rubicund \ROO-bih-kund\, adjective:Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
The men are second cousins, around forty, resembling each other not very much, one taller and leaner, less rubicund than the other, who has just returned from California.-- John Lukacs, A Thread of Years
Rubicund from his cocktail, big, broad, lustrous with power, he exuded what Walter Pater called the "charm of an exquisite character, felt in some way to be inseparable from his person."-- Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Rubicund comes from Latin rubicundus, "red, ruddy," from rubere, "to be red."
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Phrasal Verbs for today
Account For - To explain
e.g. The mamager is accounted for the missing files.
Ache for -- Want something or someone a lot
e.g. The kid ached for the new robot.
Act on- - To take action because of something like information received
e.g. The mayor of the city acted on the sewage problem.
Act out- - Perform something with actions and gestures.
- Express an emotion in your behaviour
e.g. The witness acted out how the accident happened.
Act up- - Behave badly or strangely
e.g. The girls act up when they saw the rockstars.
Add on- - Include in a calculation
e.g. Please add on the paper clips and pens on the office supplies request.
Add up- - To make a mathematical total
- Be a satisfactory explanation for something
e.g. All of the expenses adds up to one thousand euros.
Add up to- Have a certain result
e.g. Your not being serious to your job adds up to your termination.
Aim at- - To target
e.g. The vigilant aims at the drug pushers of the city.
Allow for- - Include something in a plan or calculation
e.g. The children are allowed for picnic by themselves this weekend.
e.g. The mamager is accounted for the missing files.
Ache for -- Want something or someone a lot
e.g. The kid ached for the new robot.
Act on- - To take action because of something like information received
e.g. The mayor of the city acted on the sewage problem.
Act out- - Perform something with actions and gestures.
- Express an emotion in your behaviour
e.g. The witness acted out how the accident happened.
Act up- - Behave badly or strangely
e.g. The girls act up when they saw the rockstars.
Add on- - Include in a calculation
e.g. Please add on the paper clips and pens on the office supplies request.
Add up- - To make a mathematical total
- Be a satisfactory explanation for something
e.g. All of the expenses adds up to one thousand euros.
Add up to- Have a certain result
e.g. Your not being serious to your job adds up to your termination.
Aim at- - To target
e.g. The vigilant aims at the drug pushers of the city.
Allow for- - Include something in a plan or calculation
e.g. The children are allowed for picnic by themselves this weekend.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
SENTENCE ERRORS
1. Fragments
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence; it lacks either a subject, a verb, or both. The type of sentence fragment produced by ESL students is often a subordinate clause detached from the main clause.
Even with disguises and intricate systems of personal security.
When people eat and drink to excess.
Since the cost of living is so high in Hawaii.
Having suffered all day from a migraine headache.
The doctor, who is a prominent member of society.
2. Run-Together Sentences
When two sentences are written as one with no punctuation between (nor an appropriate conjunction), you have a run together sentence.
My back hurts it is weak.
This is my last course / graduate next month.
To correct:
a) Use an appropriate conjunction.
b) Separate the two sentences with a period.
c) Separate the two sentences with a semicolon.
3. Comma-Splice
When two sentences are separated by only a comma, the result is a comma splice.
He ate chicken that was not cooked properly, it made him sick.
/ read many books when / was a child, my favourite books were about animals.
To correct:
a) Use an appropriate conjunction.
b) Separate the two sentences with a period.
c) Change the comma to semicolon.
Source: ESL Lessons for you
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence; it lacks either a subject, a verb, or both. The type of sentence fragment produced by ESL students is often a subordinate clause detached from the main clause.
Even with disguises and intricate systems of personal security.
When people eat and drink to excess.
Since the cost of living is so high in Hawaii.
Having suffered all day from a migraine headache.
The doctor, who is a prominent member of society.
2. Run-Together Sentences
When two sentences are written as one with no punctuation between (nor an appropriate conjunction), you have a run together sentence.
My back hurts it is weak.
This is my last course / graduate next month.
To correct:
a) Use an appropriate conjunction.
b) Separate the two sentences with a period.
c) Separate the two sentences with a semicolon.
3. Comma-Splice
When two sentences are separated by only a comma, the result is a comma splice.
He ate chicken that was not cooked properly, it made him sick.
/ read many books when / was a child, my favourite books were about animals.
To correct:
a) Use an appropriate conjunction.
b) Separate the two sentences with a period.
c) Change the comma to semicolon.
Source: ESL Lessons for you
Word for the day
from: Dictionary
donnybrook \DON-ee-brook\, noun:1. A brawl; a free-for-all.2. A heated quarrel or dispute.
But this was the beginning of Tommy's years of fighting back, a period that ended in a donnybrook conducted all over the O'Connor house.-- Tracy Kidder, Home Town
Wine and talk flow freely, so much so that the meal ends with a Rooney family donnybrook over, typically enough, religion and politics.-- Howard Frank Mosher, "24 Hours in Due East, S.C.", New York Times, April 7, 1991
The author finds few villains in "West Virginia's Battle of the Books," which describes a donnybrook over the content of public school textbooks during the mid-70's in the "seemingly placid community" of Charleston, W.Va.-- Kaye Northcott, "Round Up the Usual Enigmas", New York Times, February 23, 1992
A donnybrook is so called after Donnybrook, Ireland, a suburb of Dublin that once held an annual fair known for its brawls.
donnybrook \DON-ee-brook\, noun:1. A brawl; a free-for-all.2. A heated quarrel or dispute.
But this was the beginning of Tommy's years of fighting back, a period that ended in a donnybrook conducted all over the O'Connor house.-- Tracy Kidder, Home Town
Wine and talk flow freely, so much so that the meal ends with a Rooney family donnybrook over, typically enough, religion and politics.-- Howard Frank Mosher, "24 Hours in Due East, S.C.", New York Times, April 7, 1991
The author finds few villains in "West Virginia's Battle of the Books," which describes a donnybrook over the content of public school textbooks during the mid-70's in the "seemingly placid community" of Charleston, W.Va.-- Kaye Northcott, "Round Up the Usual Enigmas", New York Times, February 23, 1992
A donnybrook is so called after Donnybrook, Ireland, a suburb of Dublin that once held an annual fair known for its brawls.
Idiom for today
on ice
To say that a plan or project is put on ice means that all further action has been postponed for an indefinite period of time.
►Plans for a nuclear power station have been put on ice.
To say that a plan or project is put on ice means that all further action has been postponed for an indefinite period of time.
►Plans for a nuclear power station have been put on ice.
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