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Stove cookies
Apartment elevator
Truck gas
Faucet pants
Pharmacy thrift
Sidewalk liquor store
Hall of residence moviehouse
Neighborhood railroad
Just to amuse yourself read this:
What’s Cookin’? I came across a health-food restaurant in Cambridge, Mass.,
with a billboard proclaiming, “Eat here and live a long life!” The barbecue pit
next door posted its response:” Eat here and die happy!”
I believe you’ve grasped the ironical core of the joke above and enjoyed
yourself. Now try to do a very simple exercise which takes you back to the
basics of English Grammar.
Task: supply the plural forms of the nouns in brackets only where necessary.
From prehistory through the present day dumping has been the (means)….. of
disposal favored everywhere, including in the (city)….. . The archaeologist
C.W. Blegen who dug into Bronze Age Troy in the 1950s found that (floor)……
had become so littered that periodically a fresh supply of (dirt)……. or
(clay)……. had been brought in to cover up the (refuse)…… . Of course, after
several (layer)…… had been applied the (door)…… and (roof)……. had to be
adjusted upward.
Have you got interested in the information you’ve just learned? If so, you’re
offered to read and consider the whole text about garbage and how people tried
to make efforts to dispose it through the long history of human society.
GARBAGE
For most of the past two and a half million years human beings left their garbage
where it fell. Oh, they sometimes tidied up their sleeping and activity areas, but
that was about all. This disposal scheme functioned adequately because hunters
and gatherers frequently abandoned their campgrounds to follow game or find
new stands of plants. Man faced his first garbage crisis when he became a
sedentary animal – when, rather than move himself, he chose to move his
garbage. The archaeologist Gordon R. Willey has argued only partly in fun that
Homo sapiens may have been propelled along the path toward civilization by his
need for a class at the bottom of the social hierarchy that could be assigned the
task of dealing with mounting piles of garbage.
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