Community Safety Vocabulary

noun a group of people, vehicles, or ships that work together to guard or patrol an area

verb to keep watch over an area by regularly walking or traveling around it

• The security team conducted a patrol around the perimeter of the building.
• The cops are out on patrol tonight.
• I saw the neighborhood watch doing their patrol thing.
• Her thoughts were on constant patrol, always vigilant for any signs of trouble.

noun a person, place, thing, or idea. In this case, 'doorstep' is a noun referring to the area in front of someone's door.

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it). In this case, 'someone's' is a possessive pronoun

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence. In this case, 'at' and 'on' are prepositions indicating location.

• The package was left at someone's doorstep by the delivery person.
• I found a stray cat on someone's doorstep this morning.
• I can't believe he showed up on her doorstep unannounced.
• The opportunity to start a new career landed on his doorstep unexpectedly.