Above the old man´s head was the dovecote, a tall wire-netted shelf on stilts, full of strutting, preening birds. The sunlight broke on their gray breasts into small rainbows. His ears were lulled by their crooning; his hands stretched up toward his favorite,
It was afternoon: great clouds stumbled across the shy. In the drowsy, half-dark room the young girl sat in a heap near the window, scrarely moving herself, as if she expected a certain time happening such as a visit
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer.
People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
This book has been written to help you learn new vocabulary. You already know hundreds of English words, but to speak and write English in normal situations you need aat least 1- 2, 000 words. In this book, there are around 1,250 new words...
1) kai, 2) e - meeting, 3) a(u) - to meet:Think of the kanji as a person sitting at a desk under a roof. Most meetings take place in a house with desks (KANJI CẤP BA)
Transition words and phrases help establish clear connections between ideas and ensure that sentences and paragraphs flow together smoothly, making them easier to read. Use the following words and phrases in the following circumstances.
Diagramming sentences provides a way of picturing the structure of a sentence. By placing the various parts of a sentence in relation to the basic subject-verb relationship, we can see how the parts fit together and how the meaning of a sentence branches out, just as the branches of a plant ramify from the stem in space and time. Most students who work at diagramming sentences derive a clearer understanding of how sentences work — as well as satisfaction in the pictorial rendering of sentence structure......
This site focuses on understanding how the written language works to convey meaning. Such a discussion should not, however, downplay the need for good study habits, motivation, and purpose. Critical reading begins before you open a book. What you are reading and why you are reading it greatly influence how you read.
The topics covered here describe the "meaningful chunks" of English sentence structure. In so doing they examine key grammatical principles underlying effective reading and writing. When discussing speech, we say we know something when we can...
This essay is not a complete text on ´How to write ...´. Nor is it designed - to replace existing
works on literary style or the editorial directives issued by journals. Rather it is intended to
help research students and scientists to avoid faults; in particular, faults I have encountered
in scientific papers. Most of the notions are not new but seem to need repeating; some may
be novel. I am grateful to a dozen colleagues for their comments and suggestions.