He Forgot

They fall off the roof.

From Twitter:

①_ man want_ to buy gift_ for his worker_.
④ He go__ to Radiohub to get phone-case_.
③___ ___ ___ office he put__ ___ case_ on __ roof of ___ car as he open_ ___ door.
④ On ___ way __ __ office they fall off ___ top of ___ car.

Use More Than Once:
to
es
his
the
way
heading
on
a
s

Answers And Explanation:
① [A] man want[s] to buy gift[s] for his worker[s].
② He go[es] to Radiohub to get phone-case[s].
③ [Heading] [to] [the] office he put[s] [the] case[s] on [the] roof of [his] car as he open[s] [the] door.
④ On [the] way [to] [the] office they fall off [the] top of [the] car.


① A man is a new man in the story; the man (or “he”) is one already spoken about and known to the listener(s).
A man wants in general situations. The ‘s‘ is there to show we are talking about 1 man in the present tense.
We buy gifts ora gift for persons or a person. He is buying for workers, so buys more than 1.
② A man sometimes, usually, always or never goes somewhere. We use this tense for telling stories. The man buys phone cases because he has many employees.
Heading to a place means starting to go to that place. ‘To’ is a pre-position. It comes “pre” or before the position. As with all prepositions, it is there to indicate the relationship between the subject and the object (the destination). Our man heads to the office, because it is his office; it is known. He puts the cases on the roof of his car. The cases, because they are known cases. The roof of the car, because the car has one roof, and it’s his car because he owns it. He opens the door; it’s the door because the car has one door that the man is opening.
On the way to the office means while going to the office. This clause (A group of words containing a subject and verb phrase is “a clause”) shows when they (the cases) fall off the top of the car. It’s the top, because the car has only one top.

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Epictetus 1

From Twitter:

“You are not you’re body and hair style,
but your capacity for choosing well.
If your choices are beautiful,
so too will you be.

#Epictetus
(Italics, mine)

The Greek philosopher meant:
a. Mind is better than body.
b. Fashion is choice.
c. Our choices make us.
d. We are mind, not body.

Answer And Explanation
I think the answer is C. I mean–that is the best answer, in my view–because yes d.sounds correct, but I think it isn’t; we are notmind or body; we are both (many philosophers, scientists, and physiologists, these days, think it is true that mind and body are not separate; they are one thing).

Choice a. also could be mistaken for the answer; surely, religion teaches people that “the soul” (really a spiritual word for the mind) is the thing that matters. This is what leads people to think that they are (a spirit or a mind) “riding around in their heads”, as philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris says. This also seems wrong. “You,” or your mind, is no more separate from your body than your cornea is separate from your eye.

Choice b. is probably correct, but anyone who thinks that the great and honored philosopher #Epectitus was merely talking about fashion (in this statement) must be missing the point.

Whale of A Timeって何?

From Twitter:
1. A. _ animal do ya think is _ smartest?
2. B. _ Blue whale.
3. A. _ whale?
B. It’s been here millions of years.
A. ?
4. B. It’s the largest mammal, with _ brain _ size of _ car.
A. That makes it smartest?
B. Its behavior, brain size…. It’s likely; we just can’t talk.

*the
*a
*what

Information: Blue whales are actually the largest known beings to have lived on the planet. A Blue Whale can grow to 90 feet long and is larger than the largest dinosaurs. Pink whales cannot. In fact, Blue whales do not allow pin whales to join in any Blue whale games. No, that’s not true; I’m just kidding. They do. I mean there is no such thing as a pink whale (unless of course a blue whale goes to a costume party or something. No. I’m joking. There are no costume parties for whales. They keep a strict dress code. A Blue can weigh as much as 130 tons. Imagine maintaining that diet!

Answers And Explanation:
1. what; self-explanatory: ‘what’ is the question word for things in question.
2. the
3. the
4. the, the, the
The is article is necessary to use in discussions of an object or abstract thing in general terms.

主婦ってHousewife?

Your mom married a house?

From Twitter:

A. What do your parents do–if I may ask?
B. Sure. My dad’s a juggler and comedian, and my mom is a housewife.
A. “…”
B. What: why so confused?
A. Your mom married a house?
B. Huh?
A. You said she’s a housewife.
B. Yeah.
A. No, no, no. She’s a __

Choose:

*midwife
*home-wife
*homemaker

Answer And Explanation

The answer is ‘homemaker‘, because we like to be more polite to people making a home. Saying house-husband or house-wife sounds demeaning.

Subpoena

From Twitter:
A. Trumper: What’s wrong w/ defying subpoenas?
B. Patriot: Huh?
A: Self-defense is a right!
B: So, ya go to Congress and do it!
A: If not guilty, why go?
B: That’s not his decision. And defying Congress is illegal.

A subpoena is:
*a court order to appear
*a ticket
*a penalty

Answer: “a court order to appear”
Explanation:
a subpoena is a letter from the state, federal court-or from the Congress (the House of Representatives in the USA–(one of the three co-equal branches of the US government) informing a citizen that s/he must appear in (come to) court or Congress to answer questions at a hearing or face criminal charges in a trial.

Following this order is not an option and when someone violates it (doesn’t appear or come to the court or Congress) s/he is “in contempt” of court or Congress; this is especially serious (bad) if it is the behavior of federal employees such as the President or his staff, because it signifies (shows) that s/he or they feel they are above the law; in this case, the law that gives equal power to the three branches of government.

This is particularly serious when considering that the whole point of the American democracy and it’s republic is to share power-meaning to prevent power from being consolidated (concentrated) in one man or body, such as in a king or his staff.

So when the Trump administration began defying (disobeying) the law and not honoring (respecting and following) subpoenas from the Congress, it meant that the power in Washington was shifting to the President and his staff, meaning that the peoples’ power in the Congress and Senate was being disrespected and thus that the president was above the law; this is how democracy begins to crumble.

Castaway (“If Only”)

From Twitter:

A castaway* on a deserted island says:

“If I only had a lighter and a flare gun!”**

The suggested idea is (Choose):
a. He had only those things, but lost them.
b. He needs things–most of all those things, so then he could help himself with them.
c. He wishes he had just a lighter and flare gun.

*A castaway
is a person who has been cast (or “thrown”, but not by someone else) away, meaning “lost” in a forgotten, hard-to-locate or distant and “uncivilized” place–away from society, such as a island in the Pacific Ocean.

**A flare gun fires a non-destructive glowing projectile (a flare) into the sky; 1. it is used to send an emergency signal in order for the user to show others his location, so that s/he can be found and rescued. 2. In war time it is used to illuminate where the enemy is.

Answer: The answer is b.: He needs things–most of all those things (the flare gun and lighter), so then he could help himself with them.

Explanation: The answer isn’t a., because if only I had is a conditional clause expressing a wish for the present, not regret about the past. And the answer isn’t c., because who would wish for only some necessary items and not others–and what would be the point of saying this in the narrative (story)?