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Kettle Topography Bears: A great terminal moraine, extending from Wakefield to Westerly, with its knob and kettle topography bears evidence of glaciation during the ice age, as do the rolling hills, U-shaped valleys, ponds, lakes, swamps, and slow-flowing streams north and west of it. Block Island, at the entrance to Long Island Sound, is evidence of an earlier moraine.
The Atlantic coastline is 40 miles long. Narragansett Bay extends inland for 28 miles and varies in width from 3 to 12 miles. Dotting its waters are 36 islands, the largest of which, Rhode (Aquidneck) Island, 15 miles long and 1 to 5 miles wide, contains the towns of Portsmouth and Middletown and the city of Newport. Flowing across the state are 13 freshwater rivers with a total length of 148 miles.
Spiders have but two divisions to the body. The head and thorax are fused into one structure called the cephalothorax, which means head and thorax. The forward portion of the cephalothorax bears the eyes, the mouthparts, and the pedipalps; the remainder bears the eight jointed legs. Trie cephalothorax is joined to the abdomen by a stalklike pedicel, which means little foot, and bears no appendages.
GRAMMAR, gram'ar, in its simplest sense, is the study of "how a language works." More specifically, it is the study of those systems and patterns that operate in a language to give meaning to an utterance—such as "The men were chasing the bears"-beyond the meaning of each separate word in its base form. The most obvious examples of such systems are (1) morphology, which governs variations of form—for example, the variation between "man" and "men," "be" and "were," "chase" and "chasing," and "bear" and "bears"— and (2) syntax, which governs variations of order or position—for example, the variation represented by the word order in "The men were chasing the bears" and "The bears were chasing the men." |
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