My Bizarre Studies

What happens when you start to see strange signs that look like these, (>,<, ≥, ≤)? You start to wonder if you are reading the equations upside down, or if your brain just suddenly crashed. Don’t worry, you’re absolutely fine (unless your psychologist says otherwise). What this means is that there is is a certain point within this alternate reality where the balance between the two dimensions is no longer considered to be 100% equal to where you are.

If your reality suddenly shifted from a perfectly equal balance to (x - 5 > 8), your job is to try and find a way to simplify the inequality between worlds as much as possible so as not to destroy both realities altogether.

1. x - 5 > 8 | To eliminate a possible threat to the reality, duplicate every action you do on both sides.
2. x - 5 + 5 > 8 + 5 | You have now eliminated the threat by doing this as an attempt to balance both realities
3. x > 13 | This is your answer. You now know that you (x), are in a dimension greater than (13) realities away from your original reality.

|NOTE| Remember that it is tradition to write the solution (x variable) to any inequality on the left side of the equation.

So, where to start? Imagine you are looking at your reflection in a mirror; it is still you, just on the opposite side. Now, if you are the variable (x) in the equation (4x + 6 = 2x + 4). You are now on both sides of the mirror, but you only want to to be on one side. So how exactly do you get there? Thankfully you are taking the easy  path to the other side of the mirror, so there are no trolls waiting under bridges to give you a riddle. Well, not yes anyway…

1.  4x + 6 = 2x + 4 | Now you move you (x) so that you are one side of the mirror.
2. 4x - 2x = 4 - 6 | Now that you’re on the correct side of the mirror, we sort out the things which are still fuzzy between dimensions. Don’t freak out! I am just easing you into a new term we will be using.
3. 2x = -2 | Use the mirror effect to divide each side by (2) rather than multiply.
4. 2x/2 = -2/2
5. x = -1

Happy, sad, angry, neutral, and commanding. Just like people, English can be dramatic. Expressing emotion through punctuation, tone, sentence structure, and word choice are all the icky things that go along with the creative part of writing. Expressing yourself, however, is a basic part of human nature which we are all a part of on and off of paper.

Exclamatory Sentence: Exclamatory sentences use exclamation points! This means that the narrator is expressing excitement or anger.

Joey: Well, you said I had to give you the chair. You didn't say anything about the cushions.
Chandler: The cushions are the essence of the chair!
Joey: That's right! I'm taking the essence.

Kramer: This pirate trend that she's come up with, Jerry, this is gonna be the new look for the '90s. You're gonna be the first pirate!
Jerry: But I don't want to be a pirate!

Interrogative Eentence: The dark room with terrible lighting you see in every detective show in television is the perfect example. What do you do in an interrogation room? You interrogate people by asking questions.

Shawn Spencer: Good morning, detectives! Collecting donations for the Policeman's Ball?
Carlton Lassiter: We don't have balls.
Shawn Spencer: I honestly have no response for that.
Carlton Lassiter: Need I remind you, Mr. Spencer, what happens when you interfere with a police investigation?
Shawn Spencer: Uhhh... The case gets solved?

Imperative Sentence: Command and demand. These sentences will usually have an authoritative tone which the narrator uses to demand for the reader, or characters to do something. You will find that most of these will usually end with periods, although it is not uncommon to find one ending with an exclamation point.

Sherlock: Anderson, don't talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street.

Declarative Sentence: These sentences are expressed as a statement. The narrator uses this when they are stating something or declaring something. Most of these sentences you will find end with a period.

Sheldon: I made tea.
Leonard: I don't want tea.
Sheldon: I didn't make tea for you. This is my tea.
Leonard: Then why are you telling me?
Sheldon: It's a conversation starter.
Leonard: That's a lousy conversation starter.
Sheldon: Oh, is it? We're conversing. Checkmate.

1. 2x-4=8 | We start by isolating the variable
2. 2x=8+4 | since we moved the (-4) to the other side of the mirror it is now positive (+4)
3. 2x=12 add the (8+4) and you have (12), now continue with the mirror concept
4. 2x/2 = 12/2 because the (2) is being multiplied by (x) we use the mirror effect to do the opposite and divide by (2) rather than multiply.
5. x=6 now we have our answer for (x) and can plug it into the equation.

We have all been through this question at one point or another. Do we say me or I when speaking? This is something I have always been confused about ever since I was young, but the major problem with this is that when the teacher tells us without actually explaining what is correct, we suffer through years of writing all the way through high school trying to figure it out. Honestly, I believe this needs to be learned at a young age somewhere around the same time when you're learning what verbs and nouns are.

I, he, she, and we will always be used before the verb.
|EXAMPLE| Rory and I are going to buy coffee at Luke’s.
In this example, going is the verb, so it would be Rory and I not Rory and me.

Me, you, him, and her will always be used after the verb.
|EXAMPLE| I think Ross just found out about me and Monica.
Ross found out. What did he find out about? About me and Monica, not Monica and I because the verb (found) comes before the subject.

|NOTE| Myself is hardly ever used and CANNOT be used as a replacement for I or me.

|EXAMPLE| 
I myself finished all of the work.
I completed the last of the group project by myself.

|EXAMPLE| Who do you think stole the car?
We use who because the question can be answered with he or she. I believe he stole the car?

Whom can be answered with him, her, or them.
|EXAMPLE| Whom is that present for?
We use whom because the question can be answered with him or her. The present is for her.