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Rules for Possesive Pronouns

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As their names imply, possessive pronouns show ownership. The independent possessive pronouns are mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs. We break down each type and offer examples of their usage below. Possessive pronouns are a type of possessive noun. Also called absolute possessive pronouns, possessive pronouns simplify constructions that show possession of a noun by replacing it—in other words, independent possessive pronouns must stand alone and be used without a noun. To understand how possessive pronouns can make things simpler and clearer, first take a look at this example of a sentence that does not use a possessive pronoun: Juan’s peace lilies were healthier than my peace lilies. It sounds repetitive and feels a little unnecessary to state “peace lilies” twice in this sentence. Rewriting with a possessive pronoun simplifies things: Juan’s peace lilies were healthier than mine. Examples: My phone is dead. Pass me yours. Did you know that Labrador is mine? The house on t
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The Unreal Conditional

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  Sentences in the "unreal" conditional have one part of the sentence that begins with the word "if" and contains a verb in what looks like the past tense and another part of the sentence which contains the modal verb "would." If the part of the sentence with "if" goes first, use a comma. These sentences are known as "unreal" conditional because they contain conditions that are not likely (probable). For example, in the sentence below, winning the lottery is not very likely. If I won the lottery, I would buy a new car. I would buy a new car if I won the lottery. If we had a private airplane, we would travel around the world. If I was rich, I would travel around the world. If I had a car , I would drive everywhere. If I were a king , I would contribute in many charity associations in all the world. If I were you , I would wear that wonderful dress.
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Moral Dilemmas, What is it?

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Morality is defined as the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour. What makes these questions dilemmas is an individual’s definition of right and wrong or good and bad. However, in a time when many question our national moral character, pondering what to do in various situations can be a positive exercise preparing an individual for worst and best case scenarios. For example,  You go out with your husband for dinner at a new restaurant you have not frequented before. It is in a part of town you rarely visit. You are shocked to see your friend’s spouse having dinner with a very young, attractive person. From the way they are behaving, it is obvious they are more than friends. The couple finish their meal and leave without seeing you. They behave very affectionately on the way out the door.  Do you: Tell your friend, knowing you probably will not be believed and that it may ruin your friendship? Say nothing about seeing the couple as it is
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I literally live in cyberspace

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  We call cyberspace a non-physical world, which has no limits, where any person can be interconnected only with a network connection in such a way that they can interact with the whole world without barriers. I am a systems engineer and I spend my time in cyberspace, to code, to edit documents, to create applications because that is my job. Learning to use cyberspace is as good as learning math because you learn to use tools that will serve us all our lives, such as knowing how to manage files. The importance of cyberspace is that an environment has been created where information behaves freely, being accessible to a much larger number of people and where there are varied communication channels with different ways of seeing everything. Cyberspace has developed enormous productivity from an economic point of view, as well as an enormous promise for the future. In fact today it is possible to work from many places and with all the necessary information instantly. Immediate contact at
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What did I learn about the passive voice?

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The passive voice is a structure in English commonly used when you want your texts or speech to sound more formal. However, it is not a structure that you should use in every sentence of your speech, as this can make it difficult to understand your message. It is very common to find this structure in the news. Let's see why . The passive voice is used when: You want to be more formal. You don't know who or what performs the action in the sentence. The subject in the sentence is NOT relevant. You want to focus on the object of the sentence and not the subject. Examples: His new book was just published. Su nuevo libro acaba de publicarse. The girl was raised in a boarding school. La niña fue criada en un internado. The song was written by Shakira. La canción fue escrita por Shakira.
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What kinds of art do you prefer?

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  I am one of the people who thinks that abstract art is one of the freest and most beautiful forms of art, because it allows the human being to connect with his inner part more directly because he is not forced to represent something that already exists. (such as a landscape or a person) but something that comes purely and completely from within. The importance of abstract art is precisely to allow the artist freedom, to get to know each other better and open his world so that many thousands of people can meet him and feel intrigued by him. In the case of abstract art, identity, individuality, history and the desires of the person carrying out the work gain importance because it is about creating new worlds that no one else knows and that are made public from there. Many times, not even the abstract artists themselves know what they are going to represent and they find themselves working on their works for months and years until they are satisfied with what they achieve, since what th
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¿Can your favorite color reveal your personality?

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All of us at some point in our lives have thought of a favorite color, the one that while we are walking through a shopping center and we stop to see clothes of that color we want to buy , not just clothes, shoes, notebooks, bags, etc. One day I was thinking if our favorite color can influence our personality so much and I found this. The psychology of color is a recent field of study, its research aims to find out the implications that each hue has on our minds and their corresponding mental processes. Although there is no science dedicated to this, theories have recently appeared that affirm the existence of a psychological effect of colors in our decision-making and in the personality of each individual. This field of study is being used in various areas such as marketing , advertising , event organization and, recently, in the study of human personality. The relationship between colors and personality can be understood as follows: each color or hue produces an effect or sensat
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