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Caliban learns that Stephano is neither a god nor Prospero's equal in the conclusion of the play, however, and Caliban agrees to obey Prospero again.
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Oh man, thanks for ruining the ending.:uuh:
 
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ok the thing is this...i have been getting A's and miss says to bring that to an A*, i have to increase my vocabulary and use more 'sophisticated' words. how do i get to learn these words...i mean i cant memorise the thesaurus in 6 months...and it will be hard to remember anyways...any suggestion?...plus analysing media texts...i really suck at that :-\

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Faraway said:
:sl:

ok the thing is this...i have been getting A's and miss says to bring that to an A*, i have to increase my vocabulary and use more 'sophisticated' words. how do i get to learn these words...i mean i cant memorise the thesaurus in 6 months...and it will be hard to remember anyways...any suggestion?...plus analysing media texts...i really suck at that :-\

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assalaamu alaikum

mashaAllah sister, if you want to use more sophisticated words and widen your uses of vocabulary, memorizing the thesaurus is not going to work because that's just too much.

let me tell you what you can do and I'm sure that this will help inshaAllah....take an essay that you wrote and look at the dull and overused words. use a thesaurus and try to replace them with more sophicticated words. I'm not telling you to change every word, but start with a few and work your way up. The only way that you will memorise these words is by usage. Remember what you used the word for and what word did you use it to replace. With practice, this will become second nature to you and you wont even need to use the thesaurus that often anymore because after a while you will develop a better sense of how to use these words.

don't expect yourself to improve after doing this once or twice or three times. it takes a long time to go from a good writer to an outstanding writer....so just keep on writing and use your thesaurus whenever you think there might be a better word out there.

good luck!!!.......fill us in on your progress! :)
 
*noor said:
assalaamu alaikum

mashaAllah sister, if you want to use more sophisticated words and widen your uses of vocabulary, memorizing the thesaurus is not going to work because that's just too much.

let me tell you what you can do and I'm sure that this will help inshaAllah....take an essay that you wrote and look at the dull and overused words. use a thesaurus and try to replace them with more sophicticated words. I'm not telling you to change every word, but start with a few and work your way up. The only way that you will memorise these words is by usage. Remember what you used the word for and what word did you use it to replace. With practice, this will become second nature to you and you wont even need to use the thesaurus that often anymore because after a while you will develop a better sense of how to use these words.

don't expect yourself to improve after doing this once or twice or three times. it takes a long time to go from a good writer to an outstanding writer....so just keep on writing and use your thesaurus whenever you think there might be a better word out there.

good luck!!!.......fill us in on your progress! :)
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well i will try to do that as soon as i get my essays and courseworks back :mmokay: they are all with the teacher at the moment :)

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czgibson said:
Greetings,

Some writers use it to divide items in a list instead of commas, like this:

Here are the things I am going to talk about: blah; blah; and finally blah.
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Yeah I use it like that when the listed objects become sub-sentences or you would like to use multiple adjectives to describe a substantive from your list and it would be harder to notice when then next item of the list starts.

The things I'm going to list here are: the red, juicy and delicious apple I just ate; today's breakfast and the things that I ate yesterday, while meating up with John.
 
Greetings,

Well, me and my sister are having a disagreement on this.
Well, she says Envious and Jealous means the same. But i read somewhere that envious is used in a good sense however jealous is used in a negative sense.I checked oxford and it voted for my sister.

envious.. feeling or showing envy
envy...a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by another better fortune etc.
jealous...envious or resentful of a person or a person's advantages etc.

Now, what i dont get is, if jealous and envious mean the same, so what to use if we appreciate someone's quality.

e.g. I envy your position. :raging: *
I envy your position. :thumbs_up :) **

* this shows that the person is not happy at someone's better fortune.
**this shows that you are glad at his accomplishment.

Thanks in advance for the help.
Peace.
 
Greetings,
learningislam said:
envious.. feeling or showing envy
envy...a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by another better fortune etc.
jealous...envious or resentful of a person or a person's advantages etc.
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These words are quite subtle in their shades of meaning. So much so that I've never been entirely sure on the distinction between them. Not great for an English teacher, but there we go. Here's what I would say:

They can mean the same thing, as in your definitions above, but they can also be used in slightly different senses. If you look further down the list of definitions in the dictionary, you'll find this distinction:

Envy and jealousy can mean feelings of resentment because of something someone else has.

However:

Only jealous can mean resentment caused by the threat of something being taken away.

So: I'm envious of you because you have such a nice house.

Or: I'm jealous of you because you have such a nice house.

But: He was a jealous husband, because he thought other men wanted to take away his wife fom him.

I hope that helps. There may be more to it than what I've said above, but looking through various dictionaries, that seems to be the most significant difference.

So it seems you are right!

Peace
 
English/Ingrish/Ingleeshi..etc

:sl: Any brothers need help in english please post here or anyone in general need some help with english..lol im not a professional with it but im good enough alhamdulillah i also speak french alhamdulillah i need some help myself in arabic and id like to learn some other languages of our ummah its important we help eachother inshaAllah :sl:
 
sir czgibson,

i don't mean by a single 'had' usage.

But double 'had'.

for example

If you are using the 'to have' verb in the past perfect tense, you will see the strange double 'had.' For example, 'He had had a cold before he had the flu.' This means that getting and completing the cold happened BEFORE he later got the flu.
 
Greetings,
syilla said:
sir czgibson,

i don't mean by a single 'had' usage.

But double 'had'.

for example

If you are using the 'to have' verb in the past perfect tense, you will see the strange double 'had.' For example, 'He had had a cold before he had the flu.' This means that getting and completing the cold happened BEFORE he later got the flu.
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Sorry - looking back I can see I've only answered half your question. You're quite right in your explanation of 'had had'.
amani said:
would you have any experience in TESOL or TBE by any chance?
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Yes indeed. :)

Peace
 
Peace

oh cool, could you tell me what TBE would entail job wise? :?

and did you need to know another language for both TESOL and TBE or was english enough?

Thanks
 
Greetings,
amani said:
Peace

oh cool, could you tell me what TBE would entail job wise? :?

and did you need to know another language for both TESOL and TBE or was english enough?

Thanks
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First off, I should say that I don't know what TBE is, but I assumed it had something to do with Teaching English as a Foreign Language, which I do have some experience in.

I know lots of words in other languages, but English is the only language I can speak fluently. It's definitely not necessary to know another language in order to teach English.

Peace
 
Hiya :)

I just wanted to know if you know 'bout phonetics? because i might need help

Peace be upon those who follow guidance. :D
 

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