Despite there being many other words for said, remember to use dialogue tags and 'said' synonyms only where necessary:Is it clear who's speaking? (E.g. There are only two characters in the scene and the first to speak is clear). If yes, you don't need a tag Too many tags make ...
Within weeks, she had a tank with five fish, a bunch of shrimp, and then a snail for the cleanup crew. (photos and types of fish to follow.) Just realize… you can’t have just one,,, so Jef, being the sweetheart he is, bought her a long 20-gal tank. “I will do more fres...
If we do not realize the very real difficulties in ourselves and the people, we will fail at this most vital task of missions. Probably what I have written will offend some who read. But my concern is to spread a love for the Son of God to the poorest people who are trapped in dark...
You might not even realize that some of them came from another language. Most popular loanwords are the result of cultural contact. Many of them describe food, the arts, and entertainment. You probably know sushi comes from Japanese, and taco comes from Spanish, by way of Mexico. But some...
We realize only those edges between a pair of contextual groups, if both the source and target answers belonging to separate contextual groups have a high likelihood (⩾0.2) in belonging to the respective clusters. Furthermore, the auto-detected noise cluster (labeled by -1) is rejected; (...
One basic, simple thing about China, that I keep coming back to, is that it’s really important to realize that Chinese people mostly believe that China is a great nation that should be at the forefront of the world. So what I mean by this is not that the Chinese people are all ...
Several techniques can improve Search. Type-ahead, where the Search “suggests” words or auto-completes entries, can help the user. Most internal search engines provide some way to use a thesaurus for synonyms and common search terms or phrases, correcting misspellings, using a controlled vocabula...
She seemed to realize her statement might offend, because she hurriedly added, “Maybe I’m reading the wrong stuff.” “You’re probably just reading it wrong,” I said. I’d seen Grace’s to-be-read pile; nonfiction, books about things, not about how things were described. “You ...
“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize,” she said. “The idea that there’s somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.” Michael Finkel,The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True...
48Here once again we recall Gogol’s admonitions, particularly the memorably weird parts of Selected Passages that attempt to explain precisely what sorts of vocabulary a landowner must adopt in speaking to peasants: “Keep in reserve a supply of synonyms for ‘brave fellow’ and . . . ‘...