... If you’re “uninterested” in something, that means it doesn’t interest you; it bores you That s the meaning the sentence requires here “Disinterested” means something quite different that someone ... here “Continuously” refers to something that goes on without any interruption whatsoever “Continually” refers to something that recurs at frequent intervals In this case, the meaning is that many ... applied in a positive sense to things that are so good they’re almost unbelievable—his luck is incredible—but the true sense of the word is “not believable.” “Incredulous,” on the other hand, means...
... Why: These words are virtual opposites “Ingenuous” means artless or naïve “Ingenious” means clever and resourceful, often with a dash of trickiness thrown inThe meaning of our sentence here is that ... imminent from the moment he lit the match to look for oil 93 Ingenious vs Ingenuous Don’t Say: They crafted an ingenuous plan for the takeover Say Instead: They crafted an ingenious plan for the ... verb, meaning the action of providing someone with counsel or suggestions on how she should behave “Advice” is the noun meaning the suggestions themselves You advise a person to something That...
... literacy inSpanishand then added English Now, the students were being taught to read and write inEnglish from the beginning Even though all their instruction had been in English, they could ... together while he or one of the students tracked thewords Since the poems and charts were related to the theme they were studying, students were able to understand theEnglishand build their English ... sure they understand these concepts Knowing the title andthe author is part of the concepts about print required for first graders He points to the cover 20 TEACHING READING AND WRITING IN SPANISH...
... sharing with the world — andthe world inevitably interprets, indeed sometimes shifts and distorts, our original meaning Examining the strategic and tactical use of language in politics, business ... Preventing Message Mistakes Few words — indeed, few messages of any kind — whether in politics or inthe business world, are ingested in isolation Their meanings are shaped and shaded by the regional ... Sound and Texture Matter The sounds and texture of language should be just as memorable as thewords themselves A string of wordsthat have thesame first letter, thesame sound or thesame syllabic...
... WORDSTHATMEAN A LOT – Matching Questions Practice Activities Match the word inthe first column with the corresponding word inthe second column Now that you know these short but important words, ... yourself the challenge of both listening for them when you watch the news, for example, and inserting them into your own common speech Confide in your friend that things have really gone awry in your ... superior status, the opposite of thewordsinthe group bane Bane is fatal injury or the cause of ruin or death, the opposite of the positive, redemptive wordsinthe group awry Awry means turned...
... proliferation and metaplasia involving the terminal air-space (13) Others, though, are of the opinion thatthe scar represents a desmoplastic reaction and is the result, rather than the cause, of ... however, andthe two conditions coexist inthesame lobe, the time required for the diagnosis of cancer is often considerable Outstanding progress in imaging techniques has, though, led to increasing ... observed in five patients (9.8%), and mediastinal lymphadenopathy in 42 (82.4%) The stage of non-small-cell lung cancer was I in ten patients, II in two, IIIA in four, IIIB in 11, and IV in 20 At the...
... up I was sitting next to a boy inthe exam He told me the answers The boy I ……………………………………………………… The boy I was sitting next to inthe exam told me the answers The days get colder and colder Each ... Taking the job will ……………………………………………… Taking the job will mean moving to London A week ago today we were in China This ………………………………… This time last week we were in China 10 Mary hasn’t finished ... by the police Nga is looking forward to meeting her aunt again He is so old that he can't have more children They are being made to study hard by their teacher Let all the washing be done There...
... 12410 genes for D purpureum and 13992 for D discoideum) - and to a great extent they are transcribed inthesame groups andinthesame temporal order during development inthe two species Almost ... poly-asparagine tracts found in thousands of Dictyostelium proteins There is interesting data inthe transcriptome analysis andthe authors provide a nice tool, DictyExpress [7], to explore them, even for ... eliminate repetitive elements would be eliminated This means that actin genes, of which there are a number, would not be counted, nor would the transcripts coding for the mysterious poly-asparagine...
... et al Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Reference Stelfox HT, Ahmed SB, Khandwala F, Zygun D, Shahpori R, Laupland K: The epidemiology of intensive care ... R, Laupland K: The epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatremia and hypernatremia in medical–surgical intensive care units Crit Care 2008, 12:R162 Page of (page number not for citation...
... attended the function Fondness for She has great fondness for children Infatuation for His infatuation for his master’s daughter led him astray Prepared for We are prepared for everything Qualified ... Qualified for He is qualified for the job Respect for I have great respect for him Be first to know when grammar rules change! Sign up to our newsletter here: englishgrammar.org (It's free) Powered...
