Today we will discuss a verb suggested by one of our fantastic members Facebook community: coastal.
coastal
coastal is a regular -yes verb, so it can be conjugated in the present tense as follows:
(1) Coast
(you) coast
(his) coast
(her) coast
(her) coast
(our) coast
(you) coast
(their) coast
You might have guessed it just by looking at the verbs, coastal from noun Costa significance coastal.In fact, the original meaning of this verb is sail along the coastand is still used in this sense in nautical terminology.
We circled the island until we reached the main port.
We sailed around the island until we reached the main port.
However, the meaning has since expanded to mean the general act of moving along or around something, rather than through or through it.
I walked along the garden wall until I saw the gate.
I walked along the garden wall until I saw the gate.
It can be used not only to describe people or vehicles in motion, but also to describe inanimate objects, such as roads or rivers that extend far away and wrap around other objects.
The road runs along the river.
The road runs along the river.
The river is bounded by a road.
There is a road on both sides of the river.
From an agricultural perspective, this also means Level with a plowbut this usage is uncommon.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
