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Q: is this sentence exclamatory?

mombunniMy son got this question wrong on his test and I have always been under the impression that an exclamatory sentence has an exclamation mark. Can someone please clarify? Boy, I bet you're tired after that walk.

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Q: meaning of a sentence from Agatha Christie (Murder of Roger Ackroyd)

user58207The sentence is from a paragraph (Murder of Roger Ackroyd) as below; “Did Poirot ask you any more questions?” I inquired. “Only about the patients you had that morning.” “The patients?” I demanded, unbelievingly. “Yes, your surgery patients. How many and who they were?” “Do you mean to say you we...

 
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6:33 AM
@CowperKettle This was an interesting experiment but it was immediately obvious which one was the ChatGPT story.
@ClaraDíazSanchez I'm around. Just haven't had much to say (and feeling guilty about the Satire review)
 
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10:13 AM
posted on September 17, 2024

Since 2012, Mali has been fighting Islamist groups in the northern part of the country. Islamism in Mail isn’t new. Maryse Condé already described it in her novel Ségou: Les Murailles de terre, published 30 years ago. Condé was born in Guadeloupe, but lived in West Africa in the 1960s and dedicated the novel to her Bambara ancestor. Ségou: Les Murailles de terre begins in July 1797, when the o

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@Feeds My 21st review.
 
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Q: Book about a new student in a cruel school

Pastychomper thanks MonicaThis novel was used as part of a UK secondary school lesson (or several lessons?) in the early 90s. We might have read the whole thing, or just some excerpts. I think it was before English literature came under the National Curriculum, so it could have been simply a favourite of that school or te...

 
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8:56 PM
Shakespeare’s Bear by Harry Oxford: Shakespeare's son Hamnet buys an abandoned bear cub and names him Mummer. "Hamnet and Mummer’s adventure of survival in 16th Century England is recounted through Mummer the bear’s own eyes and senses..."
> Methought I was a child of the Shakespeare family but with more fur.
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid.
Lady Mabeth by Susan Fraser King (Penguin RandomHouse, 2009).
Jul 31 at 11:13, by Feeds
posted on July 31, 2024

Lady Macbeth is without a doubt Shakespeare’s most frightening female character. But how did she become like this? In Act 1, scene 7, she says she once suckled a child, but that is about all we learn about her life before the events in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. On top of that, she doesn’t even have her own name. In the First Folio, she is only referred to as “Lady”, which later e

It looks like there are enough Lady Macbeth backstories to fill a reading challenge ...
Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa M. Klein.
And another one about rejected love interests in Shakespeare's plays: Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons (Romeo's love interest before Juliet); Ophelia by Lisa Klein. I'm sure there are others
9:59 PM
@Tsundoku I, for one, just haven't been as active on StackExchange lately.
10:16 PM
I've been traveling recently, so I haven't been around much

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