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POPSSchoolhouse Rock - lyrics & links to videos on YouTube I got an urge to hear the Preamble again: In 1787 I'm told Our founding fathers did agree To write a list of principles For keepin' people free. The U.S.A. was just startin' out. A whole brand-new country. And so our people spelled it out The things that we should be. And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it's been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do. We the people, In order to form a more perfect union, Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, Provide for the common defense, Promote the general welfare and Secure the blessings of liberty To ourselves and our posterity Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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POPSPic-lits Artistic way of creating sentences for artistic photos. Cool activity for ESL.
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POPSHow to write - some reminders Let it rest. Never write up to a deadline. Allow your writing at least a few hours, a day or two if you can, before you come back to it. Cut, cut, cut. You’ve been told that a piece of writing should be exactly as long as it needs to be to get its point across. That’s wrong – it should be half that long. Rewrite. You’ll break all these rules in your first draft. That’s why it’s called a “first” and not “only” draft. Writers just don’t get it right the first time – cut, cut, cut and rework your text into a lean, tight, and clear piece of work.
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POPSgrammatical and other properties of curse words "The Clean Airwaves Act assumed that fucking is a participial adjective. But this is not correct. With a true adjective like lazy, you can alternate between Drown the lazy cat and Drown the cat which is lazy. But Drown the fucking cat is certainly not interchangeable with Drown the cat which is fucking. If the fucking in fucking brilliant is to be assigned a traditional part of speech, it would be adverb, because it modifies an adjective and only adverbs can do that, as in truly bad, very nice, and really big. Yet "adverb" is the one grammatical category that Ose forgot to include in his list! As it happens, most expletives aren't genuine adverbs, either. One study notes that, while you can say That's too fucking bad, you can't say That's too very bad. Also, as linguist Geoffrey Nunberg pointed out, while you can imagine the dialogue How brilliant was it? Very, you would never hear the dialogue How brilliant was it? Fucking."
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POPSEnglish Lanugage quizzes in my experience, even some native speakers would do well to take some of these quizzes to raise their awareness for the English language! great collection - generally a useful site for English language teaching and learning. loads more at source.
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POPS50 Writing Tools I notice that some people here try to build up their fragile egos by using doublespeak when actually they only come across as a book-snob. I usually just feel sorry for them. Here's a great site with 50 writing suggestions that might help bring those people back down to earth. Remember, it's OK to keep it simple.
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POPSWord database Extensive database with fast load times. The provided definitions are direct and effective.
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POPSWe Feel Fine A visualized human feelings database... difficult to explain. Just clidk 'Open We Feel Fine' & check it out yourself At the core of We Feel Fine is a data collection engine that automatically scours the Internet every ten minutes, harvesting human feelings from a large number of blogs. Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling" Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified "feelings". This list of valid feelings was constructed by hand, but basically consists of adjectives and some adverbs. The full list of valid feelings, along with the total count of each feeling, and the color assigned to each feeling
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POPSRandomly-generated 'scientific paper' accepted Starting with skeleton sentences, pools of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and a random assortment of computer science jargon, the program produced a grammatically correct yet utterly nonsensical paper titled: "Rooter: a methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy". :)
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