My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.

Because the CES-D items are ordinal in nature (i.e., in our case a four-point response scale, and hence not continuous), a polychoric covariance matrix was used as input for the analyses.

He had a bad speech impediment.

Agriculture does not require chariots to the degree of cattle nomadism, moreover fields, pastures, or springs are better defensible on horseback in an area too hilly and rugged, horseable perhaps, but without chariots.