Tom's Midnight Garden - Chapters 13 and 14 - Word Workshop

The "Tom's Midnight Garden" chapters 13 and 14 Word Workshop is an educational activity designed to enhance vocabulary and language skills. For the word 'obstinately', which means stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action, a student might write, "He obstinately refused to leave the park despite the heavy rain." The word can be modified to 'obstinately' in its adverb form, with synonyms such as 'stubbornly' and antonyms like 'flexibly'. The word class for 'obstinately' is an adverb.

Similarly, 'eternally' means lasting forever or for an infinite time. In a sentence, it might appear as, "The stars shone eternally in the night sky." This word could be modified to 'eternal' as an adjective or 'eternity' as a noun. Synonyms include 'perpetually', while antonyms could be 'temporarily'. The word class for 'eternally' is an adverb. The workshop guides students through this process for a variety of words, encouraging them to understand and use each word in context, modify its form, and explore its synonyms and antonyms, thus deepening their comprehension and usage of the English language.