Members Charbo Posted February 25, 2009 Members Share Posted February 25, 2009 Tell me then' date=' what is it you have been doing with your time away if not reading that book? :Green[/quote'] She has trouble with the big words . . . like "the," "a," "or," "and." :pmpkn: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ashlee Posted February 25, 2009 Members Share Posted February 25, 2009 Suure I do. That's why I'm in the top English class at my school. And why we are reading such classics as Madame Bovary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Charbo Posted February 25, 2009 Members Share Posted February 25, 2009 Yeah, state school. :Bleh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ashlee Posted February 25, 2009 Members Share Posted February 25, 2009 :Bleh right back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Charbo Posted February 25, 2009 Members Share Posted February 25, 2009 See you tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 What's the best book you've read lately? (Notice how I tried to avoid those difficult words?) :Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ashlee Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 Drums of Change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryNumbers Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 How about this difficult word? Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that's probably true of many languages.) There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has a real special meaning.. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this up is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UPabout UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time is UP , so its time for me to shut UP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ashlee Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 wow. you have alot of spare time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Ashlee Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 I have also recently reread little house on the prairie. It is funny to go through and spot mistakes. For instance, a Sunday School teacher saying the shortest verse in the Bible was just three little words. :loco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 It's funny what you can catch reading some books. It's also fun to go back and reread books you've read before and discover what you've missed or forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members John81 Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 I've got to choose a new book to read. I've finally got several books here to read and now I'm having a hard time deciding what order to read them in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ashlee Posted February 26, 2009 Members Share Posted February 26, 2009 Close your eyes and pick randomly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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