AS I WAS GOING TO ST. IVES…
This fascinated me when I was a child…
The St. Ives Riddle
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Image courtesey of Stevyn Colgan
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WHAT IS A PRONOUN?
Examples
Who says so?
That reminds me of something.
She looked at them.
Take it or leave it (Impersonal pronoun).
I like you
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun (including a noun phrase consisting of a single noun) with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English. The replaced phrase [...]
AUGURI BEFANA!!!
The Epiphany is a typical figure of folklore in some parts of Italy central Apennine, spread throughout Italy. It belongs to a folk figure, and the dispensers of gifts associated with Christmas.
According to tradition, The Epiphany visits children the night dell’epifania (Jan. 6) to fill stockings, hung from the fireplace that children specially left that [...]
A PARAPHRASE IS…
your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.
one legitimate way (when accompanied by accurate documentation) to borrow from a source.
a more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea.
Paraphrasing is a valuable skill because…
it is better than quoting information from an [...]
THE BUTLER DID IT!
A famous phrase, the butler did it! Usually associated with a murder mystery. Butler’s are British icons, but what is a butler and what do they do?
A butler is a household servant, usually at the head of a large staff of residential workers. In the past, houses of great wealth would designate one butler to [...]
BTW I’D LOVE A CUPPA CHA
“I’d love a cuppa cha” Irish slang also used by us brits, I’ve used it many a time, meaning I would love a cup of tea, not only do we have slang in written and spoken English but internet language too. It can be useful knowing at least some of the different forms as to [...]
HERE’S WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
The English Teacher wishes you a prosperous 2009! As tradition wants it, something new. I am glad to announce my makeover, after weeks of switching and swapping templates, here we finally have the end result.
A special thanks to Kay for making all this happen and for putting up with me LOL to all my readers [...]
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH
This is The Queen’s Christmas Day Speech.
The Queen’s (King’s) Christmas Message is a broadcast by Queen Elizabeth II made to the Commonwealth at Christmas. The tradition began in 1932 with a radio broadcast by King George V on the BBC Empire Service. Today the broadcast is made on television and radio via various providers.
The idea [...]
HAPPY XMAS FROM THE ENGLISH TEACHER
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas (Xmas=is an abbreviated term we native speakers use, incase you were wondering) I would like to thank my regular visitors and readers, my students and my colleagues and friends who have put up with me or stood by me, and as we say in the UK anyone else [...]
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Christmas carols are based on Christian lyrics and relate, in the main, to the Nativity. Christmas carols were introduced in to church services by St Francis of Assisi in the 12th century. As for the word carols, “carol” is a derivative of the French word caroller, the interpretation of which means dancing around in a [...]
