During the Thousand Words Project in my classroom, I supplemented the lessons with a brief lesson of my own involving choosing exciting verbs to help demonstrate their point. I think that integrating ...

A verb is a word used to describe an action. That’s doing something. Or, a verb can be used to describe a state. That’s feeling something. Or, a verb can be used to describe an occurrence.

Soon, “hark back,” “hearken back” and “harken back” would become full-fledged phrasal verbs — word combinations that have a different meaning than the root verb they’re based on.