Pronunciation of the English word great.
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1. | The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather. | |
2. | My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a bricklayer and died in seventeen seventy-four, at the age of forty. | |
3. | My grandmother's mother is my "great grandmother," so my great grandmother's mother is my "great great grandmother"? Is that right? | |
4. | No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort. | |
5. | Tom's great-great-great grandmother lived in Scotland. | |
6. | Even though great men flatter themselves with their great accomplishments, they're rarely the result of great planning, but more often of mere chance. | |
7. | Tom was my great-great-great-grandfather. | |
8. | My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have. | |
9. | Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. | |
10. | Who will be the first to live until the birth of his great-great-great-grandson? |