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آموزش زبان انگلیسی
جنبه هاي سانسور نشده زبان انگليسي
Uncensored English UE03 - idioms - kick ass
This podcast covers the phrase to kick (someone’s / something’s) ass and kick-ass as an adjective. First we need to talk about the ass part. It can refer to a real ass (butt or bum), but usually the ass is metaphorical. That is, it’s not a question of a real-world, physical ass; the ass stands for something else. In fact, all usages of kick ass that don’t involve a physical foot connecting to a physical ass are metaphorical figures of speech.
For example, “We got our ass(es) kicked in the football game last night” means “The other team beat us by a good margin.” It’s unlikely that any team member’s ass actually had contact with a foot.
The expression kick ass is used as an adjective and in verb phrases. First we’ll look at the verbs...
ترجمه آهنگ زیبای مدونا به نام خواهی دید از آلبوم Something To Remember سال 1995
Madonna - You'll See
نگران دایره لغات فعال خود ذر هنگام خواندن یا شنیدن مطالب انگلیسی نباشید
Don't worry about your active
vocabulary
Many advanced English learners have a large "passive vocabulary", but they worry about the size of their "active vocabulary". They can understand many difficult English words when reading or listening, but they don't use most of them when speaking or writing in English. They feel this is a problem. They would like to use all the difficult words that they know.
If you are a learner who worries about his active vocabulary, this article may convince you to stop worrying.
People understand many more words than they use in their own conversations. One's passive vocabulary is much larger than one's active vocabulary. The total number of words actively used in one's whole life is much smaller than the total number of words understood in one's whole life.
This statement has nothing to do with foreign languages. It is about how people use their native language.
Myself و ديگر ضماير انعكاسي
Myself and Other Reflexive Pronouns
by Elaine Ernst Schneider
January 31, 2001 rev. May 2003
"I myself have done that."
"Jim, Susie, and myself were planning a trip."
"He wasn't even sure hisself how to go about it."
"You need to give that to myself when you are done."
"They decided just to do that theirselves."
Which ones are correct? Which ones are unacceptable? Why?
The words "myself," "himself," "herself," "ourselves," and "themselves" are reflexive pronouns. Reflexive use is not often addressed in grammar books. We find present, past, future, and perfect tenses. And we find the various cases of pronouns. Both of those are enough to keep the average person confused! Then the "myself" word rears its ugly head and there are few books that offer rules for its use. Let me offer some guidelines....
The following quotations are taken from official
court records across the nation, showing how funny and embarrassing it is that
recorders operate at all times in courts of law, so that even the slightest
inadvertence is preserved for posterity.
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Lawyer: "Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first
marriage terminated?"
Witness: "By death."
Lawyer: "And by whose death was it terminated?"
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Accused, Defending His Own Case: "Did you get a good
look at my face when I took your purse?"
The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to ten years
in jail.
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Lawyer: "What is your date of birth?"
Witness: "July 15th."
Lawyer: "What year?"
Witness: "Every year..."
Why is writing an essay so frustrating?
Learning how to write an essay can be a maddening, exasperating process, but it doesn't have to be. If you know the steps and understand what to do, writing can be easy and even fun.
This site, offers a ten-step process that teaches students how to write an essay. Links to the writing steps are found on the blow for download as PDF.
