[Vocabulary] Need two sentences with a word ‘bacterium’

[northpath]

Please, I need two REAL sentences with a word ‘bacterium’ – not ‘bacteria’!

 

[emsr2d2]

Why do you need them, northpath?

 

[Skrej]

How about a bacterium limerick?

There once was a lonely bacterium,
Who received a big honorarium.
He decided his life he should modify,
so he sat down and started to multiply,
until he filled up the whole damn aquarium!

 

[Raymott]

OK then:

There once was an ovoid bacterium
Who followed the true magisterium.
A religious fella,
He used his flagella
To whip himself into delirium.

 

[GoesStation]

How about a bacterium limerick?

There once was a lonely bacterium,
Who received a big honorarium.
He decided his life he should modify,
so he sat down and started to multiply,
until he filled up the whole damn aquarium!

Sorry skrej, that isn't a limerick. Its third and fourth lines are too long.

 

[Rover_KE]

To repeat ems's question, northpath, why do you need them?

 

[northpath]

Why do you need them, northpath?

Just as an example of using the singular form of ‘bacteria’ because there are no such examples in dictionaries.

 

[northpath]

Thanks, it has never occurred to me that a bacterium can be a hero of a limerick!
Let me share my own limerick – just for fun:

There was an old man of New York
Who punched his right buttock with a fork.
When they asked, “Does is hurt?”
He replied, “Yes, a lot”.
That mysterious man of New York

 

[teechar]

Just as an example of using the singular form of ‘bacteria’ because there are no such examples in dictionaries.

Which dictionaries have you tried?

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks, it has never occurred to me that a bacterium can be a hero of a limerick!
Let me share my own limerick – just for fun:

There was an old man of New York
Who punched his right buttock with a fork.
When they asked, “Does is hurt?”
He replied, “Yes, a lot”.
That mysterious man of New York

Nice try but there is one syllable too many in line 2, and lines 4 and 5 don't rhyme with each other.

 

[northpath]

Which dictionaries have you tried?

Longman and Macmillan

 

[teechar]

Longman and Macmillan

Bookmark www.onelook.com

 

[Raymott]

Longman and Macmillan

You should not need to get any sentence out of a dictionary. Simply write a grammatical sentence with 'bacterium' in it. Sorry, but I don't get this; maybe it's just me. You know what a bacterium is?

Here's what to do:
1. Think of any sentence with a noun in it.
2. Substitute 'bacterium' for the noun.
3. If it makes sense, keep it.
4. If it doesn't make sense, go back to 1.

That's only one method; I've got others.

 

[Tarheel]

Nice try but there is one syllable too many in line 2, and lines 4 and 5 don't rhyme with each other.

That's why that one is funny.

 

[Tarheel]

Note that there is never just one bacterium. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be hard to make a sentence using that word.

 

[Raymott]

Well, here's a picture of one.

:smilecol:
Is that a picture of a bacterium?
Note that there is never just one bacterium.
:smilecol: ^ Sentences with 'bacterium in it.

 

[Skrej]

There can be only one bacterium.

Otherwise they're bacteria.

 

[Tarheel]

Theoretically, in a laboratory, you could separate one bacterium from the rest. However, under natural conditions you won't find just just one bacterium. (I guess that's more than enough sentences with "bacterium" in them, eh?)

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes, that's enough.

Thread closed.