Saturday, March 31, 2012

Lesson 5 complete

1. There are 31 dictionaries with entries for the word habeas corpus. 
2. The purpose of the links is to allow quick access to sites that have a dictionary function. On the Guide to Writing and Grammar, the song "my favorite things" is used to illustrate nouns.
3. There are 14 examples of boats and ships given on the Visual English Dictionary link.
4. There are 18 titles offered in the English Language Reference category.
5. The options available to process the information on the results screen are to reorder the results alphabetically or to refine by book.
6. The quote from John Locke is: "[That] ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." Using browse this subject under the Quotations link gives various definitions of the word along with which books have quotations using the specific definition.
7. A search for Syria in Maps & Illustrations results in a list of only three illustrations.
8. According to the introduction for AGuide to Countries of the World, what is the purpose of this source is to provide a brief history and contemporary outline rather than World Encyclopedia's  historical account.
9. 




I am so glad the blog saved this draft. I was working on exercise 9 when I lost internet connection, I don't have time to do it again.

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