... is a loss of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which relies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead. When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears,...
... Slinkies,sloths, or stranded jellyfish, and thousands of other words just as great. Seriously. Rich with onomatopoeia, recombina-tions, and words lent by other languages, the English lan-guage has ... organize the brain;it makes possible both learning and memory.Feel free to use weird words or even to make words up, anidea of which I was reminded by the word “flob” in the lastitem. Did you ... until you re-ally know—and, of course, to put what you know into words. It requires a certain trust, to be a reader.Once the words are in print, however, it’s the writerwho has to trust, because...
... man21be69make117year22at70thing118came23one71see119show24have72him120every25this73two121good26from74has122me27or75look123give28had76more124our29by77day125under30hot78could126name31word79go127very32but80come128through33what81did129just34some82number130form35we83sound131sentence36can84no132great37out85most133think38other86people134say39were87my135help40all88over136low41there89know137line42when90water138differ43up91than139turn44use92call140cause45your93first141much46how94who142mean47said95may143before 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 1 - 250 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English LearnersRank ... pattern293horse339fire385slow294cut340south386center295sure341problem387love 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 251 - 500 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English LearnersRank ... 620floor530felt576kept621either531perhaps577glass622result532pick578grass623burn533sudden579cow624hill534count580job625safe535square581edge626cat536reason582sign627century537length583visit628consider538represent584past629type539art585soft630law540subject586fun631bit541region587bright632coast542energy588gas633copy543hunt589weather634phrase544probable590month635silent545 bed 591 million 636 tall1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 501 - 725 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English LearnerstRank...
... whole paragraphs. But do you knowwhat those squiggles and slashes and XXXs do? They changeyour words and ideas, develop them, reorder them, dismem-ber them, turn them inside out, or obliterate ... was right, and I’d latercome to see as much. But not without a fight. After all, thesewere my words my ideas, mine, me. Every word became abattle, and poor Elise was left to explain why she ... But one way or theother, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on thesliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctionsyou’ll find in these...
... sitting—about 25 minutes. 400Must-Have Words is also highly effective in the TOEFL-prep classroom.Each chapter begins with a list of 10 target words. These words aredefined and used in sample ... . . . . . . . . . . .195400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199ContentsixLESSONTime EfficiencyTarget Words 1.adjust6.maximize2.arbitrary7.parallel3.denominator8.proportion4.exponentially9.rate5.infinitesimal10.sequenceDefinitions ... sentences. Usage tips are given for many words, as are any commonly used parts of speech related to the target word.Following these definitions, the words are practiced in three exercises.TOEFL...
... English words are small ones. And those small words which occur most often in our speech, reading, and writing—are relatively few in number. Just ten words account for 25 percent of all the words ... have only one sylla-ble. Fifty words account for 50 percent of all the words in our speech, and they, too, all have only one syllable. Two of the top six words we use in speech and writ-ing ... tell you a secret—I can read words of one letter! Isn’t that grand?” It turned out that the White Queen and I weren’t the only ones who were finding one- letter words to be grand. All on its...
... word, as opposed to a captured fugitive. The distinction between domesticated words and captured fugitives is a blurry one, for sure. Some words that have been domesticated thor-oughly enough ... dialect, and other kinds of non-dictionary words, how vague—or naive—people at the time tended to be in their thinking about non-dictionary words. During and between the two world wars, fine English-speaking ... HAVE A WORD?k 127 People who start thinking about words are likely to find themselves, pretty soon, thinking about words about words. You never know: it might even happen to you. TWELVE...
... differ between OECD nations and emerging market nations. How well is the estimated relationship maintained in the second stage of our analysis? We next estimate the effect of the interaction between ... models with lagged averages of the key independent variables. Let us also note that the correlation between various indicators of CAPITAL and CURRENT are very high (please see Appendix Table A3), ... .01 a The results reported on these sections use centered variables to avoid multicollinearity between the first order terms and the interaction term. b ∆Capital(s-1) is not significant on...
... 6ResearchElectronic patient record use during ward rounds: a qualitative study of interaction between medical staffCecily Morrison1, Matthew Jones2, Alan Blackwell1 and Alain Vuylsteke31Computer ... for single users rather than for groups, we aimed tounderstand the differences in interaction between members of amultidisciplinary team during ward rounds using an electronic,as opposed to ... iMDsoft; Needham; Massachusetts; USA), which wasdeployed bed by bed across the unit on 6 November. Between the funding approval and the deployment, an implementationsteering group established a...
... an-tioxidative activity (CAT, GSHpx) values between the patients with anti-CCP(+) and those with anti-CCP(-). Spearman’s correlation showed positive correla-tions between serum anti-CCP antibody levels ... relation-ship between serum anti-CCP antibody positivity and whole blood, serum and synovial fluid oxidant as well as antioxidant capacity in patients with RA, and we found positive correlations between ... relationships between anti-CCP antibody existence and increased MPO and MDA levels (oxidant activity) in the synovial fluid of patients with RA. But there were no relationships between anti-CCP...
... explained by changes in the balance between CD4+ and CD8+ ef-fector and regulatory cell subsets [20]. Although the mechanisms underlying the association between pso-riasis and cardiovascular ... in the pathogenesis of psoria-sis [48]. Also, the circulating IL-12 is thought to be the link between inflammation and Th1-type cytokine production in coronary atherosclerosis [32]. Finally, ... of psoriatic plaque or atherosclerotic plaque. In addition to the critical role of interaction between LFA-1 and its ligand, ICAM-1, the interac-tion of CD2 and its ligand, LFA-3 is also important...