A
Hong Kong IKEA commercial is driving me crazy. The kid pronounces it
'it-key-ah'. If you want to pronounce it in English, it should rhyme
with "idea"; i.e. 'eye-key-ah'. If you want to pronounce it in Swedish,
it sounds like 'ee-care'.
2010年7月4日星期日
2010年6月18日星期五
Dr Qooble is a Secret Agent!
I pick this pamphlet from my mailbox today. OMG! I must be an old-English teacher because the English here is very odd to me.
Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, usage, or expression, No question too simple? Can you find any verb in this ...er... line? Every sentence must have a verb. A lot of Chinese students have the same mistake - skipping the linking verb. Try say this in Chinese "She is very beautiful". No verb eh? That's why. Then, a very good use of commas until the capital N screws it.
Write an essay an assignment submitted to Dr Qooble, He will proofread and mark your writings, give you comment and positive advices..Is it some new font which a full stop/period looks exactly the same as a comma? If it's a list of action, there should be a comma between "an essay" and "an assignment":
--> "Write an essay, write an assignment, submit to Dr Qooble and he will..."
If "submitted" is the verb, there's no subject. A writing cannot 'submit' itself.
--> "Write an essay or an assignment and submit it to Dr Qooble..."
OOOH!!! --- "submitted" sounds like "submit it" --- OMG (oh my gosh)Last "advice" is uncountable.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=advices
http://www.iciba.com/advices/Either Dr Qooble is far from HK or he's disclosing us some top secret!
Last 2 full stops. Is it Dr Qooble, his assistant or the typist?
Wanna take a look at the back of the pamplet or visit the website?
First of all English question is not the same as question about English. It has something to do with the UK's politics.
A noun before another noun, the first noun acts as an adjective. For example, carrot juice is juice with the taste of carrot; a vegetable person is a person who is like a vegetable (probably in coma).
A noun before another noun, the first noun acts as an adjective. For example, carrot juice is juice with the taste of carrot; a vegetable person is a person who is like a vegetable (probably in coma).
Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, usage, or expression, No question too simple? Can you find any verb in this ...er... line? Every sentence must have a verb. A lot of Chinese students have the same mistake - skipping the linking verb. Try say this in Chinese "She is very beautiful". No verb eh? That's why. Then, a very good use of commas until the capital N screws it.
Write an essay an assignment submitted to Dr Qooble, He will proofread and mark your writings, give you comment and positive advices..Is it some new font which a full stop/period looks exactly the same as a comma? If it's a list of action, there should be a comma between "an essay" and "an assignment":
--> "Write an essay, write an assignment, submit to Dr Qooble and he will..."
If "submitted" is the verb, there's no subject. A writing cannot 'submit' itself.
--> "Write an essay or an assignment and submit it to Dr Qooble..."
OOOH!!! --- "submitted" sounds like "submit it" --- OMG (oh my gosh)Last "advice" is uncountable.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=advices
http://www.iciba.com/advices/Either Dr Qooble is far from HK or he's disclosing us some top secret!
Last 2 full stops. Is it Dr Qooble, his assistant or the typist?
Wanna take a look at the back of the pamplet or visit the website?
2010年6月12日星期六
2010-06 海南*三亞之旅 (road trip) - 風景
Along the road ...
Vehicles and our car getting on the boat ...
2010年5月18日星期二
Go Banana = becomes crazy; Go Toilet ???
"to"
gives readers a sense of action done towards a place. Here, "go" is an
intransitive verb (i.e. no object; nothing to accept/receive the
action). One can make a toilet, break a toilet, flush the toilet (all transitive verbs) but 'go a toilet' doesn't make any sense. So one has to say "I go to school by bus."
Another meaning of "go" is "to be". For example: "go bananas" means "go crazy", i.e. to become crazy. I don't think your teachers would want to know if you want to be a toilet.
Sometimes, we go shopping, we go swimming ... Here, shopping and swimming are activities. Toilet is a thing. So you should say "Teacher, may I go wee wee/poo poo?" which is like in Chinese 先生, 我想痾屎!
2010年5月10日星期一
Are You Finished?
I tend to ask students if they 'are finished'. But they laugh as if I'm asking if they're dead.
Alternatives:
Are you done?
Are you through?
To or not to. That's the questions.
Student's
sentence: "We should help our parents to clean the house." Her teacher
crossed her 'to'. "To or not to. That's the question."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv226.shtml
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