#or prepositional phrases

[after-perfect]

Morphosyntax pickup lines

"Hey baby, are you a strong head, because you attract me."

"Are you into government and binding?"

"Are you a ditransitive verb, because you're assigning me dative case."

"Wanna be the clitic to my morpheme?"

"Not to be too obviative about it, but I'd like to be proximate to you."

"Let's make like a VP and split."

"So can I see your underlying form?"

[birchbow]

@owl---feathers yeah I've posted about it on,,,, my main and my pale sideblog before, maybe? I wrote some bits in college of a fic where Gamzee gets captured by the Felt, presumed dead--then I forgot about it for years, then a few months ago somebody told me they always hoped to still read it someday, and I started putting in the work trying to get it postable. Ofc now that it has plot, instead of just like 15K words of bad shit happening to Gamzee, it's ballooned to almost 100K words and still isn't done. But that's my trademark at this point lol.

I'm genuinely such a sucker for "the guy I love is back but he came back Wrong but I still love him" and also "this person is deeply traumatized about being A Person and needs to learn how to be a human being that people love again", so.

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The rest of your team is filtering down after you.  You should be listening to them as they talk, debriefing, talking over your next moves; you’re the leader, it’s your job.  But you can’t.  You can’t do anything except stand at the observation window and stare.

Gamzee was always thin, no matter how much you tried to feed him up, but now he’s fucking gaunt.  The beds in the holding cells are just inset bunks in the walls with mattresses riveted down onto them; the cuffs attached on either side of them aren’t long enough for him to leave the mattress but he’s making a solid fucking effort, thrashing and struggling at them, making vicious, animal sounds of fury.  His eyes are washed over featureless purple, his lips are cracked and chapped bloody, the soft brown of his skin has gone a pale, ashy gray-brown except for the blotchy flush of rage on his cheeks.

“Motherfucking cowards!” he screams, and slams against the cuffs as hard as he can, wiry muscle straining in his arms and chest, tendons standing out in his narrow throat.  “You’ll die and DIE AGAIN, you walking corpses!  My mission is holy!  MY MISSION IS HOLY, MOTHERFUCKERS!  I won’t be fucking swayed from it!  You’ll live to watch my Lord eat the marrow outta your bones, he’ll boil you fuckers alive in your own filthy motherfucking blood—!”

“Fuck,” says Eridan, heavy and thick with horror.  There’s still red smeared across his lips, and he’s leaning hard on Feferi’s shoulder.  “Should’ve been able to take him.  Woulda been able to take him before.  Fuck.”

Gamzee is laughing now, horrible, harsh laughter, like the horrific shit he’s describing is funny.  You don’t answer, because how the fuck could you?  What the fuck would you say?

“This is what they wanted to turn us into?”

“Eridan,” says Feferi, tightly.  

“Fuckin’, berserk murder machines—”

“Eridan.”

Eridan presses his lips together into a thin, unhappy line and looks away, sniffing hard.

“You think I don’t feel you out there?!” Gamzee snarls, and twists, thrashing at the cuffs.  They were made for the others, when they came back from the Scratch—the shed chitin of whatever you’re fused with is worked into them, and they don’t give.  Gamzee howls in fresh rage and stares wildly at the one-way mirror, eyes round and blank, nothing behind them but light.  “Smell you,” he hisses.  “Taste you.  Scared of me, motherfuckers, as well you fucking should be.  Scared what hell you’ll be sent to when I dig your hearts out with my hands and make you fucking eat them—!  Oh I taste it already, brothers and sisters, repent, it won’t fucking save you—”

“I can’t believe that’s him,” Kanaya says—quietly, flat and soft.  “What have they done with him?”

Whatever the fuck they wanted, you guess.  Six years.  Six fucking years.

[essektheylyss]

New fun language learning activities: read Wikipedia pages for philosophical and political theories in your target language, just for kicks.

[mylinguaacademy]

18 Prepositional Phrases with FOR

Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. We will look at prepositional phrases with for which can help you improve your vocabulary significantly and understand English even better. Here is the list of prepositional phrases with for: As for For ever For all For now For fun For hire For long For real For sure For nothing To die for For…

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[jhsharman]

teamwork

Video?

Removed a wrinkle?

[muhammad-ubaidullah-khan]

PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

(1) کسی مضمون میں) طاق ہونا۔)

At home in.

(2) بالکل کمزور ہونا

At sea in.

(3) پہلو میں۔ پاس ہی

At the side of

(4) بلند آواز سے

At the top of one's voice.

