This is on the motivation of Tanya's writing challenge.
This is also in response to Expector's writing challenge, because it pertains the reported as well as direct narration.
LONESOME:
The twilight was in the offing, (it had already started getting dark), when I started driving to the beach. I moved towards the rock where I was used to sitting. No, I do not get scared if the darkness even prevail the atmosphere, I rather feel close to the Nature. That day I was in gloom, (without any reason, a
Hi, my dear friends! I was out for some time, but I am back and would like to propose you one more easy challenge for you to warm up a little. In this challenge, you should write a short story (very short as I am still very busy) using both or any of the given pairs.
BE/GET + adjective/past participle.
BE/START + present participle/ gerund.
You don't have to use all the words, only those you need to explain your mind.
I will explain using the examples.
He is sick (means he is not feeling good now).
My friend Anju and I were standing in line to book tickets for a movie. It was getting longer than we expected and Anju was getting annoyed.
She told me that she would go to the inquiry desk and ask why they hadn't opened the office yet.
She came back after a while and reported that they told her they would open the office only at 11 o'clock.
"11 o'clock? That means we have to stand here for another hour!" I said, exasperated.
Just then, a group of rough looking men came and cut in front of the
Yes, when you want to quote someone's words or thoughts, you can do it in two ways: 'direct speech' (quoting the exact words that were said) or 'reported speech' or 'indirect speech' (without quoting the exact words).
In reported speech, the tenses, pronouns and other words may be different from those in the original sentence, for example:
She said (to me), 'I love you.'
She said that she loved me.
Right, it can be so challenging for a learner to use a report structure correctly, but the good news
Do you have someone in your life whom you are truly thankful for? Someone who blends warmth and love like a blanket for your soul? Sadly sometimes those people we love most do not hear enough of our gratitude. Well today I have decided to just blurt out some of those nice gooey facts about this person and openly make a declaration of why I am thankful for my hubby!
#1 Laughter...his zany sense of humor makes the good times so great and the bad times so much lighter.
#2 Support... We all hav
My dear friends! I am proposing the test you know well. In such a test you should find and correct all possible mistakes. On the other hand, you shouldn’t change the structure of the sentence or the vocabulary but you may change the word order if it is wrong.. There may be more than one mistake in each sentence.
Let the deadline be August 24.
Here are the sentences.
Hi, my dear friends! I think it is about time to propose you one more grammar test. At Onee’s request, I will ask you to fill in the correct prepositions. You have two weeks to complete this test. So, there you go!
Reading Mary and Onee-chan's blogs about MyEC members makes me wondering what had happened to a few older members of MyEC. Once upon a time, their presence coloured MyEC with their blogs, forums and even chat room. Now, hardly any members remember them. They are no longer the flavour of the month. How flitting their presence in this virtual world it seems.
I wonder, does anyone really know anyone in this parallel universe which we call virtual world? When, and not if, we leave MyEC, does anyone m
Good morning, all MyEC friends...
How are you doing? Wish you all pretty well. ^_^
OK, I will shorten my prelude greetings. :D After reading MARY'S awesome blog, here I just want to add some more questionnaires. I put these questionnaires as I can describe several special characteristics of some EC members. There're lots of active members which I cannot describe all. The rule is ...... please read MARY's blog. :D :D Please guess MyEC members with these clues. No winner, since this is just to know
Aloha lovely EC people! ^_^
How cool is to find lately lot of EC people suggesting interesting games for us? I come to EC and feel like playing board games with family (the only difference is that here is not my granny trying to cheat in every game hahaha)
Okay, I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon suggesting a very special 'quiz'. It’s a quiz about you!! Yes, you!! An active EC member who is reading this! :)
Do you like to know about your neighbors? How much do you know about other EC members? We’ll se
Learning as a natural way.
