Gear Vegetable English!!! Helping my son with his 5th grade homework..Help!?
Directions:
Underline the verbs and verb phrases in each paragraph. Circle the verb phrase that expresses the wrong time. Write the correct verb phrase on the line.
1. We are eating more fruits and vegetables these days. For example, for lunch I am having a veggie burger. It smells great. Cheese was melting on the top of it now.
2. Last week we drove to a state park. Dad had been studying forest plants. He had brought along his plant identification book. Soon we all are looking for ferns. Boobie yelled. He had fallen in a stream!
3. This winter our family will visit a coral reef. Shelly may test her scuba gear. I will snorkel in the clear ocean water. We did marvel at the colorful fish and coral formations.
4. I am teaching the dog a trick. She loves her treats. She is getting a treat for her trick. She sits at the mere sight of the box. Was she learning? What do you think?
Can someone please help me understand this four problems. Please?!?!
1. Cheese was melting on the top of it now. Should be "cheese IS melting on top of it now"
2. Soon we all are looking for ferns. Should be "soon we all WERE looking for ferns"
3. We did marvel at the colorful fish and coral formations. Should be " we WILL marvel at the colorful fish and coral formations"
4. Was she learning? Should be "IS she learning?"
These are tense problems. Just make sure that all of your sentences agree in tense, past present or future.
Top Gear - Vegetable oil for your volvo diesel - BBC
Lube for stationary exercise bike?
I have a stationary bike and it recently started squeaking so i used vegetable oil on the "gears"
im not really sure how to describe it but when i used the bike it started heating up and it made the room smell like someone fried something in there. Which is the best lube to use and where should i buy it?
oh yeah it has a flywheel
Read the manual. Vegetable oil will gum things up and is a poor lubricant. It's hard to give any advice because exercise bikes are different.
Lists can be helpful. Keep track of every cent your family spends for 1 month, perhaps 2 months. Look to see if there is a pattern of impulse spending here and there. Things like that can add up and yet be hidden.
Examine your record and see if costs can be cut or adjusted. You both need to be trying to cut costs or it won't work very well.
Plan out and simplify your holiday spending and stick to the plan. Can you give fewer gifts? If not, where can you cut down the amount you spend. Family gifts instead of individual? Give certificate for baby-sitting or 2 hours of cleaning help or car-wash, etc(and you will do the work)?
Talk over the cost cutting with family. Many of them are trying to cut costs, too. If you entertain, can you cut down on alcohol and switch to the less expensive tea or coffee?
Switch from chips to popcorn.
Play games or work puzzles instead of renting half a dozen movies
Clean with baking soda, vinegar, water where you can instead of more expensive cleaning products.
Use damp dustcloth instead of expensive wipes.
Talk to some old folks who lived during the Great Depression and see how they managed? They will probably be late 70s or older, but they know things.
In order to save on food costs, buying in bulk is a preferred way, but in the case of just two people it would not be cost effective. But the other extreme of eating in restaurants can be extremely costly. Invest in some books that I know are available for cooking for two. The other large rat hole people throw their money down, is buying new clothes. Shopping thrift stores can be very satisfying.
9:13 am on September 15th, 2010
no you idiot it only works on diesel cars
3:53 pm on September 17th, 2010
Lists can be helpful. Keep track of every cent your family spends for 1 month, perhaps 2 months. Look to see if there is a pattern of impulse spending here and there. Things like that can add up and yet be hidden.
Examine your record and see if costs can be cut or adjusted. You both need to be trying to cut costs or it won't work very well.
Plan out and simplify your holiday spending and stick to the plan. Can you give fewer gifts? If not, where can you cut down the amount you spend. Family gifts instead of individual? Give certificate for baby-sitting or 2 hours of cleaning help or car-wash, etc(and you will do the work)?
Talk over the cost cutting with family. Many of them are trying to cut costs, too. If you entertain, can you cut down on alcohol and switch to the less expensive tea or coffee?
Switch from chips to popcorn.
Play games or work puzzles instead of renting half a dozen movies
Clean with baking soda, vinegar, water where you can instead of more expensive cleaning products.
Use damp dustcloth instead of expensive wipes.
Talk to some old folks who lived during the Great Depression and see how they managed? They will probably be late 70s or older, but they know things.
11:53 pm on September 24th, 2010
In order to save on food costs, buying in bulk is a preferred way, but in the case of just two people it would not be cost effective. But the other extreme of eating in restaurants can be extremely costly. Invest in some books that I know are available for cooking for two. The other large rat hole people throw their money down, is buying new clothes. Shopping thrift stores can be very satisfying.