Comments | ody_see_us: hmm whats an adverbial clause?

ody_see_us

hmm whats an adverbial clause?

Aug 12, 2002 07:33

yeah, I'm off to teach a class on the "Reduction of Adverb Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases." Good thing I woke up early to figure out what this is all about. I think I'm also learning English as a Second Language ( Read more... )

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tree August 12 2002, 05:45:17 UTC

oh i hope you do not mind that i have added you as a friend but i saw doris lessing in your interests and just couldn't help myself!

ody_see_us August 13 2002, 08:13:04 UTC

welcome aboard :), I put Doris Lessing in there because i really loved the book "The Fifth Child." It's one scary-assed book. What do you like about Doris' stuff?

tree August 14 2002, 01:14:32 UTC

the first Doris Lessing i read was the short story to room nineteen. then my mother was writing a thesis on the grass is singing and raved about her. i loved the fifth child. have you read the follow up to that, ben in the world? it's much different in tone to fifth child and veryvery sad.

nomadicjack August 12 2002, 09:41:38 UTC

teachers teaching students to pretend to be puppets... weird.

ody_see_us August 13 2002, 08:19:24 UTC

yeah, the teachers would have the kids move around as if they were marionettes, with strings tugging their arms and heads around. And then the teacher would say, stop, and all the kids would freeze and slump down in their seats, like they marionettes sitting in a chair without anybody holding up the strings.

...definately weird...

Re: nomadicjack August 14 2002, 13:53:23 UTC

that's just plain creepy. *shudders*

Stupid Question Time(tm) neobitch August 12 2002, 11:28:00 UTC

So, um. What /is/ an adverb clause? ;)

I had really bad English teachers in elementary school, or something. I learned what nouns and verbs are. I can usually spot a preposition. Anything more complicated than that...the ol' blank stare comes out.

It made learning French in high school a real pain. ("Say, teacher, what's a 'future perfect' verb in /English/?")

Re: Stupid Question Time(tm) ody_see_us August 13 2002, 08:37:58 UTC

Do you get to use yer French often in Vancouver?

oh, and i'm just remembering this hotel bar thing that I went to with my friends when I was in Vancouver. Its called the Biltmore, its a bar that a lot of First Nations people go to. I had a great time there with my friends, though it was odd,

cause one night they had male strippers and they made all the men in the audience go to the far back of the bar, away from the festivities. The weirdness was that they would make men leave. the show wasn't my thing, but it made me think about how people can control the gazes of others, like how the owners can prevent some people from being there. I wonder if it was illeagal to segregate people like that.

neobitch August 13 2002, 09:43:03 UTC

My French is so rusty that I'd be ashamed to use it. I can still read a little, but that's it. I'm not sure I'd ever be a fluent speaker, but I'd really like to be proficient at reading and writing it. I hear French only rarely on the streets or on a bus -- something like 60% of Vancouver's population is Asian, so it's more likely you'll hear Japanese or Cantonese or somesuch.

It probably wasn't illegal, but it probably wasn't legit, either. You can get away with a lot of things, if you act like you're in charge -- and if a few people in a group do what they're told, odds are the rest of the group will just follow along. I think you'd get very familiar with 'typical human reaction', working at a place like that.

(What did you think of Vancouver, when you visited?)