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“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.” ―Samuel Beckett “[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a pl...
Now there are things far more important than ___2___ you actually like the song. For on, you must ___3___ whether the band or artist you are listening to is currently fashionable. ___4___, you wouldn't want to look out of ___5___. And perhaps ever more importantly, you n...
Or they might insert a word or phrase from another language. When and why people code switch depends on the speakers and the situation. One reason people code switch is to show social closeness. Imagine that two women meet at a party in New York. Gabriela is Brazilian, and Pamela is Brit...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...
In a few short minutes of discussion with a fellow pastor this morning, I realized that I regularly ask myself “Why should I?” when it comes to praying. I may not verbalize that phrase to myself but I definitely say it. I say it when I have a headache and first grab a pill. ...
immediately threatening to the majority of my students, and it’s a challenge to get them to engage with the concepts, especially when their previous education has emphasized gaming a series of standardized tests. So, for example, when I use the phrase ‘patriarchal society,’ many students ...
I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos of student-centred active learning which is so often ...
I read your “Adjectives and Adverbs” article with great hope, but you didn’t address my #1 question: the phrase, “More importantly” or “Most importantly.” Please tell me we don’t need the LY here. GrammarBook.com says: February 21, 2019, at 9:04 pm We recommend dropping ...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...