... wine “Would you like a glass of wine?”, he said 28 They changed their plan because the weather was bad Due to bad weather, they changed their plan 29 The increasing number of cars has caused serious ... her mind There’s no point trying to make her change her mind 17 He was driving very fast because he didn’t know the road was icy If he had known the road was icy, he wouldn’t have been driving ... seen her since we left school The last time I saw her was when we left school 19 I get to work in twenty minutes It It takes me 20 minutes to get to work 20 “Don’t walk on the grass”, the gardener...
... to the toiling and dying types who made it over to America And once in America, people divided once again: you could say they became the poor andthe rich The losers and winners The artists and ... the faultlines within an increasingly class-stratified culture, inthatthe presence of Irish immigrants in England exacerbates the crisis of theEnglish social body Andin locating the failure ... catholic Ireland to England My first aim in this chapter is to examine the place thatthe family occupies in Burke’s thinking on Jacobinism and Ireland, analyzing the gendered rhetoric of the prophylactic...
... authoritative inthe Middle Ages called their authority into question When combined with the propaganda potential of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a major force behind the ... extinguished the public sphere inthe Netherlands in both and , in Italy, in revolutionary France and, to a slightly lesser extent, in Napoleonic Germany Inthe Napoleonic period, the ... Dublin He has published many works on both French and Irish history, including The Newspaper Press inthe French Revolution (), Ireland andthe French Revolution () andThe Terror in the...
... clear and informative explanations of the powerful concepts and tools of finance and accounting In this world of technology andthe Internet, while most of the underlying concepts remain fixed, the ... sales.” In accounting, the word net means “after deductions.” So “gross profit” means income before deducting operating expenses By thesame token, “net income” means income after deducting operating ... being serviced Maintaining prices but reducing the quantity of product inthe package Candy bar manufacturers and other makers of packaged foods often use this method Initiating or increasing...
... metaphorical meaning features of the Containing Spring/Autumn and Other Words word group containing xuân that are examined by us: a) Word Groups Containing Spring (WGCS) and Others - As classifying the ... by interlingual the readers and help them better their competence in communicating interferences in their writing, speaking and translation, and enhance and translating their abilities to use them ... Vietnamese andEnglishthat are related to the research In this - Expressing the senses: the meaning related to season- the section we also refer to the theories and viewpoints of some linguists...
... left his key inthe room d- The Perfect Continuous Infinitive clauses Ex: I’d like to have been sitting there when she walked in e- The Present Infinitive Passive clauses Ex: The next thing to be ... finite Clauses English non – finite clauses can be at initial, medial and final positions inthe sentence - Initial All non – finite clauses can be at the beginning of the sentence Ex: Studying ... thatthe Chapter presents the review of previous studies related to the understanding,using and translating English non – finite clauses may objectives and some linguists’ theoretical viewpoints...
... greet the murmuring andthe crackling andthe tinkling andthe crying andthe sighing and rumbling andthe roaring of background noise? The question is rushing towards me; but am I to presume that ... subject, inthe object, inthe observed, inthe observer, inthe transmitter andinthe receiver; it is in being, in appearing andin knowing as well; moreover, it crosses the most predominant divisions ... wondering if there is something happening with this poorly grounded indefinite phenomenon that is asking for a re-thinking of what is involved inthe attainment of knowledge Remaining 'up in the...
... relationship with the central bank andthe ministry The IMF has been recommending the Government to substantially review the SBV and Credit Institutions Laws Since the SSC was merged into the MOF in February ... management instruments 32 Other institutional investors and non-bank financial intermediaries are still embryonic In contrast to the insurance industry, the pension fund industry lags behind with ... provinces and ministries on the basis of the size of the quota that each provincial government andthe respective provincial branch of the CSRC had agreed upon through negotiation for their province...
... accommodation in Zimbabwe acquainting them with the purposes of the research proposed and seeking their cooperation At the time there was no central organisation, including the National Council for the ... differences inthe type and extent of morbidity in different social classes in Zimbabwe in general, andinthe elderly in institutions and homes in particular Race is no longer a deciding factor in most ... joined thesame burial society and they had agreed thatinthe event of one of them dying the othec would quickly go 82 Mdnw NJIIII'IITll to the burial society members to infonn them about the death...