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Kosmopolite
Citizen of the World (Right now, Mexico)
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The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
(Found from FYCD.)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc65qm5Unt1qa54b8o1_500.png)
The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
(Found from FYCD.)
Every teachers meeting
‘Darling!’ he announced, as if this was a complete conversation. ‘Darrrr-ling!’ he said again - you could pratically hear the subject-verb-object construction within those two syllables.
Melody Malone, The Angel’s Kiss.
((I love me some good old grammar humor))
(Source: jelenedrake, via doctorwho)
Teaching: it’s like this.
(Source: awesomephilia)
Scott Pilgrim. Apparently when he’s Spanish, he’s not just awesome, he’s fabulous.
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lay-back-and-think-of-sherlock:
-Sir, we’ve found this and we needed you to name it.
-Pineapple.
-But we figured we might as well just call it “Ananas” since the majority of the world refers to it as-
-Pineapple.
-But sir-
-Pine. Apple.
um I say piñas
(Source: french-tea, via sidekickdisaproves)
(Source: secondgradestories)
Kosmopolite lite: Dairy, Dung and Democracy
Hello, out there. I haven’t been online much today because I was on a farm looking at excrement. No, really, I was.
Let me give you some back story first. I was recruited for the school I currently work for during the 2011 British English Olympics. BEO is a competition where dozens of Mexican…
