Frustrated, she from her desk and headed out to the tiny balcony. The rain had finally let up . As she looked out over the quiet Madrid streets, she saw an old student, Pablo, struggling to hold up a cardboard box against the wind.
Elena her laptop and turned off the light. She had done it. She had brought about a small revolution, one slippery verb at a time.
“Pablo!” she called down. “Do you need to ?”
Tonight, she was on the last letter: W.
Inside the box were his old notebooks from ten years ago. As they them, Elena gasped. In the margins, Pablo had drawn cartoons to remember phrasal verbs. For to come across , he had drawn a man walking in a forest who suddenly trips over a golden lamp.
She then to her publisher and logged onto a free document-sharing site. Within an hour, the download counter started spinning.
Dr. Elena Márquez stared at the blinking cursor on her laptop. For two years, she had been trapped in a labyrinth of words. Her project: The Ultimate Phrasal Verbs Dictionary: English to Spanish (PDF Edition) .
