ALISON REDFORD POPS UP IN OTTAWA, SEES SHADOW - Our dethroned monarch emerged from the murk this week to offer her thoughts to the media on various
subjects following a speech at a Conference Board of...
Not exact matches
People «believe» all sorts of nonsense, and their «beliefs» are
subject to change on a regular basis (listen to any John Kerry
speech, in which he begins every other paragraph with «I believe...»
followed by his belief of the week.
Iain, I included the
following text in a post on my blog (www.rightthinking.co.uk) this afternoon: «Today it's Harriet Harman's turn, trying to play the class warrior with a
speech about narrowing the UK class gap — a
subject upon which this privately educated niece of a Countess can no doubt speak with experience and authority.
For more than 100 years, Poeppel reflected,
speech experimentation had
followed a simple plan: Ask a
subject to listen to a specific word or phrase, measure the
subject's response to that word (for instance, how long it takes him to repeat it aloud), and then demonstrate how that response is connected to activity in the brain.
This resource includes 100 cards that cover the
following topics: * Types of nouns, * Adjectives, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners and conjunctions, * Singular and plural, * Comparative and superlative adjectives, * Adjective phrases, * Past and present tense, * Complements and link verbs, * Active and passive voice, * Auxiliary and main verbs, * Adverbial phrases, * Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, * Questions, statements, exclamations and commands, *
Subject and verb agreement, * Simple and complex sentences, * Narrative voice, * Negative and positive sentences, * Direct and reported
speech,... and more!
In the Charter of the Moscow Noble Guesthouse (school for noblemen) the
following literary activities were spread among the students: «
speeches about scientific and moral
subjects, analyses of their own compositions, analyses of the best Russian writers» (Ibidem, p. 435).