档案2007年4月

感叹词: 分享您的情感

Dictionary.com给我们以下定义为 感叹词: “词或词,或者一些噪声,用于表现出惊奇、沮丧、痛苦或者其他感觉和情感”。

“Oh亲爱,因此是感叹词是。  我未曾体会”。

上述句子的“Oh亲爱的” (或“Oh,亲爱”)零件代表[标记]感叹词[/tag]。

感叹词大概是最安全的,当使用在讲话的英语时,并且,除非您想要beÂ讽刺或嘲笑,您在正式文字大概不会使用一。  我可能错误,并且在正式文字也许有合法的原因使用感叹词。  即:

“中止!   没有进一步读,直到您完成了最后步”。

可能那工作。  如果您写着一个指南关于怎样拆除炸弹的雷管。

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丢失在翻译? 鲍里斯·叶利钦和比尔·克林顿

前苏联总统[标记]鲍里斯叶利钦[/tag]和前美国这录影。 标记]比尔·克林顿[/tag]总统[显示怎么你不可能是肯定的,如果翻译是正确的。 仔细地请听开头少量线。 如果您必须,再观看它。 录影开始在持续的页。
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这英国是一种坚硬语言

或它是否是正义年老设置?

我是一个说母语的人,并且一般一台好拚音器,得到我的K-12教育在60年代的宽宏改革之前破坏了一切在公众教育。

但我已经今天必须查找二个词确定我的记忆是正确的。 一个是 消遣. 我不可能说服它不是 消遣. 通过时间 我知道会必须是形容词,因此我把那扔出去。 秒钟是acquiescence. 我不可能记住是否有a c 在以后 s我证实有通过去dictionary.com。

The point here is that I can, as i age, see more clearly why people have a hard time with this language of ours. Fortunately, we now have resources at our (keyboard) fingertips to help us out. Maybe some memory-enhancing pills would help as well.

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Turn Off the Lights on Your Way Out

The headline is a non pre-sequitur, whatever the term for that is, but my subject is light, in a way anyway.

My penpal in Taiwan, who is also an English teacher and whose grammar (learned as a second language) is infinitely better than most native Americans, even college graduates, was perplexed when I used the phrase “[tag]lightbulb went off[/tag].”  She thought it should be “lightbulb came (or went) on.”  Made sense.

That got me thinking, so I scoured the Internet for about 10 minutes (figuring that was about all the subject was worth) to find the derivation of the phrase, but I failed.  The best I could conclude was that it derives from the days of those old flashbulbs that would definitely go off in a flash, thus leading to the phrase “lightbulb went off,” indicating a flash of realization.

Anybody got a better idea of the roots of the phrase?  If you do, please post a comment.

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Neither/Nor and Either/Or

These two–neither/nor and either/or–are known as correlative conjunctions.

Where most people get tripped up in using these conjunctions is in verb tense and pronoun usage.

Let me give you a couple of examples:

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