take/takes, archaic English If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. That was a citation from The King James Bible. Why on Earth "if he take"??? Why not "if he takes"?

Eine E-mail über einen Unfall Lieber Ralf, Vielen Dank für deine E-mail. Mir geht es jetzt viel besser. Danke für die Frage. Ja, ich war eine Woche im Krankenhaus, aber die Krankenschwestern waren sehr nett und meine Familie besuchte mir jeden Tag. Also die Zeit laute sehr schnell für mich. Ich bin seit vorgestern wieder zu Hause. Also, wie ist es passiert: Ich ging einmal nach Hause aus die Schule und dann, stell dir vor! Ich sah ein Mädchen, dass geraubt würde. Der Angreifer war größer als ich, aber trotzdem wollte ich ihm helfen. Ich sprang vor, zielte und stieß. Mein Feind aber stieß zurück, traf mein Kopf und ich erinnere mich nichts mehr. Die Polizei sagen, dass das Mädchen wegzulaufen schuf. Es hat auch die Polizei und das Krankenwagen gerufen. Es besuchte mir einmal im Krankenhaus. Die Weile war sehr rührend. Danke für deine Einladung, es ist ja eine schöne Idee. Kann ich am 22. Juli kommen und bis zum 1. August bleiben? Dass ist für mich am günstigsten. Bitte schreib bald zurück, bis bald, Šimon

Report on sports facilities in our town In my survey, I have inquired the local inhabitants about the current sports facilities in our town. I have questioned people of various age categories and devised a solution by assessing the popular opinion. The first topic surveyed was the overall popularity of various sports. People were asked which sports they preferred and how often they were doing their sports. The by far most popular sport is football, with incredible 7% of people questioned confirming that they do this sport at least once a week. The runner-up is volleyball with the respectable 4% and the third ranked tennis with 3,5%. Some other popular sports include basketball (2%), floorball (1,2%) and baseball (1%). In total, 39% of people interviewed do some sport at least once a week. Shockingly, only 38% of the physically active are satisfied with the current state of our facilities. To put things into perspective, 59% of people who took the survey, i.e., 1839 citizens, have a very negative opinion of the town facilities. Moreover, the most highlighted faults are: insufficient upkeep of the facility (68%), no benches to sit on (21%) and unfriendly staff (7%). The most inquisitous facility on the list is the baseball stadium. 54% people replied that they are afraid to enter the tribunes in fear of them collapsing down all of a sudden. In general, the results of my research are very negative and some steps really need to be taken in order to improve the quality of our facilities. We should consider building a proper football field considering the incredible demand for it. We should also reconstruct the tribunes of our aging baseball stadium asap. More staff should be hired to look after the facilities and some benches should be installed to the volleyball field.

Is this sentence correct? I am the sheriff here. Nobody is going to question my orders! Now listen Jack, what you've done is unforgivable. Weren't it for me laying down the law every time, you would be in jail by now.

I am very perplexed by the following sentence: "Here's some really nice cheese that I don't think you will have tasted before." Could anyone explain to me the grammar of this? What kind of tense is this?

The growth of cities: Present and future consequences A shift from the coutryside into larger dwellings can well be observed ever since the rise of mankind. City migration has always been a phenomena associated with a wide range of causes, being it a search for employment or seeking of a better fortune in general. The influx of workforce has always kept the metropolis going and was often fueling the city growth as well. It is then to be observed, that cities waxed through economy and economy was the fertiliser of the city soil. This persistent proces sped up enormously at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and has not ceased hitherto. The proces not changing much itself, its playground has undergone a complete metamoprhosis. Not anymore is centralisation of economy, culture and most of the important factors in general a question of a mere region. We can already well observe great aglomerations emerging from hundreds of cities. What used to be a day worth of travell distance between two cities is now merrely a gap easily overcomed by an automobile. Living in a rural area in The Netherlands might be considered more urban than in a centre of an East European city. Sure, the surroundings might seem a bit more urban, but are the aforementioned aspects present as well? It is almost unimaginable that a person from Minsk might have acces to commodities and the job market of Swansea. We can see the effects of it already – the new „rural“ areas (sometimes whole countries) are often in an economical stagnation. The rural areas of rural areas (such as the country far from a city in a poorer state) are practically in an advanced state of decomposition – South Bohemian region being a good example. People are often migrating to more populated areas contributing to the centralisation yet again. If this trend continues, will we once see a huge world-city sucking up smaller comunities as a large blackhole?