Because it's ambiguous, I would rephrase the whole sentence.
Waffler!
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Oct 01, 2007 10:25:05 am PDT #4254 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Liese S. - Oct 01, 2007 10:25:53 am PDT #4255 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Separate varieties? Like, a variety of cheeses and also a variety of lunchmeat options? Yes, I'm hungry, why do you ask?
Okay, leftover spaghetti, but walking over to the local bakery to lounge around and drink coffee and eat way too delicious pastries. Under the guise of holding a business meeting. Gotta love it.
Especially since we had a nearly completely wasted morning, and it's now raining and therefore my exposed floor and western wall are getting all wet and also no work is being done. And the forecast is for the rain to continue all week until Friday, when massive winds should hit. And then it should clear up for the weekend. When they won't work.
Oh well. Coffee, pastries.
Fred Pete - Oct 01, 2007 10:26:26 am PDT #4256 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
One variety, two deadbeats. Unless by "a couple," you mean married or equivalent.
megan walker - Oct 01, 2007 10:36:52 am PDT #4257 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Because it's ambiguous, I would rephrase the whole sentence.
I'm just tired of rewriting these authors (they are native French speakers so there is much tweaking to be done).
Now I'm just intrigued. If one were to use "number" instead of "variety" would that change things?
Here's the whole sentence as it now stands:
A variety of communicative activities follows in order to allow the student ample opportunity to work with and acquire the new vocabulary.
shrift - Oct 01, 2007 10:42:53 am PDT #4258 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Waffler!
Mm, waffles.
juliana - Oct 01, 2007 10:44:56 am PDT #4259 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
A variety of communicative activities follows in order to allow the student ample opportunity to work with and acquire the new vocabulary.
I would definitely say "follow" in that sentence. Or replace "variety" with "list", and use "follows".
Jesse - Oct 01, 2007 10:54:41 am PDT #4260 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think the Cuban is a little heavier since it's pork and the jambalay is chicken and sausage. Neither really makes me droopy though.
Oh, see, carbs make me snooze. Pork makes me happy!
I had a surprisingly good pork sandwich in the Charlotte airport the other day.
Theodosia - Oct 01, 2007 10:55:11 am PDT #4261 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Or 'Various communicative activities follow in order'?
flea - Oct 01, 2007 10:58:22 am PDT #4262 of 10001
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Nutty - Oct 01, 2007 11:07:19 am PDT #4263 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
People, I have 10 emails from flea in my inbox. None of which I have read yet. She is very dilligent and enterprising! (I am not.)
A variety of communicative activities follows in order to allow the student ample opportunity to work with and acquire the new vocabulary.
I think "a variety of" is a construction that must work better in French than in English, because it's just sounding wrong to me as I read the sentence aloud. Like those wrongheaded people who say "a myriad of".
I guess I would replace variety with number, and then allow the plural verb.