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A little dirty spot on the floor,

It’s daunting, right?

You managed to sweep the dirt from all over the floor, except that little spot, despite the fact that it’s just a little one plus sometimes it takes much less time to clean it, so why don’t you complete your job and clean that one too? It’s easy to say but hard to perform, I will tell you why.

Once you realized that you’ve done 99.9% of your task whether it’s accurate or not you tend to turn away from completing the little 0.1% why?

Because, ac

By Jordan at Gold Star Teachers

If a word or phrase is spoken more than it is written, the correct spelling can be difficult to remember. This is a common problem with exclamations, e.g., whoa, aw, whoops, etc.

As you might imagine, these exclamations don’t find their way into written prose all that often, and when they do, writers forget how to spell them. Whoa, for example, has at least two misspellings that pop up in printed works: whoah and woah.

In this post, however, I want to cover five Engl

Learning another language is good for you in so many ways. But does it also help us speak our first language better? That’s a question I hear a lot. It used to be that the language experts said ‘no’. They based their logic on the idea that if you’re spending time on a second language, that’s time you’re not spending on your first.

It turns out, however, that they’re wrong. A lot of evidence has been collected over the years that indicates that learning additional languages helps you with your fir

Normally at first glance, a classical couple looks similar, sometimes they have sames tastes, same careers, same style of clothes, same musical preferences or even same political party or religion, but in essence, they are particularly different and unique. A couple is like two completely different worlds who decided to spend time together having a great time creating something new and learning important life lessons during their time as a couple. Differences and similarities are blended in a wo

Hello everyone!

Sorry for making you wait for so long. Some things went awry and I had to take another picture.

So, please leave your captions for this picture in the comments:

I will choose the winner in a week, on Monday 25 of June.

I am sure, you will surprise me with the lots of creative captions!

Good luck! :P

All the captions at this moment:

Mary:

1) The Umbrella Pride Parade

2) It's Raining Umbrellas

3) Rihanna looking for her umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh...

AG:

1) shaded with Beauty

Svitlana:

1) Let's

I want to dance

Like the sun is shining

My heart remains yours forever

I want to keep shining

As my remembrance will withhold me from my fears

And conquer all the adversity

My faith 

Views on guns are various and depend on the country and person. In Japan, people aren't allowed to have guns except for policemen, soldiers and hunters. In the case of hunters, they need to apply to the Japanese government for a license and be examined thoroughly. Japan is one of the countries that control gun ownership most thoroughly. So gun crimes in Japan are less than most other countries.

On the other hand, I think the U.S. is one of the countries that are most tolerant of having guns. Am

My friends told me “You are addicted to coffee. You drink coffee more than water”. That’s right! I can’t live without coffee. Drinking a coffee everyday is a great way to start my day. But today I’d like to try some tea and feel free to sit by myself in the coffee shop. 

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Wishing every Muslim From the heart core a very blessed Eid!

May your worships be accepted!

This story is about a typical couple that is having problems of communication and what happened when they talked about it.

Diego and Priscilla.

A month had passed since they started a romantic relationship. Diego truly loved Priscilla and she started to feel something special for him, they decided to become a couple because they always had had a good and supportive friendship and they got along well together.

One day, Diego called Priscilla and after a few minutes, Diego felt that Priscilla wasn't

Purchasing a condominium is significantly different from buying a fee simple house, therefore it's important to consider what experts you should consult as a way to decide what you could afford. When moving to Vaughan, you first will need to think about whether you'd love to get a new or previously owned condominium. Most condominiums and a few of the new condo for sale Philippines are found in company and business districts.

Finding Toronto Online

Business advice cannot only be restricted to reve

Since nowadays some useful riddles as well as equal sounding words are published, I wonder if someone could help out here. Is the below given claim possible?

John while James had had had had had had had had had had had a better efect on the teacher.

or is the next one likely?

I like like, likely like you like likeliness and the other one likes likelihood.

Darn foreign languages can be this confusing.

Sometimes fear appears in moments when the unexpected happens. Yeah, we would say that now we are adults and therefore have a lot of experience and there's nothing to fear and so on...but the truth is that most of us still have fear hidden in some nooks inside ourselves.

That night, I was walking alone on the sidewalk of a big avenue named Tlalpan (this avenue belongs to one of the main boroughs of Mexico city called "Delegaciones", it is important because of its conservation as a forest and also

So, you have asked me with such a love whether I know you.

Listen, I must say that the pain and torture you are seeing in my eyes is the very gift given to me by you.

I will also say that this was the very story in which you were considered the master and I was your subject.

You were the conqueror and I was the defeated.

This was the story in which the ego was supposed to be the winner and LOVE was the loser.

Having my own garden is not a bad idea. But I can go further. I imagine myself living on a very large piece of green land surrounded by apple and peach trees and also living by a big lake around like those luxury houses around of the Kalamalka lake in Canada, where I can go fishing or swimming. Oh yes, I know... I am daydreaming again. The funny thing is that my reality is totally different.

I live in a tiny apartment in the city, and having a garden could be a little difficult, but not impossibl

We stand up on the same earth. Feel the same atmosphere. Inhale the same air. Taste the same water. See the same stars and sun. You are living in the West, while I’m living in the East. You showed me how the stars appeared in your sky at night, when it was my afternoon. You never got bored staring at my face. “Beautiful”, you whispered.

You would never forget me until your last breath. You would not find the same girl like me. You felt close to me. You always complained about the distance. I was

Since A738a and I are working on the same idea.......and that can be too repetitive......let's change it up a bit.........let's see how much you can figure out on your own.  Can you find the differences and write a sentence with them or even a picture as A738a has done???  Here's the list.....and GOOD LUCK!!!! These words are all pronounced exactly the same.  

allowed/aloud

altar/alter

air/heir

bail/bale

ball/bawl

bear/bare

beat/beet

billed/build

blew/blue

break/brake

beech/beach

browse/brows

capital/capitol

Without any further ado heeeeeeeere's part two.

Part one

Bye now!

.Hi Everyone.......ready for some more confusing words???  Let's see what they are!!

(1) adduce - give evidence for  "Georgia must adduce the data".

(1b) deduce - to draw a logical conclusion.  " We can deduce many things through observation".

(1c) deduct - to make a subtraction.  "My employer will deduct the taxes from my paycheck".

(2) any more - adjective any (negative) + adverb (quantity)more; or additional spelling of anymore.  "I don't need any more problems on this job".

(2b) anymore - no long

Hello everyone. I recently discovered this site and it seems like it let me write some ideas through this blog, and share them with the rest of the community.

I like the idea of writing and using my grammar skills to tell you some anecdotes, stories and crazy thoughts. Of course, I don't pretend to become the next Shakespeare, I think no one wants that in this website, do they? well who knows...I am just a simple guy trying to improve my grammar skills and comprehension of english language and me