The noun foreword refers to a preface or an introductory note, often one composed by a person other than the author. Forward is an adjective and an adverb with several meanings related to direction.
Examples:
- Jim Norton is an ass. When he asked me to write this foreword to his book, he, of course, never thought to send me the book itself because he doesn't read books and doesn't realize that the foreword is supposed to have a part where the person says this book is one of the funniest . . . it resonates . . . it's a fresh voice on the literary scene."
(Colin Quinn, foreword to Happy Endings, by Jim Norton, Simon and Schuster, 2007) - "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
(Walt Disney)
Practice:
(a) I look _____ to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
(John F. Kennedy)
(b) Wynton Marsalis wrote the ____ to the new biography of Louis Armstrong.
