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Hi Everybody, Oct. 17, 2010

Hope you all had a great Sunday. Mine was. I was lazy all day and even took a nap (Short sleep). I did so much ironing last week I didn’t need to this weekend.
My family and I went to see the new Tom Cruise movie Night and Day at Saty near Tobu Nerima station. It was great. Lots of action but funny too. I recommend it. (Many students say “he recommend me to see it”. That is very bad. Say “He recommended the movie to me”.
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EASY TO CONFUSE WORDS:
Petals vs pedals This was a surprise for me. It is so easy to see that I did not think of them. Petals are the parts of the whole cherry blossom and they fall like snow. Pedals are what we put or feet on when riding a bicycle.

Topic vs Toxic Topic is the subject we are talking about. “The topic of my blog is Words that are easy to Confuse.” Toxic means poison. “It is toxic to humans.”
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Thanks for telling your friends about my Blog. Email classes are doing well.

Oh yeah, I have a small warning for you travelers. Do not buy t-shirts from little places in bad areas of any town that has English words on them unless you understand the English exactly, 100%. Too many times the English will be strange or use bad words. I see that around Tokyo very often and I am sure the wearer doesn’t understand how bad the words are.
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Quotes I like.
“Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”– Mary Kay Ash

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” — Joan Baez

Remember, free lesson to first student to explain them.
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Several students have been having trouble with the use of Except and Accept recently. I printed this before but here it is again.
Judging whether to use “accept” or “except” in written grammar can be tricky (difficult and complicated). I’ve outlined the difference between the two words and some tools and tricks to remember how to pick which one to use if you get stuck!
I found this good explanation online.
ACCEPT

Accept is a verb that means “to receive, admit, regard as true, say yes.”

HERE ARE SOME SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

She can’t accept this offer.

Jane was accepted to all but one of the Universities she applied to.

Did you accept the Christmas present Jason gave you?

EXCEPT

Except is a preposition that means “excluding.”

HERE ARE SOME SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

Everyone except me was invited to the party.

Bill knows everyone in the office except the new guy.

Hope this helps. Have a great Monday and I hope it isn’t blue.

Take care,

Randy Miller

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