Complex Subject

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http://englishstandarts.blogspot.ru/2013/01/infinitive-complex-subject.html

Do exercises on Complex Subject:

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British Folk Music

British Folk Songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuxq_J1VuA&list=PL465927905C5D8099

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British Folk Songs

go on the stage vs. go on stage

To go on the stage means to become an actor.

Example: At the age of ten, he decided that he wanted to go on the stage.

To go on stage means to perform for the audience.

Example: From the moment he went on stage the audience folded up in their seats.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/go-on-the-stage

ABBY Lingvo

Dress rehearsal

1) The dress rehearsal of a play, opera, or show is the final rehearsal before it is performed, in which the performers wear their costumes and the lights and scenery are all used as they will be in the performance.

2) You can describe an event as a dress rehearsal for a later, more important event when it indicates how the later event will be.

Example: These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.

ABBY Lingvo

Waiting in the wings

If someone or something is waiting in the wings, they are not yet active or important, but are ready or likely to be so soon.

For example:

The team has several talented young players waiting in the wings.

Some police were in the wings in case of trouble at the rally.

There are at least a dozen young managers waiting in the wings for Harold to retire. 

This expression alludes to the theatre, where a player waits in the wings or backstage area, unseen by the audience, for his or her turn to come on stage.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/wait-in-the-wings

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/in+the+wings