English Vocabulary Pyramid - JECT - eject, object, reject, subject, and more!

Hi, excuse me, I'm sure you heard the door close, I'm going to try and teach, we're going

to do a vocabulary pyramid, as you can see Mr. E, he's been copyrighted now, the whole

thing.

I had an idea for this lesson, I'm feeling rather dejected right now, but I'm going to

teach you about "ject", okay?

"Ject" is a root in English, "ject" means to throw, okay?

So we're going to look at this, ject, see how happy I've gotten, I've changed, right?

I'm projecting energy, I'll explain it to you in a second.

"Ject" in English means throw.

Why?

Well, "ject" is really Latin, so in Latin, anything with "ject" added to it means to

throw or pass on, okay?

So "ject" equals throw.

So why don't we look at the pyramid, I'll go through the pyramid, if you've done this

before, we'll read the story, then I'll go over the story again and explain how each

one becomes a word, okay?

So Mr. E wanted me to help him with his latest project.

When he began to lay out my plan, he began to object.

Mr. E would interject every time I would try to inject some fun into the subject.

This is called the alliteration, well not really, it's usually the first letter, but

I'm just doing "ject" alliteration.

Finally he decided to reject my idea and ejected me from his room and I last dejected.

That was the bang of the door and me crying.

Now you're going to go, "How does 'ject' have to do with this, this, this and this?"

Let's do it, let's go to the board, okay?

First thing, Mr. E wanted me to help him with his project.

Well, "ject" means throw, which you have here, but what does "pro" mean?

"Pro", sorry, he ejected me again, there, look at Mr. E. "Pro" means "forward",

"forward", it means "for" or "forward", "for" means when you're for something,

you support it, you support it, it's your team, right?

"Forward" means ahead of you, front.

So when you project something, like, I'm projecting my voice, I'm throwing it forward, okay?

So in this case, a project is something you're working on.

Well, as a noun, we use "project" as a noun, it means something you're working on.

I have a project I'm working on.

I'm working on it now so in the future, which is forward, it will be completed.

Now when I project something, like a missile, I throw it forward, okay?

So you can project your voice, voice, voice, voice, voice, all right, or project a thing.

Or you have a project, something that will be completed in the future because it's forward.

Good, we got "pro" and we have "forward", all right?

So that's the noun, right, project, but we can also do it as a verb, as in to throw,

so a project, okay?

First part, so we're working on a project.

Next one, I began to lay out my plan when he began to object.

You study grammar, so you know an object is usually the receiver on a subject, right?

Because what does "ob" mean?

I'm sure you're going, "What does 'ob' mean?"

"Ob" is interesting because it means opposed, well, you know, different color, opposed to

this one.

Yeah, I know, fine.

Okay, it means opposed, okay, or positioned, positioned against.

So in this case, when we say object, it's positioned against what?

We say as subject, okay, so when we're talking in a noun, you have a subject and an object.

An object is a thing, this is an object, this is an object, this is an object.

I personally object to this, okay, that's the second one.

Object is also a verb, you can object to something, you go to court, I object, it means I am opposed

or against that idea.

He's objecting to what you're suggesting, he doesn't like it, he's against it, okay?

So now we've noticed object can be both a noun, which is this is an object, or you can

object to be given a ticket, it's paid for, see, I paid, it's okay, alright?

So object is a verb, okay?

So here we have a project, but he's objecting, he's saying no to this.

What's next in the story?

Mr. E would interject every time I would try to inject.

These seem very, very similar, they are close, so let's take a look.

Interject, what does inter mean?

Inter means between, interrupt, break into the conversation, you're between the two people.

Interject is to throw something inside the conversation.

So if Ezekiel and I are talking, and Sylvester, he's a cat, we'll introduce him another time,

Sylvester comes and talks, he goes "ahem, in my opinion, I would like to say" yeah,

though you're interjecting, you're coming between us and throwing your opinion in between

two.

Ezekiel, James, Sylvester, he's interjecting his opinion between, throwing it between,

cool?

So, in this case, I'm talking about the project, okay, he begins to object and interject every

time I would speak.

So I said "I think" and he goes "ahem, I would like to interject and say" interject, okay?

Now, inject, you're not children, but I'm sure you're good people.

So let's use the good medical one, inject.

We saw inter means between, well, when you're between two things, right, if you think you're

between two things, there's an outside here and an outside here, you could also say "I

am in, in, in the middle" or "on the inside".

In has a few meanings, but let's just stick with the one for the story today, okay?

In this case, in could be inside.

Okay, when you go to the doctor's, sometimes you're sick, or if you're coming to Canada

and you're from one of those countries that need to get injections, you go "injection,

yeah, sure".

To inject something, which is a verb, you would take a medicine, put it in with a needle,

and put it in the arm, and push, and it goes inside your body.

You inject it, you throw it in the body, why?

Because bodies, boys and girls, are not meant to have things put inside, except for food

in this hole, and come out the other hole, that's it.

So when you inject things in your body, only do it with medical assistance, by a prescribed

doctor, okay, you're throwing stuff into the body that it would normally not put in.

You inject it, okay?

So right now I'm injecting some enthusiasm into the lesson, I'm putting it in, I'm throwing

it in there for you, okay?

So he would interject, every time I would try to inject some fun into the subject.

