Books with author Katherine Vaz

It is London 1665, a year fraught with strange and unearthly events. Comets fly low in the sky while merchants clamor for war. Eleven year old Erasmus T. Muddiman attends St Paul’s School with his younger brother. He enjoys Latin but hates to create Latin verses, preferring the new sciences as seen at the Royal Society. He plays football with the lads in Paul’s Yard, shimmies up the drainpipe outside his bedchamber window and he saves his brother, Desiderius, from all sorts of scrapes. Soon, Erasmus cannot avoid the rumors of war. Men and boys are pressganged, taken to ships or the dockyards. Plague enters the city. As school fellows disappear, Erasmus and his family meet a terrible fate of survival. Who will live and who will die? Review Bloody Good Stuff !!!! I found everything fitted admirably in place and the sequence wonderful. A work to be proud of, Kev Richardson, Historian

In Spanish, passive “se” can be used to form passive voice without a helping verb. This is quite different from German, conjugated “werden” and “sein” are used with the past participle, pp, to form passive voice. Processual passive emphasizes the action itself - what is happening, and who or what caused the action is unimportant. Statal passive is used to describe the condition after an action. Past participle, pp is also used with conjugated helping verb of “HABEN” and “SEIN” to form perfect tense.

Unlike Spanish, German has a unique way of forming future tense. German Dative verbs are relatively difficult for foreigners. Reflexive Spanish verb may not necessarily translated as reflexive German verb. Since it is presented in 3 language parallel format for each set of illustrated example , it is easier to learn the other two languages if you know one of them.

VERB + A, DEEight formulas are created for stitching technique by using prepositions to “stitch” words together and to make it grammatically correct in Spanish. Infinitives are extensively used in the formulas as objects of preposition. It is not unusual to see different prepositions used with certain conjugated verbs. Looking for one absolute choice is not pragmatic under the circumstances. However we should still be careful in the selection of the correct choice so that we will not speak Chinese Spanish or English Spanish.

We can use the conjugated helping verb of “haber” plus past participle to form various perfect tense. The most often used verbs with PP are “estar” and “ser”, resembling the passive voice construction in English. However, “PP” can be an adjective following a noun, or used independently. The past participle can also immediately follow certain other conjugated verbs. Gerund can be used to make compound verb to form present or past progressive tense. They can also follow other conjugated verbs, such as verb of perception. Participial phrase is formed by a Gerund or PP. Spanish verb of becoming is a very common expression, and useful to show changes in emotion. The most common way in Spanish to express “to begin, or to start” is also included in this book.

VERB + A, DEEight formulas are created for stitching technique by using prepositions to “stitch” words together and to make it grammatically correct in Spanish. Infinitives are extensively used in the formulas as objects of preposition. It is not unusual to see different prepositions used with certain conjugated verbs. Looking for one absolute choice is not pragmatic under the circumstances. However we should still be careful in the selection of the correct choice so that we will not speak Chinese Spanish or English Spanish.

VERB + EN, PARA, POR, CONEight formulas are created for stitching technique by using prepositions to “stitch” words together and to make it grammatically correct in Spanish. Infinitives are extensively used in the formulas as objects of preposition. It is not unusual to see different prepositions used with certain conjugated verbs. Looking for one absolute choice is not pragmatic under the circumstances. However we should still be careful in the selection of the correct choice so that we will not speak Chinese Spanish or English Spanish.