Today when I went to class
Our professor, Dr Glass,
Introduced us to his young adjunct,
An assistant who would be
Teaching us apparently
And her name was Mrs Penny Punct.
Ironically the lesson she
Taught us on just had to be
The word “adjunct” and all of its meanings,
She said it wasn’t only an
“Assistant” but it also can
Be a person or even a something...
Associated with another
Person or a thing in rather
A subordinate or short-term way,
Like a trailer for your car
That’s used but not for very far
And after use is no doubt put away…
I felt my mind expanding when
She opened up her mouth again
And out of it came quite another thing,
That this word was also for
A concept that one can’t ignore
It being a word that gives words deeper meaning!
For example I could say
Of a boy, “He went away”
And that would be the end of it except,
I could make the sentence sound
Quite different if I did resound
“He went away careful and circumspect”.
So you see in language we
Can clearly see obviously
That an adjunct is another word
For the words that you and I
Use when trying to qualify
A verb or in other words an adverb!
And so I write this accolade
For Dr Glass’s Teacher Aide
Whose intelligence none could debunk,
For now I am a smarter man
And now know when I can’t or can
Use the word we heard today – “Adjunct”
Today when I went to class
Our professor, Dr Glass,
Introduced us to his young adjunct,
An assistant who would be
Teaching us apparently
And her name was Mrs Penny Punct.
Our professor, Dr Glass,
Introduced us to his young adjunct,
An assistant who would be
Teaching us apparently
And her name was Mrs Penny Punct.
Ironically the lesson she
Taught us on just had to be
The word “adjunct” and all of its meanings,
She said it wasn’t only an
“Assistant” but it also can
Be a person or even a something...
Associated with another
Person or a thing in rather
A subordinate or short-term way,
Like a trailer for your car
That’s used but not for very far
And after use is no doubt put away…
I felt my mind expanding when
She opened up her mouth again
And out of it came quite another thing,
That this word was also for
A concept that one can’t ignore
It being a word that gives words deeper meaning!
For example I could say
Of a boy, “He went away”
And that would be the end of it except,
I could make the sentence sound
Quite different if I did resound
“He went away careful and circumspect”.
So you see in language we
Can clearly see obviously
That an adjunct is another word
For the words that you and I
Use when trying to qualify
A verb or in other words an adverb!
And so I write this accolade
For Dr Glass’s Teacher Aide
Whose intelligence none could debunk,
For now I am a smarter man
And now know when I can’t or can
Use the word we heard today – “Adjunct”
She opened up her mouth again
And out of it came quite another thing,
That this word was also for
A concept that one can’t ignore
It being a word that gives words deeper meaning!
For example I could say
Of a boy, “He went away”
And that would be the end of it except,
I could make the sentence sound
Quite different if I did resound
“He went away careful and circumspect”.
So you see in language we
Can clearly see obviously
That an adjunct is another word
For the words that you and I
Use when trying to qualify
A verb or in other words an adverb!
And so I write this accolade
For Dr Glass’s Teacher Aide
Whose intelligence none could debunk,
For now I am a smarter man
And now know when I can’t or can
Use the word we heard today – “Adjunct”
By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2014
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