subjective modality d) grammatical means (mood forms of the verb) conveying grammatical modality. I do really wish it hadnt been you. (Greene) Can I come up and see your pictures (Hemingway) Having it all‚ one cant leave a woman without a bob. (Maugham) 310 d) When the modal verb can expresses irrefutability of action or assuredness of statement‚ it may be conveyed in Ukrainian‚ where this kind of modal meaning is usually expressed implicitly‚ through a definite word-order and sentence stress (prosodic
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The English author William S. Maugham is best known for his short story “Mr. Know All”‚ in which he employs the irony technique brilliantly. Written in the same fashion is “The Verger”‚ another short story about the path of making success of an illiterate verger. Maugham‚ in this amazingly ironic literary work‚ has put the art of utilizing irony to the top degree with the reply of Foreman the protagonist to the bank manager at the end of the story. Foreman has been the verger of St. Peter’s for
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few differences‚ though the authors’ use of language‚ ending‚ and plot. In “Appointment in Samarra” Maugham uses assertive language that depicts Death in a negative way. He lets the reader know through his language the kind of fear the character Death emits to the Merchant. “She looked at me and made a threatening gesture…Death will not find me.”(Maugham 1). The reader can pinpoint with this fear and understand the story better. On the other hand‚ in “Godfather Death”
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witness a diverse range of businesses develop alongside it. City Road offers the opportunity to observe how material things‚ such as the businesses serving the community‚ may present inequalities and differences between various groups of people. The Mackintosh Centre located on City Road is a large‚ prominent building which has undergone a transformation
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CAMBRIDGE E X A M I N AT I O N S ‚ C E RT I F I C AT E S & D I P L O M A S CAE ENGLISH PA P E R 1 C E R T I F I C AT E I N A D VA N C E D S A M P L E PA P E R S English as a Foreign Language PA P E R 1 R E A D I N G S A M P L E PA P E R 2 FIRST TEXT/QUESTIONS 1–17 Answer questions 1–17 by referring to the newspaper article about travel guide books on page 3. Indicate your answers on the separate answer sheet. For questions 1–17‚ answer by choosing from the list (A–G) on the
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Analysis of the story “The Escape” by Somerset Maugham. Sometimes men cannot say “No” to women‚ although they want it‚ and that’s why they have to make up some situations to make women say them “No”. The short story “The Escape” written by Somerset Maugham is exactly about this case‚ about the conflict between man and woman‚ and this escape is the main theme of the text. The idea of the story is that one should put on his thinking and act very carefully‚ as sometimes procrastination can give better
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three months because the booking contract expired and they could not extend the run to meet the demand. In 1982‚ about six months after Cats opened in London‚ producer Cameron Mackintosh got a copy of the original French concept album from Peter Farago. Farago asked Mackintosh to produce an English version. Mackintosh was doubtful but finally decided to produce it. So he assembled a British team to adapt the French music for a British Audience. This took two years. On October 8‚ 1985 the English
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Analysis of the story ‘The Escape’ by Somerset Maugham The story “The Escape” written by an English writer Somerset Maugham is under the interpretation. This is a story about common people in common situation‚ and Maugham manages to tell it with the sense of humour and in a very interesting way. The story has a straight line narrative structure with author’s digressions at the beginning. The author establishes realistic setting to his piece of writing. He is the observer-writer‚ he uses the
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uni-dimensional. I am going to only discuss on unidimentional because multi-dimensional tool is complex and time consuming you rarely find them to be use in assessing post-operative pain‚ for example‚ the McGill Pain Questionnaire (Coll et al 2004‚ Mackintosh 2005). The most commonly pain assessment tools in my workplace (Perioperative) are visual analogue (VAS)‚ verbal pain scale (VPS) and Wong baker’s face pain rating scale. They are uni-dimensional‚ focusing specifically on one or two aspects of
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become inequalities. I would like to describe how certain people in society experience inequalities in City Road and give examples. Whilst some facilities are available to all it is not possible that all people can use them‚ for example‚ the Mackintosh Centre is a reasonably priced sports club which is not used to full advantage by local people. It has the look of a private club and was once a house to a wealthy family. People on low incomes feel daunted to enter according to John Cooksley‚ the
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