I Got The Boy

• By: Jana Kramer

Lyrics:

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
picture /ˈpɪktʃər/ A1	noun - a painting, drawing, or photograph
girl /ɡɜːrl/ A1	noun - a female child or young woman
grown /ɡroʊn/ A2	adjective - adult, mature
dreams /driːmz/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection verb - to feel deep affection for (someone)
kids /kɪdz/ A1	noun - a child or young person
kiss /kɪs/ A1	noun - an act of touching with the lips verb - to touch with the lips
future /ˈfjuːtʃər/ A2	noun - the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; what is going to happen
past /pæst/ A2	noun - the time before the moment of speaking or writing
ring /rɪŋ/ A1	noun - a circular band, typically of metal, worn as an ornament
diamond /ˈdaɪəmənd/ B1	noun - a precious stone consisting of a clear and colorless crystalline form of pure carbon
wedding /ˈwɛdɪŋ/ A2	noun - the act or ceremony of marrying
boy /bɔɪ/ A1	noun - a male child or young man
man /mæn/ A1	noun - an adult male human being
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
hair /her/ A1	noun - any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and other animals
hot /hɒt/ A1	adjective - having a high degree of heat or a high temperature

Grammar:

• Honeymoon in Jamaica, she's a lucky girl

  ➔ Simple Sentence with Subject-Verb-Complement, Contraction

  ➔ "She's" is a contraction of "she is". This is a common feature of informal English, particularly in song lyrics.

• Seems like another world

  ➔ Present simple with linking verb

  ➔ "Seems" acts as a linking verb, connecting the subject to its description.

• Fallin' in love

  ➔ Gerund as noun, shortened form

  ➔ "Fallin'" is a shortened form of "falling" and used as a gerund acting as a noun in context.

• We were two kids in the backseat

  ➔ Past simple tense, Prepositional phrase

  ➔ "Were" is the past tense of "be". "in the backseat" is a prepositional phrase indicating location.

• She's got the future and I got the past

  ➔ Present Perfect tense (informal), Parallel Structure

  ➔ "She's got" is an informal way of saying "She has got", equivalent to "She has". The parallelism emphasizes the contrast between the two statements.

• Nice tie and shoes

  ➔ Adjective + Noun (Compound Noun)

  ➔ "Nice" is an adjective describing the nouns "tie" and "shoes".

• If things were different I had a choice

  ➔ Second Conditional

  ➔ Expresses an unreal or unlikely condition in the present or future. "were" shows the unreal condition and "had" is the result

• We each got somethin', the other will never have

  ➔ Relative Clause (non-defining), Informal Grammar

  ➔ The relative clause "the other will never have" is non-defining, providing additional information. The word "that" is ommitted. The word "somethin'" is also informal.