PROFICIENCY BOOK

THE PROFICIENCY BOOK

ARTICLES. The use of the articles in English.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams

COMPOUND VERBS

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton                Syn: to tolerate something, to stand it, to bear it.

CONJUNCTIONS

Either I will find a way, or I will make one. Philip Sidney

GERUND

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. Lloyd Alexander      Syn: unlikely (adj.), dificilmente. 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

INVERSION 

1. Negative adverb expressions: Not only, Never, Not until, No sooner (syn. as soon as.)

2. Only the, hardly, scarcely, only when, rarely.

When using this form you have to change the order through inversion. In advanced English you can change the normal word order in order to make the sentence more dramatic. This is especially true in written and dramatic advanced English. 

At no time did they tell us that there was a rise in the pandemic. Sushil Chandra

In no circunstances should a person be given pre-operative medication before being asked for their consent to proceed with the treatment.

In this way alone could we achieve success. ????

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. Lee Haney

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

Not a single question did she (the princess Christina of Spain) answer during the interrogation.

Not a single word 

Not only

Only since the death of Queen Victoria have women really liberated themselves from the rule of men.

LITERATURE LINES

To be a good teacher you have to be good at finding ways to get young people interested in the subject - to arouse their curiosity. This requires a profound appreciation of the way young people think and feel - something which many people lose as they pursue a narrow interest in their chosen subject. People may graduate from university with an excellent qualification but then find it almost impossible to capture the imaginations of students who come into the classroom wishing they were still out in the yard with their mates. Sometimes people who are too hooked on their own subject quickly become disillusioned with the difficulties of working with teenagers who are not patiently waiting to hear about poetry or photosynthesis.

A Woman of No Importance, by Oscar Wilde

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.