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To most readers, the name of Arthur Conan Doyle will forever be connected with the worldโs most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusted friend Dr Watson. The celebrated writer of detective stories based his whole literary career on extolling the virtues of science, reason and logical thinking, which leaves many surprised to learn that …
[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, CEFR level B1 and above. It is also available in a slightly adapted version in Serbian.] Correlative conjunctions are used to join words, phrases or clauses within a sentence. They always come in pairs, which is where learners sometimes make mistakes. In languages such as …
Korist od uฤenja klasiฤnih jezika je ogromna. U sluฤaju latinskog, ovladavanje ovim jezikom otvara vrata ka ogromnom knjiลพevnom i nauฤnom nasleฤu stvaranom tokom dva milenijuma, a posredno moลพe biti od velike pomoฤi i pri uฤenju niza savremenih jezika - i to ne samo romanskih: najmanje 60% engleskog vokabulara potiฤe iz latinskog, ลกto direktno, ลกto indirektno. …
Think of literary vampires, and everyoneโs first association is bound to be Bram Stokerโs Dracula hailing from that dark, mystifying land of Transylvania. Enormously influential as it has been, Dracula had a notable antecedent in the form of an even more ground-breaking, yet lesser known, vampiric antagonist - Carmilla - created by the Irish novelist …
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