The phrase "a sort of activities" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when describing a category or type of activities that are somewhat similar but not identical.
Example: "The event will include a sort of activities that promote teamwork and collaboration among participants."
Alternatives: "a type of activities" or "a variety of activities".
This will include not only bringing about physical changes (say, digging a hole in the earth) but also perceiving things (perceiving is a sort of activity with respect to the thing perceived) and thinking about them.
My older son's LeapPad, a sort of electronic activity book, had saved us on a couple of long drives on previous summer vacations, especially after I discovered it had a jack for headphones.
It's fun stuff, relentless and demanding, and doing a very good job of providing the sort of tense Horde mode action we've been enjoying since Gears of War 2. And for Bungie, it's there to provide a sort of transitional activity for intermediate players.
What I will take away from Oldstone-Moore's book is an argument not stated outright in the text but nevertheless contained within it: that beards are something people like to chatter about and legislate over as a sort of displacement activity when they find it too awkward or confusing to address the issues that actually matter.
[Noises off. Oliver offers Penny a crust of bread.] WEINERT-KENDT My question as a parent is how this compares to a Music Together class or the like — a sort of ritual activity where kids play along and presumably take away something after a period of weeks.
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Perhaps the most significant is that the state will treat weed like a crop and not, as in Colorado's case, as a sort of industrial activity.
They believed that having individual and social moralities is a sort of spiritual activity.
The Friars stayed put, refining the annual roast to piquantly obscene outrage, like the fabled but not really all that funny "Aristocrats" joke, which varies but frequently involves a family and all sorts of activities not normally referred to in a section devoted to real estate, but was, unsurprisingly, told at a sendup of Hugh Hefner in 2001.
Stifled, isolated and forbidden any sort of activity, her illness curdles into full-blown madness.
Normally the plaque coexists in the oral cavity in a sort of balance between activities of the microorganisms and host defenses.
