Summary: This post is about how to group verbs into different folders so that it iseasier, if not funnier, for you to learn verbs in English, Business English in special. In a word, it is also a simplified version of verb groupings from the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (p.361-364). Verbs (2): How many verbs are there (Part I)? […]
Summary: You are busy writing an email so that your boss Mr Big will get your reply soon. But do you know that ‘I will reply your email soon’ is not English. Simply put, it is wrong. A. What is wrong? Really? Why? In English, it is weird, if not grammatically incorrect, to reply […]
Summary: This post is about how to make sentences with regard to verbs that are intransitive. You will learn that ‘I wait you‘ is incorrect and understand the reason behind. In a sense, this post attempts to explain transitivity in terms of sentence structures, which makes English different from other languages, especially Asian ones. Why […]
Most of us (whose mother tongue is not English) have been learning English for years. But sometimes there are questions to which we don’t know how to explain. What questions am I talking about? For example, everyone knows that ‘take your time‘ is polite, right. But the question is: why? Why is it polite? I […]
