I was saying, I may be wrong, but I think this can be deleted and the meaning wont be affected. But you decide. Read the sentence without the bracketed material and see if it works. In the early weeks of the term I handed back papers that were festooned with brackets. Entire para- ...
In such a fast-changing world,in which reality seems to be remade each day,we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us.This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear.Our society needs to be ...
当and连接两个并列主语在意义上指同一人,同一物,同一事或者同一概念时,应看作单数,谓语动词用单数.另外,当and 连接两个形容词去修饰一个单数形式的主语时,其实是指两种不同的事物,主语则应该看作是复数,那么谓语动词也应该用复数. War and peace is a constant theme in history. 战争与和平是一个历史上的永...
I’ve been meaning to pick up“The Name Of The Wind” by Patrick Rothfussfor some time. I’d heard that it was written in first person but framed in third, and that it was just brilliant in general. But would it live up my expectations?
The third person omniscient is as popular as the limited one, and uses the same pronouns. The difference, however, is that the narrator is “all knowing” — meaning that they’re not limited to one character’s perspective, but instead can reveal anything that is happening, has happened, ...
The contrasts of life are the flavors, the textures that give it meaning. Since we are waxing philosophical, the Buddha also offered this morsel of wisdom for authors to consider,“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”...
In these two posts, i learned the meaning of eight [8] words that i had never seen before: lacustrine, philoprogenitively, bairns, tartuffe, scending, bantlings, maculating, and consociate. Fine additions to my possible working vocabulary, all. ...
pleaded and we could hear what they said they seemed strange these words to me did they to others our words our want for their stillness our pleading and distress foreign and if they stopped if they stopped dipping working making even if it seems without meaning what could there be anymore?
Here’s to you, Bobby Rowell, a teacher with an eagle eye for irony and for meaning. Thank you. Fitch, Janet.Paint it Black. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2006. ~28 Comments Since he only recently passed away Pat Conroy is now on the minds of a lot of people who enjoyed hi...
I just let the idea drift in the back of mind. Then one day, I was browsing through Pinterest and saw some tattoos that were quotes from books and my interest was fired. Words were a natural choice for me, a writer, and they could be so beautiful in form and meaning. But, what bo...