The young boys are plagued with diarrhea and other stomach aliments because of the change of diet they are forced to endure on the island.
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The collective noun plague (a word for a dangerous disease that spreads quickly) is used to group things that are harmful and have become too common (a plague of violence, a plague of accidents); or things that have become too great in number, seemingly our to control (a plague of locusts, a plague of rats).
Respiratory ailments can be prevented by protecting the lungs from things like smoke and pollution. Some of the most common causes of these ailments are smoking and second hand smoke.
yes black death and the plague are the same things
The distinction between nouns is not whether they are abstract or common, but whether they are abstract or concrete.The word plague may be either abstract or concrete, common or proper.- As a disease, it is a concrete noun for the physical condition caused by an infection.- It is used metaphorically as an abstract noun: a plague of immigrants, a plague of economic woes.- Either of the above are common nouns. The proper noun, a capitalized form, is the Plague to refer to an historic illness, an epidemic of bubonic plague also known as the Black Death.
There is no specific collective noun for plagues, there is seldom more than a single plague active at a time. A collective noun that might be applicable is a series of plagues. The noun 'plague' is a collective noun used to group things that are harmful and have become too common (a plague of violence, a plague of accidents); or things that have become too great in number, seemingly our to control (a plague of locusts, a plague of rats).
Bad weather and crop-destroying pests.
In the days of the plague no one new that it was caused by rats and fleas. They thought it was caused by many different things e.g Swearing, Drinking alchol on and Sunday etc. They tried to prevent the plague by not doing these things but the plague wasn't caused by that do therefor they didn't prevent the plague.
After the black plague many of the peasants were killed. This meant that they were in a higher demand so after the plague peasants got more rights because they were fewer.
There was no cure for plague, although a lot of people did some incredibly stupid things in the hopes that it would be. This was one of them.
Not much. They know most things about it now.
perfumes, good-smelling things. They believed that stuffing the masks (they looked like birds) with all that stuff killed the plague.