Or 'Various communicative activities follow in order'?
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
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"
flea - Oct 01, 2007 10:58:22 am PDT #4262 of 10001
information libertarian
Nutty! I request that your praise me effusively for my diligence! In email is fine.
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.
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2007 11:10:03 am PDT #4264 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Like those wrongheaded people who say "a myriad of".
Just because most of them are dead it doesn't mean you should be mean to them! I'm pretty sure that the preceding sentence parses--it might take more than one try, is all.
Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Myriad myriads of lives.” This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mūrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mūrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mūrias was used only in poetry.
flea - Oct 01, 2007 11:18:30 am PDT #4265 of 10001
information libertarian
Go read those 10 emails! They are interesting!
megan walker - Oct 01, 2007 11:19:13 am PDT #4266 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One might even say a myriad of interesting emails awaits you!
ETA: Or is it await? Hah!
amych - Oct 01, 2007 11:20:50 am PDT #4267 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wouldn't replace "variety" with "number", because for (what I assume is) the target audience, having different kinds of exercises is very different from having 15 only slightly different vocabulary matching drills, and it's a Very Big Deal in choosing (and therefore selling) materials.
However, I would switch the sentence around: Each (reading/text/chapter/whatev) is accompanied by a variety of activities to allow students to work with the new vocabulary.
amych - Oct 01, 2007 11:21:52 am PDT #4268 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Or is it await?
NoooooooooooooO!
That's it. I have to get back to my myriad myriads of emails.
Aims - Oct 01, 2007 11:27:30 am PDT #4269 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Did someone already post the Britney news that she has to give up her kids by Wednesday noon??
Sophia Brooks - Oct 01, 2007 11:34:29 am PDT #4270 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
What!?! To whom does she have to give up her kids, the state or K-fed?