Advanced English Language Vocabulary

Lesson #254: ‘I’ve learned a new and valuable lesson today’ – 7 Study Insights from ‘Anne Of Green Gables’

šŸ“— ā€œMarilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?ā€ ā€œI’ll warrant you’ll make plenty in it,ā€ said Marilla. ā€œI never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne.ā€ ā€œYes, and well I know it,ā€ admitted Anne mournfully. ā€œBut have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about […]

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Lesson #228: The transformative power of adjectives – a look at Kingsley’s ā€˜Water Babies’

I recently rediscovered a book on our shelves that my mother bought when we were children, and which I had been intending to read many times – only beginning now at last! šŸ—ļø šŸ“— This book, Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies (1863), is about a chimney-sweep, that is, a little child who used to sweep

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Lesson #219: ā€˜Annabel Lee’: Edgar Allan Poe’s Melodious and Melodramatic Poem

‘Annabel Lee’ (1849) It was many and many a year ago,    In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know    By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought    Than to love and be loved by me. .. I was a child and she was a

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