Committee for Chemistry suggested to the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1906 to Mendeleev for his discovery of the periodic system. This proposal was approved. But at the full meeting of the Academy one of the members recommended the candidacy of Henri Moissan. Moreover Svante Arrhenius who had influence on the Academy also advised to reject the candidacy of Mendeleev. The contemporaries state that Arrhenius was against Mendeleev because of his critique of Arrheniuss dissociation theory. As a result the candidacy of Mendeleev was rejected.
Dmitri Mendeleev died of influenza in Saint Petersburg in 1907.
Grammar time: Present Simple
Study this example situation:
Alex is the bus driver – this is the present simple tense:
We use the present simple to talk about thinga in general. We are not thinking only about the present. We use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly or that something is true in general. It is not important whether the action is happening at the time of speaking:
The earth goes round the sun.
Nurses look after patients in hospitals.
In Britain most of the shops close at 5. 30 p. m.
Remember that we say he /she/it - s
We use do does to make questions and negative sentences:
Do- I/you/we/they/ - work? I/you/we/they/ - dont work.
Does – he/she/it – work? – he/she/it –doesnt work.
We use the present simple when we say how often we do things:
Note that we say where do you come from?
C) Exercises:
Exercise 2. 1 you have to put the verb into correct form.
Examples: water bolls at 100 degrees centigrade.
George doesnt go to the cinema every day. etc
Exercise 2. 2 This time you have to read some sentences and correct them. The Englis
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