Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Christopher Gottschalk

If the Other Person is Uninterested Sometimes a conversation just cannot get started. You have asked the ritual questions, shifted to open-ended questions in an attempt to draw the person ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-14 | 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 ...
( Category: Classics July 27,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-31 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler [Adler, Mortimer J.]

2 Let us turn now to some general rules applicable to all types of serious conversation. Some of these also apply to playful, social conversation, which I will deal with ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 27,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:King, Charles [King, Charles]

And very slowly was the blanket raised and lowered twice. Then came two or three quicker movements. Then the blaze spoke untrammelled, and all eyes were on 'Tonio's torch, and ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:June Casagrande

Verb Phrases We can break verb phrases up into two groups: finite and nonfinite. Think of the finite ones as verbs conjugated to work with a subject. Troy studies. (Finite ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 26,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Kasia Wezowski

Arms and legs crossed Creating distance, negative attitude Legs horizontal at 90 degrees Ready for confrontation or argument Crossed ankles Defensiveness, something to hide Closed eyes Creating distance, lack of ...
( Category: Skills July 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William F Buckley Jr. [Buckley, William F Jr.]

My next proposition (2) is that The intellectual inferiority of the defenders of capitalism is less critical a factor in contemporary circumstances than the moral inferiority of capitalists. Hayek has ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 25,2018 )
epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael C. Corballis [Corballis, Michael C.]

Beyond Apes If we go back in time to the point, around six or seven million years ago, when our forebears, the hominins, began to diverge from the lineage that ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald E. Westlake

* * * They Also Serve, by Donald E. Westlake A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Frank O'Connor [O’Connor, Frank]

That sense of the group makes it almost impossible for Kipling or his readers to believe in individual loneliness, and when it does appear it is always in some monstrous ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate L. Turabian

14: Revising Sentences 14.1 Focus on the First Seven or Eight Words of a Sentence 14.1.1 Make Subjects Short and Concrete 14.1.2 Avoid Interrupting Subjects and Verbs with More than ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 21,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Merriam-Webster Inc.

jiminy See JEEPERS. [alter. of Gemini] jingo See CHAUVINISM. [fr. Jingo supporter of the British belligerent attitude toward Russia in 1878, fr. jingo (a mild oath), prob. euphemism for Jesus; ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses July 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Esther Schor

Lidia Zamenhof, 1925 [Österreichische Nationalbibliothek] And she urged them to bring into their children’s lives children of other ethnicities, nationalities, and races. This, they could—indeed, should—do through Esperanto, which was ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 21,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Raymond Williams [Williams, Raymond]

L LABOUR Among the two earliest examples of the use of labour in English are ‘bigin a laboure … and make a toure’ and ‘quit o labur, and o soru’ ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-19 | Author:Dawn Hogue

Create your own list of universal truths that you believe are central to our universal social contract. Why not simply be a muckraker, or a whistle-blower? It is sometimes politically ...
( Category: Advanced Placement July 20,2018 )