Blog: Language Forms

'Take the time to connect with nature.'

• Very short sentences

• Questions

• Imperative verbs

• Second person pronouns.

You never truly appreciates these things until they're gone.

• Imperative verbs

• Very short sentences

• Quotation maks

• Second person pronoun.

I've been writing a blog in which I'm trying to get across what I would've done differently but I can't remember all the facts.

• Quotation marks

• Second person pronouns

• Contractions

• Questions

Do you know what I miss the most? The weather.

• Imperative verbs

• Quotation marks

• Idiomatic Expressions

• Questions/Very Short sentences.

We use questions in a blog to...

• engage and involve the reader.

• to make the blog intellectually challenging.

• to conduct a survey.

• to measure the reader's enjoyment of the blog.

As John Donne famously averred, 'No man is an island'. Even a hermit sat in a chapel in the back of beyond is somehow connected to other people...

• Quotation

• Contractions

• Questions

• Very short sentences.

I think naturalist John Muir somehow had it right when he said how, 'the clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness'.

• idiomatic expressions

• quotations

• questions

• imperative verbs

There is nothing like nature to lose yourself in because like Wordsworth said, 'the world is too much with us'. These are Lord Byron's 'pathless woods', and an escape route.

• imperative verbs

• very short sentences

• questions

• quotations

We use quotations in a blog to...

• add credibility and make arguments stronger.

• impress the reader with how much we have read.

• distract the reader from the main argument of the blog.

• break up the monotony of the text.

People travel the world and get paid for it, so I guess that these days a rolling stone does gather moss!

• very short sentences

• imperative verbs

• second person pronouns

• idiomatic expressions

Answer explanation

'A rolling stone gathers no moss' means that to accumulate wealth, you must stay in the same place.