
“Read the sentences below and indicate whether they are referring to a current moment present (ahora) action, to habitual/recurrent (habitual) actions, or to an action in the near future (futuro).”
My Spanish textbook….
“In standard British English, r is only pronounced before a vowel sound” (Practical English Usage) This does not bode well.
“I started in the underpalace, which had so often been a haven for me in the old days, and discovered that it had indeed been entirely abandoned.”
Welp. Thanks for that. I’m not going to interpret that because that is a disappointment I just do not need.
“Just as interestingly, Sarah could not have been simply imitating her parents, memorizing verbs with the -s’s pre-attached.” (Pinker’s The Language Instinct)
I’d like to think that my sex life would not be in imitation of my parents’, and I’d also like to not reflect on what I might know about their sex life.
“Equal.” HA! A one word sentence, courtesy of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. From “Sunset Song” in the chapter Ploughing :D
“‘Private dick, huh?’ he grunted impassively.” - Raymond Chandler, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot
I WIN.
Yes, yes you do.
“We got to let that burn out now.” — Lord of the Flies, William Golding
D8
“Now he looked defeated, his limbs trembling with such weariness it was only by leaning on his staff that he was even able to remain upright.”
“Aunt Petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second room and made up a bed for Dudley on the moth-eaten sofa.”
Shit.
(why yes, I am reading Harry Potter to my 4-year-old son. Something tells me my sex life for the next year would be much more interesting if I’d gone for the book that is actually the closest. That, however, would be the one I’m writing, and I suspect that would be cheating. But out of curiosity… “Beside, he didn’t have protective ear and eye covering for another person.” Er, well… that could be… interesting.)
“I am here to enjoy the sportive, not the cultural aspects of the resort.” -The Rowan, paperback version, Anne McCaffery
…I am not certain what this even means.
“It was the handsome man.”
Y’ALL MAD? ignore the fact that it’s about the craiglist killer
(Source: loveclaire)
«homens magros, pode acontecer a qualquer momento» translation: skinny men, can happen at any moment.
“That and the fact my life is utterly crap.” oh my god hahaha
“Now that I was up and about, now that the day was alive, the dead of night seemed a long way away, and the memory of...
A student experimenting with it might be forgiven and simply diceplined but fora an adult to be activley teaching a...
“Savage Model 6 Automatic Repeating Rifle” (it’s like a gun handbook by the way) This sounds uncomfortably troubling.
edge.” - Transformers Exodus Oh My God…
It gazed at Sophie a moment longer. not to bad.
“Then, quite without warning, something more unsettling than even the most battering bump took place.” … Not sure how to...
“It made me so nervous I nearly went crazy.” The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
“From 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., they taped fourteen takes of a rhythm track.” 100 Best Beatles Songs: An Informed Fan’s...
“aliens fly among us” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN I HOOK UP WITH AN ALIEN LOKI OR MAYBE THOR EVEN WOULD BE OKAY
“Let’s do it!” -Fahrenheit 451. FUCKING YES. LET US DO IT.
‘My, I’m thirsty,’ I said and gulped it down. (Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and...Bible of...
“Usually it was like spillage— cold and heavy, slippery and gray— but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise...
“Bisec’tion, s. Division into two equal parts” O-Oh okay. The closet thing to me was a 1912 dictionary. XD;
“They spun around in surprise when the door sprang open and a masked mouse in a silk kimono rushed into the room.”...
‘As we shall see, even the dream that supposedly proves the unconscious may be another manifestation.’
Aunt Petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second room and made up a bed for Dudley on the moth-eaten sofa. [[…That...
“Zjazd na wyspie wiślanej w Raciążu, na który król udał się koło Bożego Ciała, odbywał się pod złą wróżbą i nie...
matter. The limit of an addition is equal to the addition of the limits. (Screw the fact that I’m studying maths.)
“God with all the powers attributed to spirit, is but the perfection of matter.”
“—swell with new arrivals, dissolve...form in the same breath— already there
“Hey! Look! Over there, it’s what’s-her-name!” Wow okay
“Still we may hope to meet again.” Return of the King is telling me to find a one night stand, and then hope to meet...
“The door to the room burst open, and a tall, distinguished-looking man strode into the room.” Sounds promising.
Lmao @ the notes on this
“was only ten, a skinny girl on a stolen horse with a dark forest ahead of her and men behind her who would gladly cut...
“For a few moments, Peeta and I take in the scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his...
“Stir before serving.” hmmmmm…
….horror stories about parochial schools
“You have the key, Senor?” he asked, except in that British public school accent it came out sounding like what you...
Chocolate Bread Pudding…
“Now, if I were to hear anybody speak slightly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for...