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The imperative

Let's learn four meanings of the noun position. 1.

Position refers to where a person or thing is, their location.

Past simple

The singer took a central position on the stage. 2.

Position can refer to how a thing or person is placed, or to talk about the way a person's body is placed.

When I first tried yoga, some of the positions were very uncomfortable. 3.

It's often used when talking about a situation which either limits or increases someone's opportunity to do something.

The company is in a difficult position after their latest product received terrible reviews. 4.

Position can be used to talk about a person's job or rank they hold.

She holds a managerial position in the team.

As an adjective, it means attractive, especially when talking about girls or women.

Margot always tells her daughter that she's pretty.

We can also use pretty to talk about things that are pleasant to look at in a delicate or charming way.

Again, this is often connected to females, but it doesn't have to be.

There's a very pretty view at the top of that hill.

As an adverb, pretty can be an informal way of saying quite or rather.

We went to bed at 2am, so we were pretty tired.

Finally, if you see pretty with the words much or well, it means almost.

I think we've mentioned pretty well everything, so I guess we're pretty much finished.

Subject can be a noun, verb, and adjective.

In grammar, the subject is the person or thing that does the action.

George is the subject of the sentence, George baked a cake.

At school, college, or university, a subject is something you study.

My favourite subject at school was music.

A subject can also be the topic that is discussed or studied.

She has written many books on the subject of sleep.

As a verb, to subject someone to something means to make them experience it.

She subjected us to her terrible singing.

As an adjective, to be subject to something means to be affected by it.

These lessons are subject to a time limit.

As a noun, it's often a place covered in grass with a fence or line around it.

A field might be for animals and crops or for playing sports on.

A field can be the area or subject that someone works in.

If you field a ball in cricket or baseball, you catch it and throw it to where it should be.

At work, people field questions or calls.

I've been fielding calls from angry customers all day.

So, a field is a place for animals, crops or sports, the area you work in.

And it's a verb for dealing with problems.

It's very common to use kind as an adjective.

Kind describes someone who's caring and helpful and it can also describe the actions that make them that way.

We also use this word as a noun to say what group something is in.

We can use kind of to suggest that something is only just that type of thing.

This colour, it's kind of blue, kind of green, somewhere in the middle.

OK, it's kind of complicated but we use kind as an adjective for good acts and good people and we use it as a noun to talk about categories of things.

This is used to show what we are referring to.

This is the book I recommended to you yesterday.

We use this when the thing we're talking about is very close to us, not far away.

This also goes before words like afternoon, week and year to refer to the present time.

I'm meeting two friends for dinner this week.

Finally, we use this when we want to show the degree or level of something.

Why don't you share this video with a friend?

On our head we have our eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

She always tilts her head when she's thinking.

We also use head as a noun to refer to our mind and how we think.

As an adjective or noun, we can use head to mean leading or being in charge of something.

My sister is the head chef of a restaurant.

My brother is head of English at a school.

In some phrasal verbs, head means to leave or go in a particular direction.

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