That's my Star Wars voice, I'm going to slow down now, okay, so, sub, if you've been to

Canada, or America, or you've gone to Subway, the eating store, sub means, oops, red marker

only people, red marker, red means look, pay attention, attention, attention, okay, inject.

Sorry, I got crazy, I should have a blooper reel, a blooper reel, really I should, you

should see all the stuff I make mistakes on, under, under, it means under, so subject is

rather interesting.

Notice with object and project, we had a noun verb combination.

Interject and inject, I was just talking about the noun, sorry the verb usage.

Subject is similar to object and project, it can have a noun or a verb, noun you're

used to, you do grammar, the subject is what the person or the doer of the sentence, subject,

okay?

But we also have subject as a verb, and what does that mean?

Well, we know throw is "ject" and sub is "under," now this is going to be confusing because

you're thinking, well throw is an action, so what does it mean when I use the noun and

how does it translate into the verb?

Well, the subject is the doer of the sentence, it is the most important part of the sentence,

everything in the sentence comes under the subject, subject, right?

I am eating, everything comes under because I am doing it, everything is related to that,

I am the most important thing, or you, if you're the subject.

That's the first part of under, this, everything else must come.

Second part, the verb part, subject, let's imagine this is garlic, and let's imagine

this is how much garlic you need to eat for a meal to be good, not tasty, disgusting.

Now imagine I eat all of this garlic, oh, disgusting, my breath would be horrendous,

my breath would be terrible, you could smell me, I bet you could smell, right now, off

your screen, move away, ooh, garlic breath, okay?

So I would subject you to something terrible, what does that mean?

I would put you under something terrible.

When somebody subjects you to something, they do something that's awful that you must suffer

or feel pain from.

I was subjected to somebody with bad breath, meaning, they kept talking and breathing on

me and I wanted to die, okay, subject, or your teacher can subject you to questions,

right?

They put you under questioning, they keep asking you questions, oh, subject, don't subject

me to bad behavior, don't put me in a situation where I must endure, endure means like live

with pain or have it happen to me on an ongoing basis, okay, so we've got subject, now you

know the verb and now you know the noun.

Now, reject and eject, man, this lesson is getting long, I've got to get out of here

before they reject my pizza, alright, reject, r-e, we've done this before, I believe, hopefully,

means back or again, when you use r-e, it's either back or again or sometimes a combination

of the two because if you do it again, sometimes you go back and do it again, okay, eject means

throw, well, you throw it back, let's just say, for instance, let's just say, for instance,

I were to throw this at Ezekiel and he rejected it, he rejected it, see, it came back, see,

it's not magic, want to see it again, it's not magic, watch, watch, watch, I'll throw

it to Mr. E and he's going to reject it, there, see, it got rejected, it came back to me,

no, we've got to do it again, Mr. E is getting too playful, he's like, again, again, please,

okay, look, you're on the screen here, you're good enough, okay, so eject, so in this case,

it was rejected again, okay, so basically, you notice, I sent it out, it came back and

it came back again and again, reject, so notice, I gave him a project, he was against the project,

he would interject every time I spoke, I tried to make it fun and inject some fun on the

subject what we were talking about, he rejected, he threw it back and said, I don't want it,

you keep it.

Now, what does eject mean?

Very similar, very similar, E, it's not for Mr. E, as I know you might think it's Mr.

E, he's putting his name in there, no, in this case, E is the same as X, X means out

of, out of, when something is out of a relationship, right, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife or extreme, out

of normal range, out of, okay, so in this case, out of, so if you reject something,

you throw it out, okay, if you reject it from a room, they will throw you out of the room,

so if you got ejected from a party, it means literally they physically picked you up and

threw you out the door, that's why you heard the door, I got ejected, threw me out, eject.

Finally, D-E, what does D-E mean?

D-E, once again, these are all Latin prefixes, okay, we'll have other lessons and I'm sure

there aren't, if you see mus or vert, go check them out, okay, it's never, you can never

go over these things too many times, but what you'll find is your vocabulary will build

very quickly when you can understand there are common meanings to parts of words.

D-E in Latin means, or, it can either mean away from or down, that's why you descend

stairs, you go down, you descend, okay, your descendants are your children beneath you,

down from you, away from you, in this case, D-E-JECT means throw down, if you're dejected,

you'll start to cry, because your eyes will be down, you'll be crying, your spirit is

down, you feel really sad, I was dejected, so I left sad, Mr. E wanted, we talked about

a project, a job we were doing, I projected my voice for you to show you the verb, he

objected, I'll show you what an object is, objects, or to say no, I object, interject

is then between two things, so I interject between, usually words, he interjected, inject,

throw in, throw inside, is that throw card, subject means put somebody underneath something

so they cause them to endure something bad, so you make them endure something bad, or

subject is what's everything that goes underneath in the grammar sense, eject, E remember is

out of, eject, out of a plane, oh, I forgot reject, reject means back and again, back

and again, hey, hey, hey, I knew that was going to happen, and dejected, to feel sad,

so we have an adjective form here, one of the few different ones, adjective form, dejected

person, dejected look, well, we've done our vocabulary pyramid, once again he's climbing

to the top, because you will as well, once you go to, well where do you have to go to

climb to the top of learning English, let me send you there, it's a place I know in

Ontario, yeah, they wish, it is, W, W, W, rejecting my voice, ing, don't object right

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I know that was really corny, I know, just turn off the camera, bye.