English joke in Present Tense. Past Simple Tense. A gentleman (seriously). What is it?
A guy walks into a post office...
A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.
His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says "I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"
"But why?" asks the man.
"I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.
***Под катом тема для обсуждения для особо трудолюбивых и продвинутых. "Manner/grace". Have you ever met it? Gentlemen. Are they still exist? What is that? Any signs? Do you consider yourself to be a gentleman? Graceful woman? Relict?
А теперь переходим к новому грамматическому материалу, впереди у нас следующая четвёрка - 4 прошедших времени.
1. PAST SIMPLE TENSE обозначает действие, происходившее в прошлом, не имеющее связи с настоящим.
V2, V-ed (глагол во 2-ой форме)
Did V1...?
Did not V1...
Helen came home at 6 yesterday. She didn’t come home at 7.
Вчера Хелен пришла домой в 6. Она пришла не в 7.
1. Did Helen come home at 6 yesterday?
- Yes, she did. Helen came home at 6 yesterday.
2. Didn’t she come home at 7 yesterday?
- No, she didn’t. She didn’t come home at 7, Helen came home at 6.
3. Did she come home at 6 or at 7 yesterday?
- She came home at 6.
4. What did she do at 6 yesterday?
- Helen came home.
5. When did she come home yesterday?
- She came home at 6.
6. Who came home at 6 yesterday?
- Helen did.
- Helen.
- Helen came home at 6 yesterday.
7. Helen came home at 6 yesterday, didn’t she?
- Yes, she did. She came home at 6 yesterday.
8. She didn’t come home at 7, did she?
- No, she didn’t. She didn’t come home at 7, she came at 6.
Signal words: yesterday, last week, a minute ago, in 2002.
Случаи употреблния рассмотрим в следующий раз.
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"A Graceful Man. A Gentleman" (Размышления Сарториалиста). История в Прошедшем Времени (Past Simple).
Фотограф Дзюбенко С.В.
"Sunday, January 31, 2010
A Graceful Man. A Gentleman
For me, this is blogging at it’s best. Being able to create a community of individuals that share information and ideas that can make the community as a whole a better place. Thank you.
“Manner” or “grace” is not something that you can learn from a book. Unfortunately, it is something you just have to be or to develop.
A great scene of modern grace on ’30 Rock’ the other day:
Liz and Jack went out to dinner at a very chic restaurant. As they sat down at the table, Jack immediately moved the candle from the center of the setting to the side of the table. Liz looked at him kinda
funny, not understanding why he did that but, not really caring either. Later, however, when Liz reached across the table to steal some of Jack’s food (as she always does), she realized he moved the candle so
her sleeve wouldn’t catch fire when she reached across the table. Jack’s manner and grace were so attuned to her as a friend, that he knew her moves before she did. That tiny gesture ended up becoming the
pivotal moment of the episode and changed the course of their business relationship.
I’m telling you guys again, women notice the small stuff. They notice the gentleness/gentlemenliness more than if you use the right fork at dinner. I’m a very lucky man, Garance notices every little kindness
I offer her, she doesn’t miss a thing. Knowing that makes it so much more rewarding to do even more little things for her. I’ll be honest, my biggest obsession in life right now is not better shoes, more suits or
a bigger career but, to simply be a more graceful man for my graceful woman.
So women, in the spirit of grace, manner and Valentine’s Day, take a moment and share with us men some of the little kindnesses that your man has done for you that made your heart flutter. Us men might
learn something and you might gain an even more graceful man, a gentleman.
Editor’s Note: For my gay readers, I can only write this as I know it, a man loving a woman. Don’t let this keep you from joining the conversation. If you have tiny acts of kindness from a boyfriend to a
boyfriend, or girlfriend to a girlfriend, please share with us!
Grace is Grace.
It doesn’t matter who you’re lovin’, it’s how you’re lovin’!"
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