Riddle of the week!

You're the driver of a bus. You stop on a corner and pick up 3 people. At the second stop 2 people get off and 5 people get on. At the next stop 7 people get on and 4 people get off. At the fourth stop, 7 people get on and 6 people get off. Finally, at the last stop, 3 people get on and 5 people get off. How old is the bus driver?

Phrasal Verbs

"There is another kind of composition more frequent in our language than perhaps in any other, from which arises to foreigners the greatest difficulty. We modify the signification of many words by a particle subjoined"
Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
Put off???
Run into???
Come up with???

Problems with Phrasal Verbs?

What is a Phrasal Verb?

A phrasal verb is composed by a simple verb and (i) an adverbial particle; (ii) a preposition or (iii) and adverbial particle and a preposition. The meaning of this "composition" is different from that of its separate parts. The phrasal verbs reflect the capacity of economy in language, and are widely used in English.
To find the meaning of these (and other) phrasal verbs, go to:http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/search.php

New Year's Resolutions

Have you made your New Year's Resolutions yet?
Tell us about them!

Writer of the Month - Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 (January 25) and committed suicide in 1941, when she intendedly drowned herself with the pockets of her coat full of stones. She is considered one of the foremost modernist and feminist writers of the twentieth century. Her literary production is rich in allusions to women’s intellectual freedom.
According to her, “Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundreds of years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves.” (1929 A Room of One's Own)
Fortunately, things have slightly changed since these lines were written!

Ben Harper - Better Way

I'm a living sunset
Lightning in my bones
Push me to the edge
But my will is stone

Fools will be fools
And wise will be wise
But i will look this world
Straight in the eyes

What good is a man
Who won't take a stand
What good is a cynic
With no better plan

Reality is sharp
It cuts at me like a knife
Everyone i know
Is in the fight of their life

Take your face out of your hands
And clear your eyes
You have a right to your dreams
And don't be denied

I believe in a better way