Mar 14, 2015 · Bough: Any of the larger branches of a tree; In general, twigs are where leaves and flowers bud from. Branches are where twigs originate. Prunus Twig (credits: Wikimedia) Ivy Branch (Credits: GraphicsSoft) I couldn't find a satisfying image for boughs. Sorry about that.

Oct 8, 2016 · "A-swing" means roughly the same as "would be on the bough swinging", but that wouldn't rhyme. Compare with "asleep" = "sleeping". To fit the rhyme scheme of the poem the third and fourth lines in each stanza must rhyme. The stress of …

Even the word "bough" is ill chosen. A bough is sizable. It does not float like a fan quietly to earth. Nor is a bough fresh and tender. What is meant is "shoot" or "sprig," and I greatly doubt that you can actually hear a new shoot drop from a tree. I sympathize. It must be hard to learn English from texts written by those whose own English is ...

May 29, 2015 · bough (rhymes with cow) As for the rules, the only one I can think of is that the pronunciation found in thought only happens with the ough is followed by a "t". Other than that, there's really no way to tell by looking at the word. I remember the first time I met someone with the last name of Gough.

"under the shade of a tree" or "in the shade of a tree". OP had enquired why the first sentence is wrong. The two sentences are: 1.He sat under the shade of a tree. 2.He sat in the shade of a tree. But as per the dictionary, both the sentences are correct. Ref. Cambridge dictionary shade. noun. (SLIGHT DARKNESS).

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Oct 22, 2022 · I built a treehouse / tree house. I don't think there's any doubt that it's a compound noun, and therefore it should be written as a single word, possibly hyphenated as "tree-house". If it's written as two words i.e. tree house", it would be a syntactic construction consisting of head ("house") and modifier ("tree").

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Aug 13, 2015 · Here's a famous quote from the book that says: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Mar 10, 2016 · "It" is the pronoun used (in general). You may want to know more from this link, definition 1 copied below: "that one —used as subject or direct object or indirect object of a verb or object of a preposition usually in reference to a lifeless thing (took a quick look at the house and noticed it was very old), a plant (there is a rosebush near …