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Jane and Sarah will be very hurt if they aren’t invited to your party. You won’t be able to keep it a secret. They are sure to hear about it by word of mouth. (“In the Loop:A Reference Guide to American English Idioms“) Down in the mouth is an idiom which refers to the way one’s mouth turns downwards when one is unhappy. 1. Jeff has been down in the mouth since he lost his job. 2. You look so…

often goes amiss in the translation. In fact, the very first chapter of the novel includes a homograph of the word “digne” both as a location for the Bishop of Digne and an adjective describing the his uncle as “un digne curé”, playing on the double meaning of the word “digne” in French (Hugo 8; vol.1). In other languages, however, this meaning is lost as “digne” translates into two separate words, in which the uncle is simply “a worthy priest” (Hugo, and Hapgood 7). Though minor, puns such as…

please have a look . Rest the article is fine. Please have a look , i will call you in 5 Mins. Last Mile Delivery – the Holy Grail of Delivery Last Mile Delivery is the final movement of goods before it reaches into the hands of the end consumer. The final frontier in the delivery cycle of supply chain, it is also the most critical one as it involves direct interaction with the consumer. Technically, Last Mile Delivery involves logistic management as well as consumer service. So, it…

Opposition by Elouise Bell are both well writien articles. They both have very diffrent views but at the same time have some similaritys. One thing that I noticed when reading that they both talk about heated debate/ agurmnet. When i see those two words togther i think they are similar, as they both result insomething that you are talking about with passion. Tannen uses the phrase heated depate as she describes that in a classroom in a high school. “They refuse to concede a point raised by…

Banished words are words or phrases that can be misinterpreted, misused, overused, or otherwise deemed useless. Every year Lake Superior States University releases a list of banished words. These words come from a variety of sources across the entire country. These banished word nominations are sent in and a committee makes their decision of which words make the cut before the end of each year. Inspired by words on the Banished Word List, our team was tasked to come up with 10 words which we…

The constant word “and”, frequently used by young children, is placed at the beginning of several lines to connect the narrator’s string of thoughts. By connecting several sentences together Silverstein is displaying the narrator’s inexperience with complex tasks. Moreover…

In an Oxford dictionary, there are around 171,000 words with each word meaning a unique meaning. There are words that mean good and bad that differ from books to everyday conversation. Censorship in Literature is not necessary because it changes the historical setting, defeats the freedom of speech idea to writers, and hinders the challenge of becoming a responsible reader. As time progresses, words tend to change its meaning since it is used in different ways. history. As Carrey Webb stated,…

After finishing my first semester of English, I can say that I have improved immensely as a writer. Coming into the class, I was not very confident in my abilities as a writer. I did not think my word choice was above average, I thought my sentence structure was something that could be qualified as trash, and I felt like I could not address my audience in any way. However, after this first semester, I feel that everything has changed. Through evaluating my own work this semester, I have been…

interfere with the learning, safety, or well-being of others. The teacher’s goal is for the children to learn how to write a correct sentence by Christmas. She uses a lot of gestures, direct instruction, she stops and explain difficult words while she talks, how words can have different meanings. Miss Krag said that her job is to teach formal English not the informal that they may learn in the street. Other accommodation that I noticed is that she asked 1st grader students to write small…

Fate is an often debated topic. There are many questions that are often asked when talking about fate. There are three questions I will be answering based on Sophie’s World : “Do you believe in Fate?, Is sickness the punishment of the gods?, What forces govern the course of history?” Some other major themes are the purpose of history, Hegel’s view on history, religion,…