adding to the appeal of the Taj Mahal is the fact that it monumentalizes one man's undying love for his wife Recent Examples on the Web Many white men monumentalized as heroes gained renown at a terrible expense to other people. Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023 The torching...
When I received gifts as a child, my mom taught me to write and mail thank you letters the next day. This lesson stuck with me throughout my career because of her reasoning for this simple gesture: "Even if you thank them in the moment," she explained, "an addi...
If you look at the bold letters above, they form the word FANBOYS. You can use FANBOYS as an acronym to remember these seven coordinating conjunctions. Of course, feel free to put your own spin on it and make it BOYFANS. If you love Scrabble, you probably have more tricks up your...
Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2011 With his wife of 15 years, professional photographer Holly Cruikshank Ireland, and their two daughters, Addy and Brooke, Ireland has adopted four pet reptiles: a Florida king snake, an African ball python, a bearded dragon and a panther chameleo...
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Good bet! Without car trouble or an earthquake, you’re going to make it! You’re reliable! You’re her kind of guy! There’s a good chance she’ll fall in love with you. “Reliable” is a golden virtue, if not THE golden virtue. Being reliable is like the sun and the moon—...
A. Milne. On the last line in this example note how "one" and "will" alliterate even though they use different letters: These are my two drops of rain Waiting on the window-pane. I am waiting here to see Which the winning one will be. From The Swing by Robert Louis...
A subtler example of verbal irony comes from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which begins with the sentence: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. The sentence is ironic because its speaker claims to believ...
They found my wife and I under a snowdrift. (The subjective pronoun "I" must be the subject of a verb. Here, it's the direct object of the verb "found." It should read "They found my wife and me." Of note, however, the term "my wife and me" grates on the ear of most na...
"It is one thing to believe in a nice old God who will take good care ofusfrom a lofty position of power whichwe ourselvescould never begin to attain." (The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. Simon & Schuster, 1978) ...