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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

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  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  From Fernando, on another thread [thanks!]:

  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.

  Highlighted words: Ms. Mead might have said a group of committed, thoughtful citizens; however, the key word here is committed. "Committed" denotes action on the part of the citizens. Their being thoughtful is a positive -- sure -- but to be merely a thoughtful citizen doesn't put a worthy candidate into office. The citizens must be committed to the given cause of the community. The placement of "committed," therefore, is rightly placed before "citizens."

  Thoughtful, committed citizens both think and act.

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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Thanks, rip and OUTLAW! [I put each fact separately so as to give no clues as to sequencing.]

  Great work!

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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Excellent work, my equals! That's exactly what I had in mind!

  Thank you, Bob, Lisa, rip, Millie, Fernando and insearch, for posting.

  During my walk this afternoon I was pondering word sequence. In general, when a noun is being modified, adjectives are placed from least important to most important before the item being described. Phrases, a group of descriptive words containing no verb, and clauses, similar but containing a verb, follow the thing being described:

  "Mary, a high school student [descriptive phrase], sauntered home toward Maple Way [prepositional phrase], her long red, curly [adjectives] hair shining in the sun."

  It's not written in stone. Sometimes it's a matter of euphony and cadence (if you're reading aloud). I figure that the main point here is that Mary's hair is curly and red. If I were to leave out curly, I would definitely write: "Mary's long red hair." Mary's known as a redhead; the hair's length and curl are of lesser importance, IMHO.

  More later -- I type very slowly . . .

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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Greetings!

  Please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:

  1) A man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled

  2) a boy: he owns a Schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a Christmas gift/it has three speeds

  3) Mary: she's a high school student/her hair is red/her hair is long/she lives on Maple Way/her hair is curly

  The point is to get the modifying phrases/clauses and adjectives in the correct order. If you succeed, please explain your reasoning!

  Thanks!

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  other forums

  by Hortensia in

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  i look at three forums pretty much every day, this one, a knitting/crochet forum and a weight-loss forum.

  the weight-loss site has loads of useful apps, but the forum consists of posts by people who are mostly pretty young, self-absorbed and ill-informed except on a narrow range of information, mainly weight-lifting, working out, and starving themselves.. the folks on the knitting/crochet forum are extremely polite, politically correct, and obey rules very carefully.

  other than that, there are some seriously creative people with amazing artistic talent that expresses itself in fiber arts.

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  The English language affords our dear Nancy many an opportunity . . .

  Funny how our differently spelled words so often rhyme with one another!

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  Schizophrenia

  by thedog1 in

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  that is what it feels like at the moment.

  i am leading a field service group tomorrow morning.

  taking the wt study on saturday.

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  Greetings, thedog:

  I'm sorry for what you're dealing with. I am experiencing something similar, but not to so great an extent as you.

  Comforting to me is Nancy Sage's story. She was a member of our forum under its earlier name, JWD. She wrote a book describing her wish to save her JW daughter. I believe she had been dfed, got reinstated and succeeded in rescuing her daughter. The title of her book is (I think I'm correct): Going Underground to Rescue My Daughter From the Cult of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Admittedly, not all could stomach what she put herself through, but she made it.

  Best wishes as you endeavor to maintain your sanity and integrity.

  CoCo
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  Is the Watchtower Really Rewriting their History through the DVDs and CD-ROM?s Historical Revisionist.

  by RottenRiley in

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  i am searching for the materials showing the watchtower changing the original content like or examples of the following.. .

  "the preaching work will be finished in the 20th century and never be repeated".

  i heard they changed this gem, and many others, why are they so dishonest, their members are stuck in the mental mud, doubt they even read the new magazines so why are they going to the trouble of changing or revising their past magazines when the members wanting true christian freedom, practicing love and compassion will locate the revised materials?.

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  http://www.bibletopics.com/BIBLESTUDY/86.htm

  Edited to add the above link -- for more info, put Johnny Walker Red into JWN Search.

  Hi RILEY:

  A sort of revisionism, I believe . . .

  When the WT got caught copying the Johnny Walker Red ad with the beach house and sunset, a totally new drawing appeared with the accompanying article in the bound volume. Their explanation -- apparently triggered by readers' inquiries -- was very breezy, no hint of the actual threat of lawsuit. It was to do, I believe, with their (WT) making images relevant and appropriate to demographics, or some such . . .

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  Abhor Menstruating Women.......Because The FDS say so.

  by pronomono in

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  wow.

  the insight book has some outlandish reasoning.

  i'm trying to put together a talk for tomorrow night, the number 3 on abhorrent things (insight vol 1, p 17) and the entire first half links abhorrent things to menstruating women through a "possible" derived word that might mean uncleaness.

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  Greetings, pronomono:

  I believe the relevance may be linked to the ancient matriarchies, wherein the female wisdom and medicine and sexuality were supplanted by the patriarchal societies. Goddess worship was essentially wiped out and their practices and beliefs -- which included the use of healing menstrual blood -- were viewed as abhorrent.

  Will return later with corroborating refs.

  Best.

  CoCo
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  other forums

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i look at three forums pretty much every day, this one, a knitting/crochet forum and a weight-loss forum.

  the weight-loss site has loads of useful apps, but the forum consists of posts by people who are mostly pretty young, self-absorbed and ill-informed except on a narrow range of information, mainly weight-lifting, working out, and starving themselves.. the folks on the knitting/crochet forum are extremely polite, politically correct, and obey rules very carefully.

  other than that, there are some seriously creative people with amazing artistic talent that expresses itself in fiber arts.

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  Good morning, Hortensia:

  We got eleven inches of rain (so we won't be burning for the moment), and knit one, purl two is running rampant through my brain, thank you very much.

  As politically correct as I can be, which is pretty darn good, your fluffy threads are as stimulating to my little gray cells as they would be to cher Hercule, were he here to comment . . .

  Everymore,

  CoCo
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  The Real Purpose of the WTB&TS

  by compound complex in

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  raymond franz introduces a declaration made by uncle fred:.

  still later in 1979, in fact on november 17, the day after i left .

  on a "zone" trip to west africa, fred franz, now the society's .

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  G'night all!

  Love your treasure trove of comments.

  What a gem our dear Ray was!

  Love,

  CoCo