Critical = "life-threatening" stable = "getting neither worse nor better" My understanding is presumably coloured by descriptions of the course of a feverish illness. As it progresses, the patient eventually reaches the crisis

Just to keep this group alive... Yet again I hear on the wireless that a victim of violence is - ... To my ear, these are almost antonyms, a view borne out I think by dictionaries. How do you understand it? I have had similar thoughts about that

“The most effective way for managers to assign work is to divide complex tasks into their simpler component parts. This way, each worker completes a small portion of the task but contributes to the whole.” Discuss the extent to which you agree

I want to share this post from theoildrum.com. I don't necessarily agree with the analogy, but I think it is brilliantly realised in purely visual terms. The author, AFAIK, runs a soup canteen at a college and has no movie connections:

In this metaphor, or analogy, life is compared to a sentence in a script. Parenthetical remarks ( phrases included in parentheses like these ) interrupt the flow of the sentence. You find yourself in what seems at first to be a temporary change in

Hyperbole is a form of overstatement used for effect in literature and conversation. As a linguistic tool it works by creating an analogy. It's common in humor, as an absurdity. It can be used as a rhetorical tool, amplifying an idea or a

Hello, I'm not an Englishman, it might be the reason why some affairs in English are problematic for me. Let's ... make many linguistic mistakes. So below, you can find a few examples of problematic situations. Please, give me correct

No bullpen is from "America's favorite past time" Baseball.  Here he is using the reference because most Americans reading the story will understand the simile or analogy.  Apparently he expects her to be in the position only a short

Best way to learn English is by mingling with English-speaking crowd. Never be shy even if you feel your grammar or vocabulary may not be right. Just go ahead and fire your dialogues! You will then learn automatically. Everyday would be a new

1.I knew all human beings breathed. 2.I knew all human beings breath e . 3.I thought all human beings breathed. 4.I thought all human beings breath e . Of the four, I think no. 4 is not OK. I think the word "thought" is almost always