Cork, Angus and Trixie. An adjective describes the noun and usually answers the questions: which? what kind of? or how many? For example, what kind of a bottle? A wine bottle of course. In this case wine is the adjective. But if I asked someone to put wine in my glass, wine would be the noun since it is the thing (although I never think of wine as a thing - it is a work of art). Glass is also a thing but in my case it is a place (destination for wine). Isn’t English fun?
When you really get good at this (and have had more than your share of wine) you can begin to make up words like Wineglishtm - learning english from wine. Another great word is winage. This can be used in sentences like “we are going to have some major winage tonight”
OK so here we go. I had to take a field trip to verify this noun / adjective thing and here are a few results from my research. See if you can tell which word is the noun and which is the adjective.
Toasted Head
Red Truck
Red Guitar (guess someone likes red)
Cycles Gladiator (that one confused me - is “cycles” an adjective?)
Rock, Paper, Scissors (trick question - they are all nouns!)
Little Boomey
Fat Bastard (check out my February 2 review)
Now lets try to make up some labels. Match the adjectives on the left with the nouns on the right:
Large Wine
Crazy Glass
Good Road
Crooked Trixie
Now that you have the idea, I believe we just invented another Vintage Tuesday drinking game - as if we need anymore!
Happy Trails (adjective and noun!)
Angus
