This simplest of words can be used for dramatic effect. At the start of Hamlet, a guard’s utterance of ‘Long live the King’ is soon followed by the apparition of the ghost: ‘Looks it not like the King?’ Who, the audience wonders, does ‘the’ refer to? The living King or a dead King? This kind of ambiguity is the kind of ‘hook’ that writers use to make us quizzical, a bit uneasy even.

“‘The’ is doing a lot of work here,” says Rosen.

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Есть хорошая поговорка - горбатого могила исправит. As the saying goes, bad blood cannot be hid. Мне кажется, горбатого могила исправит, ведь так? I guess old habits die hard with you, don't they? Надо же было родиться таким святошей! Нет, горбатого могила исправит. In fairness, they're easier to pity. ??? То, что горбатого могила исправит. What happened is, a tiger doesn't change their stripes. Но, видимо, горбатого могила исправит. Guess you can't wash the stink off trash. Потому что, горбатого могила исправит. Because a tiger doesn't change his spots. Знаешь, горбатого могила исправит, Джэймс. You know, a tiger doesn't change his stripes, James. Горбатого могила исправит, а также чирлидера. Leopards and cheerleaders don't change their spots. ??? Мы говорили на разных языках. А знаешь пословицу: «Горбатого могила исправит» A leopard can't change its spots. Нет, горбатого могила исправит. In fairness, they're easier to pity. ??? Ну, горбатого могила исправит? But can the leopard change his spots? Знаете, горбатого только могила исправит. You know, leopards don't change their spots. Горбатого только могила исправит. Nothing can fix the devil. Выдумал: "Красного могила исправит"! Уильямс не красный! "Reform the Reds with a rope." Williams isn't a Red, and you know it. Тебя только могила исправит. You are a total wipe-off. ???

While Duolingo and Busuu both offer free and paid-for premium versions, Babbel is only free for the first week. All three have put a lot of work into their software to try to make the learning process as effective as possible. But are they actually any good? How proficient can people get in another language by using them? Renowned linguist Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, is not very complimentary. "My analyses of their results show that they achieve the same mediocre results as traditional methods do in regular classrooms, and produce the same lack of enthusiasm from students," he says. "We don't acquire language by speaking or writing, even when we get our errors corrected. Rather, the ability to speak and write fluently and accurately is the result of language acquisition via comprehensible input, such as good books, movies and interesting stories."

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(German, French, Spanish etc.) has a ban on the use of the Present Perfect with adverbials of the past time. The rule is regularly broken (especially in the genre of the news), as may be seen below (the adverbial of the past time in yellow): John le Carr

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