Looking up the word “call” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary indicates the word may be used as a verb or a noun.
Within these categories for use the examples for “call” are extensive:
- Call for help
- Call for an investigation
- Call of an animal
- Call by telephone
- Call to show hand in a card game
- Call a square dance
- Call to pay respects
- Call out a number
- Call the roll
- Call a sport
- Call to testify
- Call to mind
- Call to duty
- Call a meeting
- Call to wake up
- Call for an offense
- Call off
- Call a spade a spade
- Call for
- Call it quits
- Call names
- And so on…😊
We will examine closely today two more examples not included above:
the transitive verb: “call on: defined as:1 : to call upon Is there anyone you can call on in an emergency?; and the noun form defined as :: a divine vocation or strong inner prompting to a particular course of action often referring to as being called or a calling.
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