on the water The leaves floated on the water. in the water I could see my reflection in the water. under the water She dived under the water. He disappeared under the water.

A noun phrase is either a pronoun or any group of words that can be replaced by a pronoun. For example, ‘they’, ‘cars’, and ‘the cars’ are noun phrases, but ‘car’ is just a noun, as you can see in these sentences (in which the noun phrases are all in bold)

common noun

10 Catch Phrases You Swore You’d Never Use (And When You Used Them)

• “Make it so.”
• “We’re not in Kansas anymore.”
• “SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!”
• “I’m the best there is at what I do.
• “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
• “I know kung fu.”
• “You shall not pass!”
• “Live long and prosper.”

An idiom cannot be one word. A word with many meanings means a word with many meanings. The word “hot” for example has many meanings.

Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would not be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. But fluent English speakers understand the idiomatic meaning; “How are you doing today?” usually just means “hello.”

English Language Learners Definition of idiom : an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own. : a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.

The marriage is done for There is nothing more left to fight for. I am not going to be prize for him to win. I am done for looking for marriage proposals this way. The job was done for him by his colleagues.

English, hands down. << French is a close winner I think. It basic grammar isn’t that hard, but it’s the idioms that makes it such a challenge. >> — I would say French is a close second.

A metaphor is a word or a phrase used to describe something as if it were something else. For example: A wave of terror washed over him. The terror isn’t actually a wave, but a wave is a good way to describe the feeling. Another example is: Jess is dynamite.

So, to find a metaphor in a poem, look for something that is being compared to something else. So, if a poet said “my life is a dream,” that would be a metaphor. For an example from Shakespeare — it’s not poetry, it’s Romeo and Juliet. But Romeo says “but soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

Poetic Devices

• Alliteration.
• Assonance.
• Imagery.
• Metaphor.
• Onomatopoeia.
• Personification.
• Refrain.
• Rhyme.

A metaphor is a word or phrase used to describe something as if it was something else. Instead, a metaphor is simply a statement where you are saying that one thing is another. Take a look at the example of a metaphor in the speech bubble above. The man is saying “Life is a roller-coaster”.

In historical onomasiology or in historical linguistics, a metaphor is defined as a semantic change based on a similarity in form or function between the original concept and the target concept named by a word. Some recent linguistic theories view all language in essence as metaphorical.