“He [Robert Somerville] took a rather long sentence and broke it into its components, using different colors of ink: black, red, blue and green. Subject, predicate, addition; subordinate and conditional sentences, connecting and dividing unions! Each had its own color, its own group. It was like training, and we did it almost daily. ”
"It is impossible to write a page in order not to experience the pleasures of the richness, diversity, mobility and depth of the English language."
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.***. , , . , . . , , . , , . « », . , , . . , , , . : « : „ , “». . , , , , « , , , », , , .
For example, the average vocabulary of a person who studies English as a foreign language and is at the Advanced level is on average 4000-7000 words.A native speaker with higher education has a reserve of 20,000-30,000 words. That is, about 5 times more. And the difference between Churchill and the Advanced student is as much as 10 times!