Richard has Apollo and Ithemba help him carry his wife’s half of the bed from the bedroom to the guest room, which now sleeps three.ĭetlef and Sylvia say that the guest house in their garden has a small wood stove, so if the men don’t mind having to keep the fire going. (Richard found two air mattresses in the shed, and for the other men he’s piled several layers of blankets on the floor.) Two men can fit at right angles to each other on the living room sofa, one more on two upholstered chairs pushed together. In the music room, one man can sleep under the piano, and another to the side of it: that’s two more spots. The first time tears emerged during my reading of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, was at the end of the book on one of the last pages when she describes, almost in list form, how 147 of 476 of African refugees who were about to be forced against their will to leave Berlin found a temporary place to sleep in the homes, shops or summer sheds of German citizens who had been moved enough by the inhuman aspects of the “ironclad laws” to temporarily push a few pieces of furniture aside and make some space.įour men can sleep here now on the burgundy-colored Persian rug. And if I don’t take action, certain processes, even the most devastating ones, will take their course, not because they were meant to take this course, but simply because nobody changed their direction or stopped them. And if I don’t care about it, I won’t take action. And what doesn’t touch my heart or my guts won’t become something I will care about. The number “sixty-five million” doesn’t directly speak to my heart or my guts. But how do I - one - who stares at this number on a flat computer screen, relate to this fact? One can’t picture the number. Never before in history has the number been so high. Sixty-five million people were forced against their will to leave their countries due to wars and famines. The following English irregular verbs are now obsolete and use the standard past and participle forms (-ed).According to the UNHCR mid-year report, in 2016 sixty-five million people became refugees. We do not foresee all the irregular verbs ever being standardized, but some of the more minor variations in less commonly used words will probably disappear in the next genration or two.
The trend, in English, and especially in American English, is to standardize the irregular verbs.
Table of the most common irregular verbs infinitive
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