By Shuang Wu Jane was 28 when she met Jimmy. It was {raining cats and dogs}, Jane didn’t have an umbrella and neither did Jimmy. They started chatting about the weather, then the {cheesy} film they both had seen. Jimmy was the first {carrot top} that Jane had gone out with. He didn’t have a handsome face […]
Já noutra conversa falámos sobre a utilização do artigo definido ‘the’. Hoje vamos aprofundar um pouco mais o tema, para ver quando não deve usá-lo. But don´t stress; take a deep breath and think with serenitea. So here are eight “DON’TS” of using the definite article: 1. Before people’s names. [Antes de nomes de pessoas.] Phil is a nice person. […]
A utilização ou não do artigo definido ‘the’ é uma questão recorrente entre ESL learners. Estes queixam-se que “parece que fazem sempre a escolha errada”. Bem, nada como meter as mãos à obra e encarar a questão de frente. Seguem-se 11 situações onde devemos usar o artigo ‘The’: 1. Before a noun previously mentioned. [Antes de um nome anteriormente […]
One of these days, as I was looking through an old poetry book, I came across a poem by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet, and immediately thought to myself: it’s all about the poetry in tea… One or two days later, while googling, I found a lovely little poem about tea parties, written […]
