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What to Use Instead of Very

Not listed by me, but too precious not to share, don't you think?
Credits in the image.
Enjoy!

Hope you're eager to show off your exceptional vocabulary improvement!
Cheers!
Sabrina

Game of Thrones - Third Conditional Focus

# SPOILER ALERT #

#GAMEOFTHRONES

#GOT

     

Any Game of Thrones fans around? How satisfactory was the ending to you?

Personally, I felt quite disappointed. I mean, season 8 was clearly rushed and it did seem most characters wouldn't find proper closure anyway, but Bran on the Iron Throne, really? Jon exiled? Arya explorer? Frustration defines.

 

I can't help but wonder how things would've turned for each character in case they'd acted differently throughout the show. Take Daenerys, for instance. If she hadn't been blinded by power, she wouldn't have gone mad and burnt King's Landing to the ground. Jon wouldn't have had to kill her, wouldn't have been imprisoned by the Unsullied and sent back to the wall as punishment in the end! At least Ghost got him back, a well-deserved compensation for his everlasting loyalty.

 

Having taken a bit of it off my chest, I'd like to invite you to take a closer look at the structures I've used to indicate conditions for different character outcomes.

Was Danny blinded by power? 

YES!

As a result, she went mad and all the rest followed.

      

Now look:

The structure used is called the Third Conditional and it's used to refer to past situations that can be imagined differently - but never changed.

The Third Conditional is formed by:

 IF + PAST PERFECT ⇌ WOULD + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

What about the other characters? Could their fates have been different? On what conditions? Leave your ideas in the comments!

And let's all hope George R. R. Martin finishes his saga in a fairer way. Looking forward. ❤

XXX

Sabrina

From baby bottles to boxed wine

Still having the comic strips of my post on baby care in mind, I happened to come across the concept of boxed wine. Have you ever heard of it?

Boxed wine was invented in Australia and is quite popular in some parts of the world. It consists basically of low-priced, high alcohol wine sold in cartons with no visible indication of the amount consumed. It is pretty much criticised for being a gulping wine rather than a sipping wine; that is, a drink you take large mouthfuls rapidly instead of savouring a small quantity at a time.

Bottled wines, on the other hand, tend to be more elegant as well as expensive. Since the bottle must be well-sealed, the liquid is better preserved, being therefore ideal for long-term storage.

Note the pun!
Keep things bottled up = keep emotions or impulses contained.

What about you? Do you drink wine? How often do you drink it? Have you ever tried boxed wine? Do you prefer boxed wine or bottled wine? Tell us about it in the comments below!

XXX
S.

Newborn

Guess what!

I've had a baby!

I mean, there's been a year and five months already, LOL, but it seems it was just yesterday that my little one was born. There's so much I've learned - and so much still to. So, surfing the web for baby care tips, I ended up having a laugh with a couple of comic strips I bumped into. Yep! Somebody who had been in my shoes felt just the same!

Time to go night-night!
Hope you've had a laugh. ;-)
XXX

P.S.: To check out other strips, click here.

Notice to all students

To my dear students.
XXX
S.

Word Formation

Have you ever considered how important and useful word formation is? Affixes, that is, prefixes and suffixes, completely change the meaning of words. The prefixes -UN, -IM, and -IN, for instance, mean "not; the opposite of". Look at the examples below:

Got the idea?
By considering affixes, you can easily grasp the meaning of words that are new to you, which  means you can avoid endless dictionary searches as well as recurrent visits to those infamous translators (yep, I know you do it! :-P ).

Now, have fun with the cartoons below!

What about you? Which other examples can you think of?

XXX

Sabrina