Link for Academic Phrasebank

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introductions.htm

Frequently used phrases for academic essays

Questions come up while studying English

Feb 17th, 2014

What does 'second opinion' mean?

I figured I had about a week and a half left or exchanging leftover baht and rupees before I completely ran out of cash, and the only way to get money from my parents was to return to the never-ending circuit of second opinions. 

** second opinion
is a visit to a physician other than the one a patient has previously been seeing in order to get more information or to hear a different point of view.

notes about random stuff

Living here in the U.S., I try to copy down sentences from my daily conversation with others to learn English. The sentences that I write are usually the ones that are not difficult but hard to think of as a foreigner. 


This is my first time in a while.
This doesn't count. 
What kind of service is that?
"Hey, don't seem so surprised."
There's not much traffic. 
It was never like that before. 
It depends on how much you buy there.



Stir our love for You.
Increase our enjoyment of You. 

That's what He is after.  

What struck me was ...  

We gotta go beyond that. 
We can get stuck, and we still have those things. 
What do we need? More appearing. Otherwise we can't go on.

We are making the prayer back to Him. 
We react to God, and God reacts to us; back and forth reaction process
Sometimes, Lord makes things too easy.
Lord put you there. 

He's gone through all the process to become a transfigured seed today.