Prepositional Phrases News
- “Back To” Hope Wednesday, August 27, 2008 @ 11:46PMAfter two full minutes of applause from the convention floor, Bill Clinton in his speech tonight vouched for Barack Obama, saying, “Everything I learned in my eight years as president and in the work I’ve done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job.”
- THE QUALITY OF LIGHT IN ALABAMA Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 4:13PMReview Date: MAY 27, 2008 Publisher: Xlibris (134 pp.) Price (hardback): $29.99 Price (paperback): $19.99 Publication Date: December 12, 2007 ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4257-6198-1 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-4257-6196-7 Category: AUTHORS Classification: POETRY
- Thursday, July 31, 2008 Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 4:30PMThe comma, as a mark of separation, is in the class of the semicolon and the full stop. In this group the ascending order of ‘break’ is: the comma, the semicolon, and the full stop.
- The ultimate who's who of movie cavemen Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 2:41PMIt's been a long time since there has been a good caveman movie. And that's too bad, because since I was a kid I've always enjoyed a good movie caveman. I like the animal pelt clothes, I like how they are surprised by everything, and I especially like their crazy ooga-booga caveman language.
- Computer Model Reveals How Brain Represents Meaning Sunday, June 1, 2008 @ 11:26PMScientists have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words by creating the first computational model that can predict the unique brain activation patterns associated with names for things that you can see, hear, feel, taste or smell. The model predicts brain activation patterns for thousands of concrete nouns.
- Computer model reveals how brain represents meaning Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 2:35PMScientists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words by creating the first computational model that can predict the unique brain activation patterns associated with names for things that you can see, hear, feel, taste or smell.
- Belmonte’s Gaieski honored at the State House Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 12:12PM Linda Gaieski, a beloved administrator employed at Belmonte since 1970, was among 287 individuals honored by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women last Wednesday as unsung heroines of 2008.
- Grammar curiosities and crudities–Part III Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 11:52AMWe continue dissecting the grammar curiosities and crudities that I presented in this column the other week. This time we’ll take up the following two sentences that I came across in two separate TV network-Internet news feeds recently:
- Who or whom? Thursday, March 27, 2008 @ 4:07AMApropos my comments on ‘sad demise’ (EFU, Feb. 7, 2008 ) L. Sundaram writes: ‘If sad demise is objectionable, what about the good company it keeps with Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, etc?
- Superstitions in English Grammar Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 3:38PMThe British on their departure from this pretty island left behind a box similar to Pandora’s. Curious as we were we opened the lid and out flew prepositions, conjunctions, finite verbs, subjunctives and also, to everybody’s surprise, an ethno-linguistic problem which was never there before, but over which since then thousands have been killed up to now and the problem is still unresolved.
- 'Smart Business Talk' - New Book Focuses on Colloquial Expressions in Business English Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 7:52AM A new book from Manhattan Review, "Smart Business Talk," is one of the first books with a primary focus on the uses, techniques and subtleties of Business English in addition to cultural differences.
