Class: “This is a knife.”
On to the prepositions. I placed the knife on my table. “Where is the knife?”
“The knife is on the table!”
At this point I suddenly had a “Should I or shouldn’t I?” moment. “Knife” reminded me of a Bowie knife, (a very large knife like that in
Crocodile Dundee) which in turn reminded me of
The Adventures of Jim Bowie show on 1950s television. In the opening credits of the show, the hero cocks his arm and flings a Bowie knife through the air. It’s rendered in slow motion, with a dramatic helicopter-rotor phht, phht, phht sound. The knife then slams point-first-perfectly into a tree trunk, with a zonk effect followed by a sproing-sproing effect as the knife vibrates in place.