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, […]
Does this happen to you? You prepare well before a presentation. Yet, when the real thing comes, you can’t speak a word. You wonder why it happens to you. ‘Why me?’ Well, you don’t have to be sad. If you have a higher level of language proficiency, will it make much difference to your career? […]
You always want to talk to your coworkers, and you’ve got something funny, but somehow you don’t know how to say it. Your English is the problem, right? Well, not anymore! ——————————————————– Yet, there is one thing you have to do. What is it? Change your concept, your way of thinking about how to learn […]
Dear Ms Funny The information you needed is as follows: —————————————————————— Do you add ‘s’ at the end of the ‘follow’? Or do not add ‘s’ at the end of the ‘follow’? Before you know which one is correct, there is a question for you. What is it? What is ‘as’ in ‘as follows’? Or, […]
Do you know that ‘I am agree with you’ is wrong? By ‘wrong’ I mean it is ABSOLUTELY WRONG. If you speak or write this kind of English, you are going down. But how can you write and speak better English? —————————— First of all, you have to understand what’s wrong with ‘I am agree […]
Do you want to make your presentation more powerful? Using Powerpoint? Well, maybe, but what if the Powerpoint has no power? There are lots of ways to do it. One of them is to start a sentence with ‘Wh’ words. ———————— Say, in your presentation, you want to talk about a BIG (city) plan to […]
