We are faced with a grammar guide developed specifically for elementary-level students that will be complementary to the grammar that the course offers on the platform. The student will take into account that they will face a language whose structure in the sentences is completely different from that of Spanish and that many names and adjectives are used differently.In short, although it is convenient to have certain notions of Spanish grammar, it must be clear that on many occasions we cannot transfer them to the case of English.
222 Words to Use Instead of “Said” (Infographic)
Repeating the word "said" too often can get annoying. Here are 222 words to use instead. Not all of them are synonyms but alternatives that can be used to give more color and expression to your writing. Use them with discretion as some words only apply to certain situations.
On New Year’s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight, they barely escaped on a freighter—the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another.
After taking you on a walk through the woods, past the idyllic scenery of your holiday locations, across mountain streams filtering pure and refreshing water, two metaphoric stories will evoke a scene as you would experience it in a dream. They also reach out to your intuitive intelligence, spontaneity, self-confidence and the natural stress-relieving behaviour of certain animals. Gradually, like a pilot in charge of your own destiny, you will be flying your own small plane through the clouds of your existence.
In the Three Gables estate of the Leonides family, someone has poisoned old Aristide. Suspicion falls on his very young wife, bound to inherit a fortune. But criminologist Charles Hayward has his doubts about the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as this one, no one's on the level.