I aspire to be fluent in English but have a very strange allergy to learning English Grammar. Besides learning grammar, I afraid spent most of my time making acquaintance with the grammar rules, which was boring, besides this I feel long time of studying grammar only killed my talent and made my brain frozen. Besides such sensation, I have a tendency to get careless with taking challenge where grammar is involved except taking Expector's challenge. It is an amazing feel
The village was getting ready to welcome Justina who won the gold medal in women's 200M freestyle swimming and in 100m backstroke in the Olympics. Justina's father was overwhelmed by her success. Justina is a 17 year old high School student. Besides swimming, Justina likes windsurfing and skiing. Everyone in Justina's family went to the airport to welcome Justina, except her disabled mum. At the airport the reporters surrounded and interviewed her. Justina said, ''except for my father, no one el
There were so many friends, who came and went in my life without being noticed, but Ahmed left long lasting impression on me. He used to sit beside me at the same desk during the class. He always encouraged me whenever I hesitated to do anything new. When I performed bad, all the classmates laughed at me except him. Besides this, he always told me very confidential matters without fear of being betrayed.
I used to make fun of him whenever he talked to me about his fiancee. Hearing the name of h
Yes, you're quite right, the two words (besides and except) are often confused - 'besides' means 'in addition to' or 'as well as', while 'except' means 'not including'.
Be careful, don't confuse 'besides' with 'beside' - the latter means 'next to' or 'at the side of'.
Right, I should have mentioned 'apart from', which can be used with either meaning (including or excluding). I'd add 'other than', which means 'not including' or 'without' (= 'except').
Sometimes you use 'except for' instead of 'exc
Once upon a time, there was an unjust Arab king. He had a hunchback. He did not want anyone to call him a hunchbacked man, if anyone dared, he would be headed. His people did not dare to call him so. One man said that he would call him a hunchback man. The people told him to be wise and not to do so. The king would kill him. He told them to watch and listen to him. The next day, he went up to the king. He greeted the king and said, "you are our king. We will always honor you and respect you. If
My dear friends! I promised to post the blog about the Carpathians and I am keeping my word! It was an unforgettable rest and I'd like to share my impressions with you.
You may know, that the Carpathian Mountains are the oldest in Europe. They are not very high. The highest peak is about 2000 m tall. But they are so picturesque! I have already told you a little about those places. So, not to repeat myself, I will tell you about our trip to the area called Zakarpatye, i.e., the Western part of tha
Let's keep striking while the iron is hot! Due to the connection problem of MyEC these days, I will try to write more.... I hope you, too, friends. Don't let MyEC go down because of our absence. :))) :D
Once ever had my great friend said that there were three things that made a friendship would last long. They were Gratitude, Apology, and Compliment. I remember this a lot until now and as I observed in my opinion it is true. Not only a friendship, but also all kinds of relationship, such as famil
It can be so frustrating if you can't use MyEC - for some members, no day is complete without visiting MyEC.
Sometimes MyEC does encounter technical problems or you're having some other connection problems, which will make it so hard for you to read or write blogs or comments on MyEC.
What if that's the case? Apart from reporting the problem to MyEC tech team, What would you do?
I'd visit other websites instead while hoping MyEC is accessible again. I'd even try to watch a TV drama in English. O
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is a popular American saying. This proverbial phrase is used to encourage people to be optimistic when they are faced with adversities in life.
In other words, when things turn sour like lemons, without getting discouraged, we should work hard to conquer the difficulties.
I agree that it is easier said than done. Some life challenges can knock us down completely, and leave us in a hopeless state. However, I strongly feel that patience, persistence and p
I like anything which has smell of motivation whether are books, quotes (like this one topic I arise here), stories and so on. I realize the lives are not easy what a motivator have said :D…Why we didn’t it make easier. How we could do this? As my understanding is just be a simple person and put positive thinking in your mind. It is a short message but has deep philosophy.
Let me to take an example in work place. Did you often get words from colleagues as “Hey, let me do this, your ability are no
