Have you ever seen a ghost? Maybe it is a frightening experience, thus I met a grisly wizard and a gruesome bat, these are the pictures I took of them...terrifying, aren´t they?
In memory of the great orator of all times Charlie Kirk, his untimely death will never erase his legacy. In many English speaking countries the contribution of oracy is very important in the academic grades, also there are Mediterranean or Latinamerican countries where rhetorics is important as in Italy, Chile or Argentina, and according with the Classic education of Greek and Romans there were three great skills that every person should strive to excel such as literacy, numeracy and oracy, thus basic education from Classic era to Middle Ages, Renaissance, Modern Age till recent times has been focused on reading, writing, arithmetic and oracy, the four R, and nowadays we would include also ICT (how to use Information and Computer Technology)and cultural and civic literacy too. The art of rhetoric was taught since ancient times and nowadays to ability to converse and debate is an asset in enterprises and the professional field. Besides it is an asset to master a foreign langu...
Gothic literature is a genre which started in Europe in the eighteenth century due to the success of pseudomedieval novels set in castles with an evil character who seduces or kidnaps a lady (damsel in distress) and the setting is usually a gloomy castle, dark forest or cemeteries, in an atmosphere of mystery and terror. More elements of Gothic genre are omens (presagios), curses, nightmares, supernatural and paranormal activities (ghosts, spirits, witches, wizards, etc.), passionate romance or a couple of lovers in distress, anti hero or flawed (imperfecto) protagonist and a villain usually autocratic male or a monster, vampire or another weird character. The first Gothic novel is named "The Castle of Otranto" (1764) by Horace Walpole, later many authors achieved great success such as Mary Shelley in "Frankenstein", Sir Walter Scott in "The Bride of Lammermor", 1819, Edgar Allan Poe in his series of horror tales such as "The Premature Burial",...
Adjectives add more features to the nouns, in English they always precede the noun and they have no gender (masculine nor feminine) nor number (singular or plural), but they can be graded in the comparative or superlative forms if the adjectives are short, if they have got only one or two syllables, the adjectives from three syllables onwards just place the word "more +adjective+than" (más Adj. que). There are many types of comparisons in sentences using adjectives. The comparison of superiority always follow the following structure: A + verb + short adj.-er than / more long adjective than+ B The short adjectives ending in only a consonant, they double last consonant and add-er: big= bigger, fat= fatter, thin= thinner. Also the final "y" is changed to "i" in adjectives: funny= funnier , ugly= uglier. A or B are the two people, animals or things that are being compared. There are examples here below: "Our kids are smarter than theirs. Crows are...
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