Is Water Really Wet Essay

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Water is colorless, odorless, and some might even say tasteless, but we would not even exist without it. Water is a transparent liquid and covers more than 71 percent of Earth’s surface. Water has been used and recycled throughout the course of history. Water has many properties and we rely on it for our survival. Since water is one of the basic needs of life, you would be surprised how much controversy comes with it. In recent years, there has been a debate over is water really wet or not. The great professors of the world can’t even come a conclusion. Water is not wet because it goes against the laws of english and science. Once you really contemplate the idea of water, you too, can see that it is not wet. Wet is defined by “consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid.” as it is clearly stated by www.merriam-webster.com. The word wet is an adjective; the part of a sentence that is describing a noun. Water is a noun, however, wet is describing the person, place, or thing that is making the subject saturated with water. For example, the sentence, “The water made my hand wet.” The adjective is wet, but it is not describing the water, wet is …show more content…
Water makes things become wet, but the water itself is not wet. How do you describe wet to a person that has never felt water before? People believe that water is wet because of our experiences with water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water When it rains and we aren’t covered by an umbrella, we get wet. We are taught that water is wet by our experiences, we never were told differently. We are notorious for believing something that makes sense when we just think about for a second. An object can either be wet or dry. Wet is describing the state of the object when it is touched by water. The definition of wet is something that is “covered or saturated with water or another liquid. Water covering more water, that just makes more

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