Well, since Ron ain't goin, why don't you come on and go along with us two, Susie? / Okeh, Susie grinned. Why not?

The step-by-step directions walked me through the assembly, but identifying the parts was still hard.

Trevor was the firm's facilities manager and it was his job to make sure that their office ran like a well-oiled machine and that the partners, attorneys, and staff were comfortable.

Where defined, the first derivative of a monotone function never changes sign, although it may be zero.