"أخذ [روبرت سمرفيل] جملة طويلة نوعًا ما وكسرها إلى مكوناتها ، باستخدام ألوان مختلفة من الحبر: الأسود والأحمر والأزرق والأخضر. الموضوع ، المسند ، الإضافة ؛ الجمل الثانوية والشرطية ، ربط وتقسيم النقابات! لكل منها لونها الخاص ، مجموعتها الخاصة. كان الأمر مثل التدريب ، وقمنا بذلك يوميًا تقريبًا ".
"من المستحيل كتابة صفحة حتى لا تجرب ملذات ثراء اللغة الإنجليزية وتنوعها وتنقلها وعمقها".
The hour arrived. I sat in the corner seat above the gangway, immediately behind the Ministers, the same seat from which my father had made his speech of resignation and his terrible Piggott attack. On my left, a friendly counsellor, sat the long-experienced Parliamentarian, Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles. Towards nine o'clock the House began to fill. Mr. Lloyd George spoke from the third bench below the gangway on the Opposition side, surrounded by a handful of Welshmen and Radicals, and backed by the Irish Nationalist party. He announced forthwith that he did not intend to move his amendment, but would instead speak on the main question. Encouraged by the cheers of the 'Celtic fringes' he soon became animated and even violent. I constructed in succession sentence after sentence to hook on with after he should sit down. Each of these poor couplings became in turn obsolete. A sense of alarm and even despair crept across me. I repressed it with an inward gasp. Then Mr. Bowles whispered 'You might say «instead of making his violent speech without moving his moderate amendment, he had better have moved his moderate amendment without making his violent speech.»' Manna in the wilderness was not more welcome! It fell only just in time. To my surprise I heard my opponent saying that he 'would curtail his remarks as he was sure the House wished to hear a new member', and with this graceful gesture he suddenly resumed his seat.***. , , . , . . , , . , , . « », . , , . . , , , . : « : „ , “». . , , , , « , , , », , , .
على سبيل المثال ، فإن متوسط مفردات الشخص الذي يدرس اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية وهو في المستوى المتقدم هو في المتوسط 4000-7000 كلمة.متحدث أصلي مع التعليم العالي لديه احتياطي من 20000 إلى 30.000 كلمة. أي حوالي 5 مرات أكثر. والفرق بين تشرشل والطالب المتقدم يصل إلى 10 مرات!