INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Mix together Epsom salt and sea salt, then add dried rose petals and rose oil. Use these bath salts to turn a normal bath into a fragrant, skin softening experience.  Stir together 1 cup (240 ml) Epsom salt and ¼ cup (60 ml) sea salt. Crush a handful of dried rose petals and mix into the salts. Stir in a few drops of rose oil. Scoop bath salts into a thin cotton bag and tie the top. Add the bag to your tub as it is filling with water. Mix together honey and rose petals to make a scented sweetener for your tea or fruit salad. Use honey with a mild flavor so it doesn't compete with the rose.  Stir together 1 cup (240 ml) of a light-flavored honey and 1-2 tablespoons (15-30 ml) of dried rose petals. Cover and let sit for five days or up to a week. The longer it sits, the stronger the flavor will be. Strain out the rose petals and use the honey as usual. Mix together seven ounces (200 grams) of dried rose petals and 1¼  pounds (570 grams) of tea. Use a good quality tea, such as oolong. Store in an airtight, opaque container, and prepare according to the instructions for the tea.

SUMMARY: Make soothing bath salts. Create a rose scented honey. Make rose scented tea.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Gradually seeing the person less often might be happening naturally, or you might need to consciously apply these steps. This is a good way to let someone know you don't want to be friends without verbally explaining it to them.  This method is appropriate for casual friends who you don't really know very well. If the person is a new friend, this method is less leaving a friendship than it's simply an acknowledgment that you never really became friends. It might take a longer time to leave a friendship this way. One way that you can start to minimize contact with the person is by declining invitations to do things. This may require you to tell a little white lie now and then to get out of something. For example, if the person asks if you want to go see a movie sometime over the weekend, then you might say something like “That sounds cool, but I already have a ton going on this weekend, so I really can’t.” You may bump into the person while you are trying to build distance between the two of you, so you will need to know how to deal with those situations. Ignoring the person could lead to hurt feelings and awkwardness, so instead try to give polite excuses for why you can’t stay and talk.  For example, you could politely say hello to the person and then say something like, “Sorry I can’t stay and chat. I am already running late. Maybe some other time!” Try to be as polite and considerate as possible. Even if you do not want to be friends with the person anymore, you never know when you might bump into each other again and keeping things civil will reduce the chance of an awkward run-in. If your attempts to politely and gradually end the friendship do not help, then you can also try telling the person that you don't want to be friends anymore. You may just have to be direct and say something like, “You are a great person, but we are just too different. I wish you all the best, but I think we should stop spending so much time together.” Try to avoid the strategy called “ghosting.” Ghosting is when you cut off all contact with the person. For example, you would need to ignore the person’s texts and emails, stop returning phone calls, and unfriend the person on social media. Ghosting can lead to hurt feelings, anger, and concerns about your well-being, so it is not ideal.

SUMMARY: Use the "fade out" method. Decline invitations from the person. Excuse yourself from conversations. Take a more active approach to ending the friendship.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Verbs show action or indicate a state of being. As in other languages, verbs need to be conjugated to match the number of people performing them. You'll also need to put verbs in past, present, or future tense to indicate the time in which the action was performed. For example:  In the sentence, “I thought I locked the gate,” thought and locked are both past-tense verbs. In the sentence, "I want to open the door," want and open are both present-tense verbs. In the sentence, "The girls admit they lied," admit is in its plural form. Were you only talking about 1 girl, you would say, "The girl admits that she lied." An adverb describes an action or an adjective (or another adverb in some cases). Adverbs show when, to what extent, and how a specific action was performed. Most, but not all adverbs end with “-ly.” Examples of adverbs include:  How: “Sam quickly ate his lunch,” or “Bertram moodily shaved his mustache.” To what extent: “Jennie did her homework excellently,” or “The cat was very furry.” When: “Tom went to his lessons weekly,” or “Adele never cut her hair.” The “-ly” ending is usually used for adverbs that derive from adjectives (such as “hungrily” from “hungry” or “gently” from “gentle”). Adverbs that do not follow this form include “too,” “very,” “never,” and “often.” You can use adjectives to modify nouns and, occasionally, pronouns. These words answer questions about nouns like: what kind? which one? how many? Examples of adjectives include:  You are a great person. The tall man was late for the meeting. Her smelly cat ruined the house party. The iguana is a terrible pet. Your mother is a kind woman. When adjectives are used to modify pronouns, they usually need a helping verb such as is and are. For example, “They are interesting,” or “He is tall.” In rare cases, adjective forms can be used to modify another adjective (a job that is typically done by adverbs). For example, “He drove a bright red car.” Determiners are a special form of adjective that are used to provide information about nouns, such as specificity, number, and distance from the speaker. For example, if you want to indicate specificity, use a definite or indefinite article. You would use the definite article “the” when you're referring to 1 particular example of a specific noun (e.g., “the book”). Use “a” if you're referring to any example of a that kind of noun (“a book”). The most common types of determiners include:  The definite article the (singular or plural) and the indefinite articles a or an (singular) or some (plural). These articles show whether the noun they modify is specific or general. For example, “The [specific] man wanted some [general] apples.” The demonstrative adjectives, which indicate both specificity and proximity to the speaker. This (singular) and these (plural) refer to specific nouns that are close to the speaker. That (singular) and those (plural) suggest a little more distance. For example: “Put these [specific, close] books with those [specific, more distant] papers over there.” Numbers are also a form of determiner, which can specify the quantity of a noun. For example, “I have twenty-three cats in my bedroom!”

SUMMARY:
Deploy verbs to show that an action is being performed. Use adverbs to modify a verb in a sentence. Insert adjectives to modify and add information to nouns. Use articles and other determiners to introduce and define nouns.