Yup, you can use the word for boys.

The "-age" suffix in english is often used as a "word-forming element in nouns of action, process, function, condition, from Old French and French -age." To store is to place something in (the state of) storage. In use: After the school year, he didn't need his books any more, so he put them in storage for when he might want to look at them again. A refrigerator is a method of cold food storage.

What a lovely quote. More context is important, and it looks like this came from Carly Fiorina's Memoir “Tough Choices”. From Wikipedia: Fiorina “served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive atAT&T.” The context is: “I was always encountering adventures. In England, I went to an all-girls school in London. The whole experience seemed almost like a movie to me, with our uniforms, and out headmistress and our all-girls version of Romeo and Juliet [...] the Channing School for Select Young Ladies.” (p. 7, Penguin 2006) To understand this quote it is useful to know a little about the Memoir genre. In Memoir, authors often recount their upbringing, their childhood and adulthood experiences, and often highlight particular times and experiences in order to tell a larger story which makes sense in a moral, ethical or personal way. In this book, Carly describes a childhood in which many things were learned from her parents and from the places and people she met along the way. She is building her memoir by describing a varied and international background, spent as her family followed her father between academic jobs. To illustrate how her experience in London was special, and give the reader an idea of what it might have meant to grow up in such a place, she writes the quote we are looking at. To answer your question, she is describing how her experience in school has stereotypes, that will be useful in developing her story about her upbringing. These schools are often highly structured, proper environments, and it's funny to look back on the rigidity of one's upbringing once one has become an adult. For instance, every one in the school's administration took the value of acting to be unquestionable as a school activity, but no one knew enough about acting to correct her accent, or were too embarrassed by her American misunderstanding of British culture to correct her.

Most people use them interchangeably, and would have to think about what the difference is. But if you didn't know, using the wrong one might sound weird in some cases. Technically, "for instance" is a more restricted use phrase, used when someone is mentioning a specific example of a general type of thing. I.E. "I have had trouble running more than five miles without hurting my legs, for instance the other day I tried running along the beach, and ended up feeling very sore." "For example" is more general, and is generally used when one is making an example of something. I.E. "I like many sports, for example running and boxing."

Assessment is a word which means "conclusions about something" and that can be something in the past, present, or future. Prediction is a guess about someone in the future (it has the prefix pre- which usually means 'before'). Additionally, assessments are generally seen as more certain, or at least that is their connotation.

Films are sometimes called "motion pictures", so people sometimes call them "pictures" for short.

Perhaps you could point us to the conversation you are asking about? That might help in answering your question.

Our human society has made significant progress with the advent of modern industrialization, however increasing environment pollution has become a major concern. Some believe that it is the responsibility of individuals in society to make lifestyle changes in support of the environment. Personally, I believe that government plays the dominant role in terms of environment preservation. To begin with, the government has the ability to enforce environmental regulations in order to protect and improve the environment, and can be more efficient in doing so than individuals acting separately. For instance: government can prohibit chemical factories from releasing noxious fumes into the air or hazardous substances into the water. Secondly, the government can establish better regulatory law, and implement a system of fines to regulate both individuals and businesses in recycling, which is very important in saving energy and creating less pollution. Paper recycling can save millions of trees. Furthermore, the government can support the media in advertising or publishing instructive information aimed at enhancing the awareness of the public in support of their living a more healthy life. Admittedly, individuals and groups should also share the responsibility of creating a clean and healthy environment by doing many meaningful things like less driving, saving water and electricity, riding bicycles as much as possible and planting more trees. In summary, I would like to restate my view that government plays a crucial role in environmental protection by setting up strict law enforcement, while individuals also play an important role as well. We can only continue to enjoy a quality and healthy life when we have our wonderful homeland with a blue sky, clear water and clean soil.