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Jhumjhum Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Jerome K Jerome
"That even his school master had said it was worth the rule of three and practice put together."
What does this phrase mean ?This line is from A Fishy story by Jerome K Jerome.
What does this phrase mean ?This line is from A Fishy story by Jerome K Jerome.
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org/wiki/Writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things. The reader/audience to this form of text is also more likely to consume information if it is written in groups of threes. ") to films, many things are structured in threes.
- org/wiki/Writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things.
- The reader/audience to this form of text is also more likely to consume information if it is written in groups of threes.
- ") to films, many things are structured in threes.
- org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges .
- org/wiki/Progression in which the tension is created, then built up, and finally released.
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From Wikipaedia:
The rule of three is a principle in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things. The reader/audience to this form of text is also more likely t
The rule of three is a principle in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things. The reader/audience to this form of text is also more likely t
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rule of three is clear, but would you please explain what does the whole sentence mean? if you could please paraphrase it, i mean if you could please convert it into simple English as i am going to teach it tomorrow to my students.
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Jhumjhum has not supplied enough text to understand what 'it' is, so I cannot, sorry.
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The following extract is taken from one of Jorome k Jerome's humorous stories,
And then he told us the real history of the fish. It seemed that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was quite a lad; not by any art or skill, but by that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bi
And then he told us the real history of the fish. It seemed that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was quite a lad; not by any art or skill, but by that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bi
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His schoolmaster thought that catching a fine trout was better than studying in school.
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