epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Rosenfelder, Mark [Rosenfelder, Mark]

Progressive The progressive specifically expresses ongoing action. The English progressive (I was studying, I’m cooking) is a good example. In English, we are happy to use the ordinary present for ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Alan Connor

BREAK THIS WITH SOME EGGS? FAST The urge to time your solve Got up Had shave Did Times crossword Had another shave —ROGER MCGOUGH The wonderful 2006 documentary about crosswords, ...

epub, mobi | | 2014-02-28 | Author:Maggie Scott

Slack − this is thought to be derived from Old Norse slakki, ‘a hollow between hills’, but some meanings of the word may show influence from Scots slock and its ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

6 Lust Than lichery, that lathly cors, Come berand lyk a bagit hors; And Idilnes did him leid; Thair wes with him ane vgly sort And mony stynkand fowll tramort ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

3 Wee Beasts And lat no small beistis suffir skaith [harm] na skornis This quotation from William Dunbar, writing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, makes him sound like ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

2 In the history and dieory of literature translation has not been a subject of the first importance. It has figured marginally, if at all. The exception is the study ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik [Leech, Geoffrey]

In some instances, such as the passive construction (see 543, 613–18), it is impossible to keep the clause in subject position: It is said that fear in human beings produces ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-07 | Author:Peter Ladefoged

Articulatory Targets 165 TABLE 7.1 Contrasting bilabial and labiodental fricatives in Ewe. Voiceless bilabial fricative e!Fa! e!Fle~ ‘he polished’ ‘he bought’ Voiceless labiodental fricative e!Fa! e!fle!‡ ‘he was cold’ ‘he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Everett, Daniel L. [Everett, Daniel L.]

8 A Teenager Named Túkaaga: Murder and Society Joaquim, like the other residents of the Apurinã Indian settlement of Ponto Sete on the Maici, had arisen early and gone about ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:K. David Harrison

Once upon a time there were three brothers. They were out hunting. Suddenly three swans came flying, honking to them. The swans spent the night on the roof of their ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Robert Lane Greene [Greene, Robert Lane]

A Language for Israel, or a State for Hebrew? It is one of the ironies of history that, as Europe was learning the painful lessons of nationalism, one of the ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Greene, Robert Lane [Greene, Robert Lane]

A Language for Israel, or a State for Hebrew? It is one of the ironies of history that, as Europe was learning the painful lessons of nationalism, one of the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon

A VERSUS AN : IT’S AN HONOR AND A HELP Remember the indefinite articles from section 1-29? Because it’s tricky, I must remind you that you can’t automatically put a ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Francis Grose [Francis Grose]

K Kate A picklock. ‘’Tis a rum kate’, it is a clever picklock. Keel bullies Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels. Keelhauling A punishment in use among ...