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What you have is a noun clause that begins with that.
That-clause as a noun clause
A that-clause is an example of a noun clause. It can be the subject or the object of the verb.
The that-clause is "that evils had power" and the given sentence (in OP) is grammatical. Such a construction mi...
A friend of mine recently got this question wrong on a test, but the teacher apparently wasn't able to explain why they got it wrong (at least not clearly).
The question is:
__________ is a known fact today, but it was considered a dangerous lie when it was proposed.
The Earth is round
That th...
A bandura (Ukrainian: банду́ра) is a Ukrainian, plucked string, folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings. In the 20th century, the number of strings increased initially to 31 strings (1926) , 56 strings (1954) and up to 68 strings on chromaticism 'concert' instruments.
Musicians who play the bandura are referred to as bandurists. Some traditional bandura players, often blind, were referred to as kobzars.
== Etymology ==
The earliest mention of the term bandura...
Precision is a description of random errors, a measure of statistical variability.
Accuracy has two definitions:
more commonly, it is a description of systematic errors, a measure of statistical bias;
alternatively, ISO defines accuracy as describing both types of observational error above (preferring the term trueness for the common definition of accuracy).
== Common definition ==
In the fields of science, engineering and statistics, the accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity's true value. The precision of a measurement system...
Petersburg (Tlingit: Gantiyaakw Séedi "Steamboat Channel") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 2,824 according to 2009 Census Bureau estimates.
The borough encompasses Petersburg and Kupreanof, plus mostly uninhabited areas stretching to the Canada–US border and the southern boundary of the City and Borough of Juneau. While the city of Petersburg ceased to exist as a separate administrative entity (the borough assembly created a service area to assume operation of the former city's services), the tiny city of Kupreanof remains separate...
Kupreanof is a city at the eastern shore of Kupreanof Island in the Petersburg Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 23 at the 2000 census, making it the smallest incorporated city in the state.
== History ==
Among the incorporators of Kupreanof were former longtime and much beloved Petersburg Grade School Principal Harold Bergman. Kupreanof was once called West Petersburg and was a thriving community of fur farms and commercial fishermen in the early to mid -20th century. Gradually most residents moved over to the larger, more metropolitan city of Petersburg. The 29th 'resident...
The Tlingit (/ˈklɪŋkᵻt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡᵻt/; also spelled Tlinkit) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is Lingít, meaning "People of the Tides" (pronounced [ɬɪnkɪ́t]). The Russian name Koloshi (Колоши) (from an Sugpiaq-Alutiiq term kulut'ruaq for the labret worn by women) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered referring to the people in older historical literature, such as Shelikhov's 1796 map of Russian America.
The Tlingit have a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into the mother's clan, and property a...
Can I say the sentence in the following context?
Now it's 7 pm, my friend Jane said " The train leaves at 8 pm"
Can I say
Jane said that the train left at 8 pm.(becauses now it is just 7 pm)
Russian Invasion of Tabriz, 1911 (Persian: (اشغال تبریز بدست قوای روس (۱۲۹۰ خورشیدی) refers to the attack and invasion of the city of Tabriz in the north western part of Iran in December 1911 by Imperial Russia. The Russian invasion which lasted up to the course of World War I. This occupation was in retaliation to the Iranian Parliament's refusal to accept the Russian ultimatum. The Russian Ultimatum had three major requests from the Iranian government, amongst which the most important was to depose the newly employed American lawyer, Morgan Shuster. Shuster was assigned by the Parliament of Iran...
The Persia Constitution of 1906 was the first constitution of Persia (Iran) that resulted from the Persian Constitutional Revolution and it was written by Hassan Pirnia, Hossein Pirnia and Ismail Mumtaz among others. It divides into five chapters with many articles that developed over several years.The Belgian constitution, like the constitutions of other European states, served as a partial model for the Iranian constitution.
== The electoral and fundamental laws of 1906 ==
The electoral and fundamental laws of 1906 established the electoral system and the internal frameworks of the Majl...
Howard Conklin Baskerville (10 April 1885 – 19 April 1909) was an American teacher in the American Memorial School in Tabriz (a Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran) who was killed fighting for Iranian democracy during the Constitution Revolution. He has been called the "American Lafayette in Iran." (J. Lorentz)
== Life and death ==
Baskerville was born in North Platte, Nebraska, and was raised in the Black Hills. Both his father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers. He graduated in 1907 from Princeton University, where in addition to studying religion and boxing, he took two courses...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM; simplified Chinese: 中医; traditional Chinese: 中醫; pinyin: Zhōngyī) is a style of traditional Asian medicine informed by modern medicine but built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. It is primarily used as a complementary alternative medicine approach. TCM is widely used in China and is becoming increasingly prevalent in Europe and North America.
One of the basic tenets of TCM "holds that the body's vital energy...
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British biographical drama film in Technicolor based on Robert Bolt's play of the same name and adapted for the big screen by Bolt himself. It was released on 12 December 1966. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, who had previously directed the films High Noon and From Here to Eternity. The film won six Oscars at the 39th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
The film and play both depict the final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England who refused to sign a letter asking Pope Clement VII to annul King...
Becket is a 1964 Anglo-American dramatic film adaptation of the play Becket or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Peter Glenville and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Joseph H. Hazen as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Edward Anhalt based on Anouilh's play. The music score was by Laurence Rosenthal, the cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth and the editing by Anne V. Coates.
The film stars Richard Burton as Thomas Becket and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, with John Gielgud as King Louis VII, Donald...
Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], German meaning "The Boat") is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV miniseries, and in several different home video versions of various running times.
An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel of the same name, the film is set during World War II and tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of battle and...
He got to the top and was (1) very frustrated when he found that (2) someone else (3) had reached it earlier. (4)
This is a question which I came across while attempting a test.
It asked me to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. And the error, if any, will be...
I have few confusions regarding the usage of very and very much.
1. From OALD I found this usage guide -
It states that very can be used with past participles used as adjectives, but not with past participles that have a passive meaning.
Now here comes the confusion. How to distinguish be...00:00 - 17:0017:00 - 00:00
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