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Rearrange the following seven sentences into the well-structured paragraph they originally formed. (Just to establish the context: in the book from which the paragraph is taken, the preceding paragraph had been discussing some of the differences between American and British pronunciation of vowel sounds.) As cues, attend not just to the sense of each sentence,but […]

Latin vita, life, is the origins of: 1.Vital – essential to life; of crucial importance – a vital matter; also full of life, strength, vigour, etc. 2.Revitalize – revitalize is constructed from the prefix re-, again, back, the root vita, and the verb suffix. 3.The prefix de- has a number of meanings, one of which […]

Repeating a word or phrase can have positive advantages, alongside the negative virtue of averting confusion. It  can serve to emphasise ideas and drive a point home, and to link two separate ideas by signposting their similarity or contrast. And it can produce a number of rhetorical effects as well –Such as  humour, persuasiveness, or […]