![]() ![]() Police say he killed five of his neighbours. Now, you can explain it for them: "It's because remained is an intransitive verb, so it cannot be used in the passive voice. The suspect, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, is a Mexican national who had reportedly been deported twice in 2009, then again in 20. If you look up the words in a dictionary, you'll see that elect is transitive, and remain is intransitive, which is why had been remained sounds so awkward to the native ear, while had been elected sounds just fine – although many native speakers might have a hard time explaining why. ![]() As Dave Sperling says on his ESL website:īecause subjects of passive verbs receive the action, verbs that cannot have objects (intransitive verbs) do not have passive forms. The key is that the sentence with elected is using the passive construction, but the sentence with remained has an active construction. So, the question becomes, why can the verb elected be used in this way, but not the verb remained? That's a valid formation, and it's listed as the past perfect passive verb form in this table 1: In that case, you can use he had been followed by a past participle, as in: This issue gets tricky, however, when you switch to the passive voice.
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![]() ![]() And with a nod to the fixedness of this arrangement, ticket-holders in the pit swap seats at the interval, getting to sit in the corresponding place on the other side of the auditorium, offering an alternative perspective on the goings-on. Bunny Christie’s design takes a visual cue from the Lars von Trier film Dogville with the fully furnished houses demarcated by white lines on the floor and labelled by name, doors (and coats, weirdly) are mimed with accompanying sound effects. Initially it’s a dizzying affair, as the eye and the ear deals with the three separate domestic establishments. And spread over three weeks in October 1911, the interlocked, if not intersecting, dramas of their lives play out, dominated by the long shadow of the pit. It manages this by taking the Holroyds from The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, the Gascoignes from The Daughter-in-Law and the Lamberts from A Collier’s Friday Night and imagining them living on the same street in the East Midlands village of Eastwood. ![]() You have to respect the huge ambition behind Husbands and Sons, Marianne Elliott and Ben Power’s adaptation of three DH Lawrence plays which sees each of them run simultaneously in the round in the Dorfman. “How is a woman to have a husband when all the men belong to their mothers?” ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot was interesting and unusual, well planned and executed. ![]() ![]() She immerses readers in a fictionalized account of real lives and events whilst staying faithful to the historical and social context. One wrong move could cost her not just her artistic dreams but the love of those she holds dear … and even her life.Ī sequel to Nancy Bilyeau’s The Blue, The Fugitive Colours again reveals a dazzling world of glamour and treachery in Georgian England, when beauty held more value than human life. Genevieve begins to suspect that her own secret past, when she was caught up in conspiracy and betrayal, has more to do with her entrée into London society than her talent. And watching from the shadows are ruthless spies who wish harm to all of England. But such high stakes spur rivalries that darken to sabotage and blackmail-and even murder. She soon learns that for the portrait painters ruling over the wealthy in London society, fame and fortune are there for the taking. Grasping at the promise of a better life, she dares to hope her luck is about to change and readies herself for an entry into the world of serious art. And men definitely control women.Ī Huguenot living in Spitalfields, Genevieve one day receives a surprise invitation from an important artist. Men control the arts and sciences, men control politics and law. ![]() The highly anticipated follow-up to the sweeping historical thriller The Blue.Īs Genevieve Sturbridge struggles to keep her silk design business afloat, she must face the fact that London in 1764 is very much a man’s world. ![]() ![]() Not only about Maggie but about the Civil War trauma he got. Sean would mention how he would act strangely on Maggie's(his mum's name)birthday or their anniversary. I pity him because he lost his wife that he loved so much. ![]() A big reason why I liked Pa was that I pity him. Even though he was cruel to the Chinese workers, he was a good, caring father. Sean was a serious young man, but with the right ideas. I mean, I could just picture the nitro bombs going off and all of those men eating at those tables with the plates nailed to it, ect. That made me want to go hug him and say, "You are so sweet."Īnother thing I loved about Sean was his way of describing everything with such detail. He used to write in his journal about how he got mad when the men would talk smack about them. What I am trying to say is that he wasn't a jerk to the Chinese like the other Irish. Though, none of the things he said were petty and sad, but just so.right. ![]() Well, there were a bunch of things he said that made me want to go and hug him. ![]() I mean, Sean melted my heart throughout the whole book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those shadows will suck you into a whole new world. ![]() ![]() But what really gives away the doggo is not a helpful Lassie are the shadows, darker than dark, swirling about the killer canine. Even without looking inside its muzzle, I know viscous slobber covers several rows of razor-sharp teeth. 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No one expects to run into a hellhound on their pre-dawn run in the Seattle suburbs, not even me, and I’ve had a long history with the stinky mutts and their master. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. ![]() The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen ![]() ![]() WINNER of the Nevada Young Reader Award 2022!.WINNER of the Mississippi Magnolia Book Award, 2022!.Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award nominee 2022-2023.Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee 2022-2023. ![]()
![]() After the shipwreck with Candide and Pangloss, they wash up to a town in ruins from the earthquake scavenging for food to survive. ![]() This earthquake followed by the tsunamis killed 60,000 people and destroyed around a couple thousand buildings. Many events influenced Voltaire to write Candide one major event was the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 this occurred in the kingdom of Portugal. ![]() Things needed to change for the greater good and everything was not alright. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority-religious or political or otherwise-should be immune to challenge by reason.”1 Voltaire most likely wrote Candide to show the world or naive people the horrors peasants would go through or corruption there is in the world. ![]() “Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() His works came to be translated into German, French, Danish, Swedish, and English. It was towards the time of his death that he came to be recognized as an authentic writer with an intimate understanding of local culture (as opposed to the “armchair travellers” or “travel liars” who would base their fantastic tales on their reading of others’ travelogues). ![]() His travel-writing about India, vituperative views on colonialism and writings on missionary activity in India and the East in general made him unpopular among the Dutch elite whose help he desperately needed to be employed as a bureaucrat or to sponsor his writing. The man reached India as the servant of the VOC (or the Dutch East India Company) after having lived in South Africa and Java for a while. ![]() Indology-a field of study about India’s history and culture associated with 19th-century British and German figures-had an interesting German-Dutch predecessor, Jacob Haafner (1754-1809). ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is only when her lover takes her to Paris that Coco discovers her destiny. She immerses herself in his world of money and luxury, discovering a freedom that sparks her creativity. Transforming herself into Coco-a seamstress and sometime torch singer-the petite brunette burns with ambition, an incandescence that draws a wealthy gentleman who will become the love of her life. ![]() The sisters nurture Gabrielle's exceptional sewing skills, a talent that will propel the willful young woman into a life far removed from the drudgery of her childhood. Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to orphanage after their mother's death. For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel-the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman's daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century. ![]() |