about the summary question,
What are the words given to help us to begin the summary?

aloysius

I believe that the reason why there is a comma in front of the co-ordinating conjunction “and” is because the second main clause was thrown in as an afterthought… meaning that the writer did not intend to include it until halfway through the sentence The comma causes a “jitter” in the reading, which may indicate an afterthought

Hope this is useful to all Final call for files to save my behind

Alex

i have a question: why is there, at times, the word “and” after the comma??? [this is to question 8 of ex. 104] i don’t really quite get it… why do they put the comma there for when they know its gonna be a co-ordinating conjunction (in this case “and”) to continue and complete that sentence?

feel free to answer to 5a1!!!

regards, rey…XD

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Alex

1. Disheartened
? To shake or destroy the courage or resolution of; dispirit
? Made less hopeful or enthusiastic
2. Discouraged
? To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit.
3. Upset
? To distress or perturb mentally or emotionally
4. Crestfallen
? dejected; dispirited; discouraged
5. Demoralized
? to corrupt or undermine the morals of
6. In blue funk (?)
? “Not available”!!
7. Downcast
? Low in spirits; depressed
8. Nerve
? impudent aggressiveness
9. Daunt
? to lessen the courage of; dishearten
10. Depressed
? Sad and without enthusiasm
11. Melancholic
? Deep sadness which lasts for some time; depression
12. Disconsolate
? Unhappy; refusing to be comforted
13. Downbeat
? gloomy; pessimistic
? relaxed; not showing strong feelings
14. Dissuaded
? To stop somebody by advice or persuasion
15. Caved in
? fall inwards; collapse
16. Crush
? to overwhelm with confusion, chagrin, or humiliation, as by argumentation or a slighting action or remark; squelch
? to oppress grievously
17. deter
? to discourage or restrain
18. Rejected
? To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of
? To refuse to consider or grant; deny
19. unmotivated (cannot be moved)
? Having no motive or incentive
20. dampen
? to dull or deaden; depress: to dampen one’s spirits
21. Gloomy
? Sad and depressed

22. Shot down
? “Not available”!! too
23. Neglected
? showing a lack of care or attention
? disregarded
24. Dejected
? Depressed; sad
25. Despondent
? Having or showing loss of hope; wretched
26. Woebegone
? Looking unhappy
? Affected with or marked by deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness
27. Forlorn
? desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable
28. morose
? very unhappy, bad-tempered and silent; sullen
29. low spirit
?
30. Downhearted
? dejected; depressed; discouraged
31. emo
?
32. Glum
? sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected

i can tell that the author of this life story of this is feeling regret, sorrow, lonely again and perhaps damnation (sorry of this word is too explicit)… why do i say damnation? basically, he is damning both himself and the ex-girlfriend of his… he damns himself for being so silly in love that it totally blinded him when his ex rejected his proposal… he damns his ex because she was just always toying around with his feelings… take ine 33 for example, it quotes “no love… not in her eyes, not in her words”… he must had hated her for doing that…

i have this feeling that the writer’s ex is a spoilt brad who had been pampered maybe in her childhood years… she is a “hard-to-impress” type of lady…

why things didn’t work out between them? simply, that spoilt brad had being toying with the writer’s feelings all along… and the writer blinded easily, kept falling into the pit…

the writer, in the starting of the story, used one technique called suspense… which make it quite interesting though… XD

all i have to say abt this is until here…

regards, rey XD

yeah! its true! it does hold a truth in me! ever since i wiki it, it did made sense to me and i started to believe in this phrase in every thing i do, be it homework, exams, competition etc… in homework, i will get to the correct answer one way or another… for exams, after meeting targets, yes i know i would get it, i anticipate it to be that way… competitions, like badminton, my cca, i have hardly any skill to defeat my opponents… but then, BELIEVE is the keyword… i know, that one day, maybe let’s say ten years down the road? i may be able to defeat my friends…

this is because you visualize yourself as the person doing that successful thing… let us say O levels… my target is to get below 8… everyday, i tell myself i WILL get that aggreigate score… and that is already in two words - “I think” and then therefore, through hard work, effort, sacrificing your time, blood, sweat and such, the results will still be there, even though you may not reach it, at least you are just that ONE step away from there… and all those i mentioned just now, indicates three words - “therefore i am”

I think to myself that I AM the person who is going to get an aggreigate score less than 8, THEREFORE I AM the person who is gonna get that aggreigate score of 8…

regards, rey… XD