Directory (1) Grammar for Emails Grammar for Writing Emails (1): Reply Summary: This post is about how to write emails with regard to the verb ‘reply‘, a verb that has been used incorrectly by lots of people. You will learn that ‘I will reply your email‘ is absolutely wrong, and that the concept behind is […]
Do you want to enhance your written English? Do you want to speak better English? If you do, you have to have a ‘feel of sentences‘. How do you ‘feel’ it? Look at the picture and you’ll get the answer: You have to visualize a sentence to locate the Big Verbs and Small Verbs. (Want the grammar terms? Well, Big Verbs are finite verbs and Small Verbs are non-finite.) […]
3 questions for you. Is English your mother tongue? Do your parents talk to you in English all the time? Do you think English sentences are something easy to master? If your answers to the questions are negative, then this post is important to you. How? It will probably change the ways you think about English sentences. Yet, don’t just sit where you are. This post asks […]
Summary: This post is about how to negotiate well with regard to the differences between ‘can‘ and ‘could‘. You will learn how to negotiate with others by giving them more ‘space’, which means you are more polite. Do you have to negotiate a lot? When firm A offers you a price, do you have […]
Summary: This post is about how to talk about things in the past. To your surprise, you will learn that there are (at least) two types of past in English. Yes, you are right, two. In a way, this post helps you understand the differences between the present perfect simple (PPS) and the simple past, but not in terms […]
Summary: This post is about how to talk about schedules (e.g. travel arrangements, entertainments, and public events). It argues that native speakers of English do not use ‘will’ all the time to talk about future. Instead, the simple present (e.g. There is an English class at 10 tomorrow.) is usually used. —————————————————– Do you know that? What? If you […]
This post is about how to make predictions in English. You will learn that there are two types of predictions in English: with evidence or without evidence. That is, after reading this post, you will work out the differences between ‘It is going to rain’ and ‘It will rain’, without much difficulties. ——————————————————- When […]
Summary: This post is about how to talk about future in English. To your surprise, ‘will’ is not always a good choice as it is only one of the ways native speakers (if you like, Westerners) use to refer to future. The post starts with words of pop songs (lyrics) and moves on to talk […]
When your coworkers or friends say, ‘How are you?’, how will you reply? Which one (of the following) do you prefer? ‘I am Good‘ or ‘I am Well‘. Are they the same? Absolutely not. ‘I am well‘ has something to do with your health, which is why you hear people say: I am not feeling well. So when people say, ‘How […]
Summary: The post is about how to make sentences with regard to verbs in English. You will understand that words are like children that they change all the time, that is, the same word can be a noun or a verb. In other words, the post attempts to change the way you think about English, […]
