Moscow Vyssaja Skola

The purpose of this book. English, like all languages, is full of problems for the foreign learner. Somé of these problems are easy to explain - for instance, the formation of questions, the difference between since and for, the meaning of after all. Other problems are more tricky, and cause...

THE STORY OF A CARPENTER by William Saroyan My Grandmother Lucy knew no end of stories. Here Is one of them which is to illustrate the absurdity of despair. IVs the story of a carpenter who lived many hundreds of years ago. One day on his way home he was stopped by a friend who said: "My brother,...

HISTORY OF PEDIATRICS I. Translate the word combinations with the given key-terms: pediatrics: Russian pediatrics; scientific pediatrics; history of pediatrics, successes of pediatrics, Russian clinical pediatrics, development of pediatrics, problems of pediatrics; pediatric: pediatric science;...

PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS S tylistics, sometimes called linguo-stylistics, is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investigation of the inventory of special...