(5) دشمنی رکھنا

At enmity with

(6) قریب

At the point of.

(7) اختلاف رکھنا

At variance with.

(8) خطرے میں ڈال کر

At the risk of.

(9) خاتمہ پر

At the conclusion of.

(10) بوجہ ۔ وجہ سے

Because of.

(11) زور سے ۔ بذریعہ

By dint of.

(12) زور سے ۔ بذریعہ

By force of.

(13) بذریعہ

By means of.

(14) پاس ہی

By the side of.

(15) بذریعہ

By virtue of.

(16) بطور

By way of.

(17) ڈر سے

For fear of.

(18) خاطر

For the sake of.

(19) کمی کی وجہ سے

For want of.

(20) کسی مطلب یا غرض کے لئے

For the purpose of.

(21) مطابق

In accordance with.

(22) بہ حالت

In case of.

(23) کسی کی طرف سے

In or on behalf of.

(24) بوجہ

In consequence of.

(25) متعلق

In connection with

(26) بلحاظ

In consideration of

(27) حق میں

In defense of.

(28) برخلاف

In defiance of.

(29) حق میں ۔ کسی کی خاطر

In favour of

(30) خوشی میں ۔ یاد میں

In honour of

(31) سامنے

In front of.

(32) بلحاظ

In point of.

(33) تلاش میں

In quest of.

(34) باوجود

In spite of.

(35) بجائے

Instead of.

(36) بجائے

In lieu of.

(37) خیال سے

In view of or in sight of.

(38) حالت میں

In the event of.

(39) سامنے ۔ موجودگی میں

In the face of.

(40) پیچھے میں

In the rear of.

(41) بھیس میں

In the guise of.

(42) مقابلہ میں ۔ برخلاف

In the teeth of

(43) امید پر

In the hope of.

(44) مطابق

In keeping with.

(45) بوجہ

On account of.

(46) تھوڑی دیر پیشتر

On the eve of.

(47) کنارے پر ۔ بلکل نزدیک

On the brink of.

(48) بوجہ

On the ground of or on the score of.

(49) بہانہ سے

On the pretence of

(50) اس مطلب سے

With a view to.

(51) اس خیال سے

With an eye to.

(52) متعلق

With reference to.

[mishkakagehishka]

Gaslighting myself into believing i am smart and know this shit

[siglai]

OKAY BYYE WISH ME LUCK ON MY ENGLISH EXAM

[mortalfollies]

hmm i think i understand how lyra felt at the end of the amber spyglass now. to understand something intuitively and then realise you have to learn it all over again and it’s much harder this time. sucks!!

[coquelicoq]

reading while sleep-deprived in a language in which you're not fluent is the same thing as solving riddles. i just read the sentence

"[C]et événement m'ayant surpris au milieu d'une fête de famille, le jour même de mes fiançailles, j'ai tout quitté, fiancée et amis, tout remis à un autre temps pour venir déposer aux pieds de Votre Majesté et les craintes dont j'étais atteint et l'assurance de mon dévouement." (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, p. 102)

and it took me multiple minutes to figure out what the "et" before "les craintes" was doing. but i figured it out! and now i've got that little puzzle-solving high going.

[sasquapossum]

[Text: Simulations suggest more wind than thought on Mars for powering turbines]

Well, there’s zero thought on Mars because there are no Martians. So of course there’s more wind.

[quil12]

In terms of grammar in writing, I don’t think anything confuses me more than the distinction between ‘onto’ and ‘on to’

[growth2233]

PREPOSITION

[seething-river]

Letting the editor out

I'm currently writing something that hit a major plot hole that could be solved with editing. Normally I'm very opposed to editing while writing but I don't think I can go forward without fixing it.

So I guess I'll let the editor have some developmental editing. You know, as a treat.

[mylinguaacademy]

Adjective + Preposition Collocations

Hi English learners! Welcome to a new lesson. We will look at some common adjective+ preposition collocations with about, at, by, for, from, in, of, to, with. Adjective + preposition collocations with ABOUT Angry about

The citizens were angry about the corruption.

Anxious about

She felt rather anxious about her health.

Embarrassed about

She felt embarrassed…

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[shamimmiah]

Preposition "to":

Where to use “to”: Direction or Movement: Examples: We are going to the park. She walked to the store. Indicating a Point in Time: Examples: The meeting is scheduled to start at 3 PM. He usually goes to bed at midnight. Expressing Comparison: Examples: Her response was similar to mine. The new model is superior to the old one. Purpose or Use: Examples: I need a knife to cut the…