Many idioms survive from the earliest period in our language's history, called Old English, or OE. In OE, compounds such as seven-year were constructed using the genitive plural of the noun: seofon geara "of seven years." Later, during the Middle English period, the old grammatical endings were lost from English words. leaving seven year. This is also true for a twelve-inch ruler, a four-man lifeboat, or a six-foot ladder.
You can use feeling in a sentence by saying spectacular instead of saying good.
instead of saying nits you can say headlice instead , it sounds less , bad ?? :)
Instead of saying "That is Tommy's candy," you could say, "That is his candy."
Spanish people use the word seniority instead of saying women or girl.
Yes, this is the polite way, instead of saying what which is considered rude.
It depends on the sentence. He, she, it, we, or they are possible, or you can just rearrange the sentence to say the same thing without using the word "you". Maybe you can rearrange it so it says "yourself" or something of that nature instead.
To use a sentence for emphasis, you can try adding an exclamation mark at the end, using strong and descriptive words, or using repetition. For example, instead of saying "I am tired," you can say "I am exhausted!" to express a stronger feeling. Similarly, you can say "I'm absolutely thrilled" instead of simply saying "I'm happy."
Active voice is when the subject of a sentence is actively doing something, instead of that something being described as simply being done. An example of active voice would be saying that a writer is writing a sentence. Writing in passive voice would be saying that a sentence is being written by the writer.
dislexic?
Depending on the sentence, you could use dash, scamper, sprint or jog.For instance, instead of saying, "We will run around the field," you could say, "We will sprint (or jog) around the field."Instead of saying, "The squirrel ran away," you could say, "The squirrel scampered away."
I believe the sentence should be worded like the following:"A sudden rush of cold came over me."
Yes, 'he went crazy when his wife burnt his breakfast' is the right way to say that sentence. Instead of saying 'he went crazy' you could say 'he got mad'.