Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Katie Weaver.

And I'm Mario Ritter Jr. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower and we use words and phrases

especially written for people learning English. On this program, Andrew Smith answers a listener's

question about the word appeal.

Katie shares listeners' messages about their birthdays on everyday grammar.

John Russell has a story about the discovery of an ancient structure in Denmark. then the final part of Rapicini's daughter

on American stories. But first, this week on Ask a Teacher, we answer the following question from a listener. Dear teacher, could you please say

more about the meaning of appeal? Thank you. Like many words in English, appeal has more than one meaning.

It can also be more than one part of speech.

A part of speech means the grammatical function a word has, such as a noun, verb, adverb, or adjective.

Let's look at the many ways we can use the word appeal.

As a verb, appeal means to make a request, often in official situations or involving important things. Generally, we do not use appeal for normal everyday requests. For example, we would not say, I appeal for you to get some milk at the store.

But we would say something like,

The earthquake victims appealed to the government for more aid.

Appealing.

We can change the meaning of appeal by making it an adjective one way to do this is to use the i n g ending

this forms the word appealing which describes something that has a pleasing quality. Consider the following

examples. That job is really appealing to me. Her dress looks really appealing. The nice weather makes

that city so appealing. That argument is appealing to many voters.

As shown in these examples, we can use the adjective appealing to describe many different things.

The word appeal can also be used as a noun. One meaning as a

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