The Waste Land Epigraph Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo. [I have seen with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a jar, and when the boys asked her “What do you want?” She answered, “I want to die.”] —Petronius, Satyricon Myths and Comments Cumaean Sibyl was the most famous of the Sibyls, the prophetic old women of Greek mythology; she guided Aeneas through Hades in the Aeneid. She had been granted immortality by Apollo, but because she forgot to ask for perpetual youth, she shrank into withered old age and her authority declined.] Let’s Check our Knowledge Who is the narrator of the epigraph? Ans: Encolpious, He quotes Trimalchios boast Who had become the shrunken insect? Ans. Cumaean Sibyl What did she deliver from the cave? Ans. Aeneid (The gatekeeper of the hell) and Oracles. Q. What do you know about Sybil? Old woman Sybil is hanged upside down and...
Present Simple Tense Affirmative Sentences Video Present Simple Tense Affirmative Sentences Subject + V-1/V-1(s, es, ies) + Object/Adj. 1st Person : I, We 2nd Peerson: You Third Person: He, She. It. Ram, Sita, Students,People They V-1 (s, es, ies): 3rd Person and Singular He writes a Letter. They write a letter. Do/ Does +not +V-1 He does not write a letter. I do not write a letter. 1. They wish to speak to you. (He) He wishes to speak to you. 2. Buses pass my nouse every hour. Bus passes my house every hour. 3. They help their father. (He) 4.We change planes at Heathrow. She changes planes at heathrow. 5. You watch to much TV. (He) 6. They worry to much. (He) worries 7. I cash a cheque every month. (He) cashes 8. I always carry an umbrella. (She) always carries 9. They wash the floor every week. (She) washes 10. His sons go to the local school. His son goes 11. These hens lay brown eggs. This hen lays……. 12. Rubber balls bounce. Rubber ball bounces 1...