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  2. New Concept English - Wikipedia

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    Another set of cassettes, on which Repetition drill in the Teacher's Book has been recorded. New Concept English (1967) has been described as "a breath of fresh air" in which the author, L. G. Alexander, utilised "a syllabus as a foundation for effective learning" and organised "the language in ways which students - and their teachers - found ...

  3. Object–verb–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    "Tom saw I yesterday" – I saw Tom yesterday); Fisk liker katten (lit. "Fish likes the cat" – The cat likes fish). In the last example, it is highly unlikely that fish is the subject and so that word order can be used. In some languages, auxiliary rules of word order can provide enough disambiguation for an emphatic use of OVS.

  4. Function composition - Wikipedia

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    If an airplane's altitude at time t is a(t), and the air pressure at altitude x is p(x), then (p ∘ a)(t) is the pressure around the plane at time t. Function defined on finite sets which change the order of their elements such as permutations can be composed on the same set, this being composition of permutations.

  5. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    At three o'clock yesterday, I was working in the garden. For stative verbs that do not use the progressive aspect, the simple past is used instead (At three o'clock yesterday we were in the garden). The past progressive is often used to denote an action that was interrupted by an event, [8] [9] or for two actions taking place in parallel:

  6. The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Wikipedia

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    The exercises are intended to be practiced in groups of three, except for the first two which are practiced together. Exercises 21 - 43: Labeled "further exercises for the development of a virtuoso technique." This more difficult section is meant to be played after the pianist has fully mastered Part 1. Part 2 includes scales and arpeggios.

  7. How Green Was My Valley - Wikipedia

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    How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live. The author had claimed that he based the book on his own experiences, but this was found after his death to be untrue; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in ...

  8. A History of Yesterday - Wikipedia

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    A History of Yesterday (История вчерашнего дня) is a non-fiction diary entry by Leo Tolstoy [1] written in 1851 and later republished in English in 1928, and then again in 1949, when it was translated by George Kline. It is one of his earliest-written pieces available in English.

  9. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s - Wikipedia

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    Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties is a popular history book written by Frederick Lewis Allen, published by Harper & Brothers in 1931 and reissued in 1957. [1] Only Yesterday was a Book of the Month selection, [ 2 ] sold 1 million copies, [ 3 ] and was frequently assigned as college reading.