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    Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are Mark Twain’s two most memorable characters. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn experience a life of adventure in and out of role-play‚ weaving through danger with a childish disregard for personal well being. Even though they are quite alike due to age and hometown‚ their differences outweigh their similarities. Some of these differences include their upbringing‚ education‚ and morality. Tom’s upbringing is typical for this time period. He belongs to a middle class

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    Idiom

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    Haste makes waste. “Haste makes waste” which is an old saying accepted almost by [almost] everyone. Some people are prone to do the tasks as quickly as they can but then they realize that everything got wrong. From my point of view‚ we should not do things precipitately but instead we should act carefully. For a start‚ haste makes us lose our attention.{"lose our attention" is odd - maybe "haste can prevent us from paying proper attention"} The main reason is that we only think about consequences

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    Directions to Solve Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom‚ If there is no correct meaning given‚ E (i.e.) ’None of these’ will be the answer. 1.  | To make clean breast of | | A. | To gain prominence | B. | To praise oneself | C. | To confess without of reserve | D. | To destroy before it blooms | E. | None of these | Answer & ExplanationAnswer: Option CExplanation:No answer description available for this

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    This year we read Tom Sawyer by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Throughout the book Tom has grown through maturity and just as a person. I have also grown a lot over the past year. I have grown as an athlete‚ a reader and writer‚ and also as an overall student. As an athlete I have to make sure that I’m getting my school work done‚ and doing it well‚ but also make sure that I’m not slacking in my sports. I’m in three sports‚ one for each of the seasons during school. In the fall I’m in soccer

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    1. Why does Huck assume Tom Sawyer’s identity? Because he stumbles upon Tom’s aunt and uncle‚ so he pretends to be Tom to try and free Jim because Jim is likely imprisoned on that plantation. 2. What happens when Tom appears on the scene? Huck meets up with him and explains to him what he is doing and why he is doing it. Tom agrees to help Huck in his mission to free Jim from captivity. 3. What’s the difference between Tom’s plan for freeing Jim and Huck’s? Huck wants to free Jim because Jim

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    Idioms and Their Meaning

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    IDIOMS |Group of words with a meaning of its own that is different from the meanings of each individual word in the group (for example‚ | |‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ means ‘It’s raining heavily’ and kick the bucket means ‘to die’); also a style of expression in | |writing‚ speech‚ or music that is typical of a particular period‚ place‚ or person (for example‚ ‘a piece of music composed in | |the modern idiom’).

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    Useful Idioms for Lower-Intermediate to Advanced Students (Teacher’s Resource) My students often tell me that they want to learn idioms. But‚ in the past‚ I always found it difficult to find a list of idioms/phrases that was general enough to be useful for everyone. So‚ I finally broke down and made my own idiom and phrases list. Below is the result of hours of idiom compilation and writing.  Item example: off the top of your head        He asked me to tell him a joke‚ but I couldn’t think of

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    Running head: COMPARISON IDIOMS Comparison Idioms Between English And Vietnamese Đinh Lan Khánh Class 4B07 University of Pedagogy Abstract As a foreign student learning English‚ comparison idioms are really a big problem for me as well as other learners. There are over 3000 idioms in the dictionary‚ so understanding and memorizing all of them are a hard issue. Some students‚ even though‚ live in America or England for such a long time‚ they are still unable to understand what the native

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    The Sage Encyclopedia of Human Relationships Personal Idioms by Sandra Metts‚ Illinois State University Sylvia Mikucki‚ University of Illinois “Raining cats and dogs.” “Green with envy.” “Easy as pie.” What these odd expressions share in common is the classification as cultural idioms. They are colloquial expressions that use the English language in creative ways to capture an attitude‚ image‚ or a feeling. A person who came to America from another country would have to study the sky during

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    Commonly Used Idioms And Other Useful References By Randolph Brock and William Griessel Bangkok University Language Institute Introduction A student who wishes to have a reasonably good grasp of English should learn the basic forms of English and how to use them‚ particularly commonly used idioms and verbs. Therefore this book is prepared to assist students of English in learning more commonly used idioms and verb forms. Most‚ if not all‚ languages have numerous idioms. Therefore

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