particular way of writing e.g. He spends hours a day practicing penmanship I cant read his handwriting Sad can be used to express regret about an unfortunate situation that is being described e.g. The sad fact is that full employment may never be regained It's sad state of affairs when people are afraid to go out at night 7. both ideas= the idea o learning new words and the idea of improving handwriting 8. thumbing uncertainly through the dictionary's pages -turn the dictionary's pages quickly and casually 9. to start some kind of action -in order to make a beginning, no matter what it was some kind of is used to describe or refer to something that is uncertain or is roughly like the thing mentioned 10. I copied…, everything…, down to the punctuation marks.- I copied… everything… including even the punctuation marks Down to- including even e.g. She could describe what the other women in the room are wearing, down to the color of their Nobody was free from suspicion, from the head boy down to the youngest pupi 11. I read back . everything I've written on the tablet. I woke up the next morning, . immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time. but I' ve written words that i never knew were in the world Judging from the context in which the past tense is used with other verbs in the above two sentences, there seems to be an improper use of the present perfect tense where the past perfect tense should normally occur. The phrase Ive written should perhaps be replaced by"I'd written 12. Funny thing, from the dictionary's first page right now, that"aardvark"springs to m mind. -It's strange that right at this moment that word"aardvark "which I learned from copying the dictionary's first page is still fresh in my mind pring to/into- start or come into existence very quickly and suddenly e.g. Say the word"Australia"and the vision of beaches and blue seas immediately springs to my A computer will not spring into action without something powering it. 13. live off (a particular kind of food)-live by eating the only kind of food e.g. These animals with long necks live off the leaves of tall trees We lived off fruit for a week 14. I went on into the Bs. -I continued to copy the dictionarys B section 15. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. -I that way I started copying and finally I copied the whole dictionary What is used h of "the thing that to na ften implying a changing process in which something becomes true to that name of description e.g. I share your concern about what is rapidly becoming a desperate situation The village was located in what is now a large industrial city 16. between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters -over the period of time from starting to write in my tablets to writing letters between here indicates a period of time from one event to another e.g. between conception and biological birthparticular way of writing. e.g. He spends hours a day practicing penmanship. I can’t read his handwriting. Sad can be used to express regret about an unfortunate situation that is being described. e.g. The sad fact is that full employment may never be regained. It’s sad state of affairs when people are afraid to go out at night. 7. both ideas = the idea o learning new words and the idea of improving handwriting 8. thumbing uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages –turn the dictionary’s pages quickly and casually 9. to start some kind of action – in order to make a beginning, no matter what it was some kind of is used to describe or refer to something that is uncertain or is roughly like the thing mentioned. 10. I copied … everything …, down to the punctuation marks. – I copied … everything …, including even the punctuation marks. Down to – including even e.g. She could describe what the other women in the room are wearing, down to the color of their stockings. Nobody was free from suspicion, from the head boy down to the youngest pupil. 11. I read back … everything I’ve written on the tablet. I woke up the next morning, … immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I’ve written words that I never knew were in the world. Judging from the context in which the past tense is used with other verbs in the above two sentences, there seems to be an improper use of the present perfect tense where the past perfect tense should normally occur. The phrase I’ve written should perhaps be replaced by “I’d written”. 12. Funny thing, from the dictionary’s first page right now, that “aardvark” springs to my mind. – It’s strange that right at this moment that word “aardvark” which I learned from copying the dictionary’s first page is still fresh in my mind. Spring to / into – start or come into existence very quickly and suddenly e.g. Say the word “Australia” and the vision of beaches and blue seas immediately springs to my mind. A computer will not spring into action without something powering it. 13. live off (a particular kind of food) – live by eating the only kind of food e.g. These animals with long necks live off the leaves of tall trees. We lived off fruit for a week. 14. I went on into the B’s. – I continued to copy the dictionary’s B section. 15. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. – In that way I started copying and finally I copied the whole dictionary. What is used here in the sense of “the thing that” to name or describe something often implying a changing process in which something becomes true to that name of description. e.g. I share your concern about what is rapidly becoming a desperate situation. The village was located in what is now a large industrial city. 16. between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters – over the period of time from starting to write in my tablets to writing letters between here indicates a period of time from one event to another. e.g. between conception and biological birth