What's the word?

[Ghost]

I know what you mean, "That's not my small child! I don't care that it just popped out of my hoohoo! That's not my noun either!"

[Lucretia]

I've spent all day trying to teach small children what a verb is.

I've been having this problem with college seniors. They also seem to have a difficult time with nouns.

I know! It appears to be a Big Difficult Thing for people to master.

[Cazzle who is too idle to login]

What word is defined as believing that multiple deities exist, but the followers only worship one?

For example, early Jews believed that Baal and other gods existed, but God was their god.

My brain is totally fried. I've spent all day trying to teach small children what a verb is. I feel their pain so much! Their wee faces when they look up at me, DESPERATE to please me but so not really understanding.

Uhhhh ....... I don't know the answer. *chews pen*

At my primary school, we were taught:

A noun is a NAMING word
a verb is a DOING word.

It was surprisingly helpful during undergraduate Syntax lectures!!

[Bird Bird Bird Bird Bird]

Haven't you heard about the bird?

[Techboy]

I've spent all day trying to teach small children what a verb is.

I've been having this problem with college seniors. They also seem to have a difficult time with nouns.

Ask them to add 2 to 4 and divide that by 6, and see how many go for their calculators. Then see how many of them get it wrong be cause they don't understand the order of operations.