Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...
"Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase for asking for excuse for one's profanity by the humorous assertion that the swear words were from the French language.
A present open conditional normally has the indicative in both halves. Various tenses are possible, but the present or perfect are common: si iam melius valēs, vehementer gaudeō (Cicero) [44] 'if you are in better health now, I am very glad' sī peccāvī, īnsciēns fēcī (Terence) [45] 'if I did wrong, I did so unwittingly'
Bob Dylan songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s.. A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).
A conditional baptism is a baptism performed in such a way as to only be effective if the person is not already baptized. In a conditional baptism, the minister of the sacrament says: