Analysis Of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter'

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I keep an eye on the job huntings, nothing much changes.
Continue with the word structure, I work on the suffixes wholeheartedly in the study room.
Scanning the sentences, I imperceptibly lose myself in the book just like I did yesterday.
I focus on the spelling of the words, and began to rearrange them.
Then I focus on looking at those common words such as “and” or “but”.
I wanted to look at how people use it in a different way.
Since a published book must be grammatically correct, it can be used as a reference book for grammar as well.

Reading on the screen is more efficient than reading books, especially when I can zoom the words bigger on the screen.
As I am analysing J.K. Rowling’s writing, I realised she likes to repeat certain
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I wonder.
Before I didn’t understand what “heart sinking” mean, now I realise I have this feeling pretty often.
The grass is always greener on the other side . . . sigh.

Today I read about this novel, although I don’t think I should read it.
The name of the novel is “Veronica decides to die.”
For some reason, I totally understand how Veronika feels in the story.
My understand on this novel is better than either Harry Potter or The Martian.
I’ve stopped myself reading it at a certain point of the novel.
Why would anyone waste their time reading a novel about suicide? Tomorrow, there will be new jobs on the hunting sites.
I made a book the day before, and I probably will receive a book about prefix, root and suffix in the library.
I will learn other new words; everyday is a new day.
Don’t worry, the grass is always greener on the other side.
Someone said,”When Jesus closes a door, he will open a window somewhere.”

Today it’s freezing, but it’s just 11
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For example, they talk about phrasal prepositional verb in one of the chapters.
What is a phrasal prepositional verb?
According to the book, it’s a verb that can have both an adverb and a preposition after it.
It looks like it has 2 prepositions after it.
For instance, he fell down on the ice.
“down” is used as an adverb in this case.
Also there are some adjectives that can be used with a preposition.
For example, he is good at maths.
“good” is an adjective, and it’s used with “at” in this case.
One more type of preposition which is a combination of using noun and preposition.
For example, time for lunch, pleasure in gaming, and so on.
So, these are like the missing puzzles in my English, since the grammar videos don’t cover these areas.

While I am reading, I realise this is more advance than the grammar videos.
It actually has most of the missing puzzles I needed.
Think about the words in English, they can be divided into 9 different parts of speech.
Most of the words are either nouns or verbs.
Since many adverbs are formed by adding -ly at the end of the adjectives, knowing either the adjective or the adverb would be enough to figure out the other

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