Something Different. It's Interjections!

Interjection!
Taken From: EnglishClub.com

Interjection is a big name for a little word. Interjections are short exclamations like Oh!, Um or Ah! They have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually more in speaking than in writing. When interjections are inserted into a sentence, they have no grammatical connection to the sentence. An interjection is sometimes followed by an exclamation mark (!) when written.

Interjections like er and um are also known as "hesitation devices". They are extremely common in English. People use them when they don't know what to say, or to indicate that they are thinking about what to say. You should learn to recognize them when you hear them and realize that they have no real meaning.

The table below shows some interjections with examples.

interjection	meaning	example
ah	expressing pleasure	"Ah, that feels good."
	expressing realization	"Ah, now I understand."
	expressing resignation	"Ah well, it can't be heped."
	expressing surprise	"Ah! I've won!"
alas	expressing grief or pity	"Alas, she's dead now."
dear	expressing pity	"Oh dear! Does it hurt?"
	expressing surprise	"Dear me! That's a surprise!"
eh	asking for repetition	"It's hot today." "Eh?" "I said it's hot today."
	expressing enquiry	"What do you think of that, eh?"
	expressing surprise	"Eh! Really?"
	inviting agreement	"Let's go, eh?"
er	expressing hesitation	"Lima is the capital of...er...Peru."
hello, hullo	expressing greeting	"Hello John. How are you today?"
	expressing surprise	"Hello! My car's gone!"
hey	calling attention	"Hey! look at that!"
	expressing surprise, joy etc	"Hey! What a good idea!"
hi	expressing greeting	"Hi! What's new?"
hmm	expressing hesitation, doubt or disagreement	"Hmm. I'm not so sure."
oh, o	expressing surprise	"Oh! You're here!"
	expressing pain	"Oh! I've got a toothache."
	expressing pleading	"Oh, please say 'yes'!"
ouch	expressing pain	"Ouch! That hurts!"
uh	expressing hesitation	"Uh...I don't know the answer to that."
uh-huh	expressing agreement	"Shall we go?" "Uh-huh."
um, umm	expressing hesitation	"85 divided by 5 is...um...17."
well	expressing surprise	"Well I never!"
	introducing a remark	"Well, what did he say?"

Going for Conjunctions!

Conjunctions

A conjunction is a word that "joins". A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence.

Here are some example conjunctions:

Coordinating Conjunctions	Subordinating Conjunctions
and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so	although, because, since, unless

We can consider conjunctions from three aspects.

Form

Conjunctions have three basic forms:

• Single Word
  for example: and, but, because, although
  
  
• Compound (often ending with as or that)
  for example: provided that, as long as, in order that
  
  
• Correlative (surrounding an adverb or adjective)
  for example: so...that

Function

Conjunctions have two basic functions or "jobs":

• Coordinating conjunctions are used to join two parts of a sentence that are grammatically equal. The two parts may be single words or clauses, for example:
  - Jack and Jill went up the hill.
  - The water was warm, but I didn't go swimming.
  
  
• Subordinating conjunctions are used to join a subordinate dependent clause to a main clause, for example:
  - I went swimming although it was cold.

Position

• Coordinating conjunctions always come between the words or clauses that they join.
  
  
• Subordinating conjunctions usually come at the beginning of the subordinate clause.

Here are the sites for the two kinds of Conjunctions that has been listed down. Please be sure to have a look in them for more information.
Coordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions

Time for Some Prepostion!

What is a Preposition?

A preposition is a word governing, and usually coming in front of, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, as in:

• She left before breakfast.
  
  
• What did you come for?
  (For what did you come?)

The Rules of Preposition

There is one very simple rule about prepositions. And, unlike most rules, this rule has no exceptions.

Rule
A preposition is followed by a "noun". It is never followed by a verb.

By "noun" we include:

• noun (dog, money, love)
• proper noun (name) (Bangkok, Mary)
• pronoun (you, him, us)
• noun group (my first job)
• gerund (swimming)

A preposition cannot be followed by a verb. If we want to follow a preposition by a verb, we must use the "-ing" form which is really a gerund or verb in noun form.

Quick Quiz: In the following sentences, why is "to" followed by a verb? That should be impossible, according to the above rule:

• I would like to go now.
• She used to smoke.

Here are some examples:

Subject + verb	preposition	"noun"
The food is	on	the table.
She lives	in	Japan.
Tara is looking	for	you.
The letter is	under	your blue book.
Pascal is used	to	English people.
She isn't used	to	working.
I ate	before	coming.

There are two types of preposition that I listed down for you. So I hope you will be able to look into it for more information.
So please be sure to go through it and if there's anything you don't understand, just let me know and I will give you a hand about it the best I can.

Preposition of Time
Preposition of Place

Lets Learn Gerunds and Infinitives!

Gerunds and infinitives are forms of verbs that act like nouns. They can follow adjectives and other verbs. Gerunds can also follow prepositions.

A gerund (often known as an -ing word) is a noun formed from a verb by adding -ing. See also Nouns/Gerunds. Not all words formed with -ing are gerunds.

An infinitive is to + the verb.

When a verb follows a verb it either takes the gerund or infinitive form.

Some verbs can take either the gerund or the infinitive with no loss of meaning.

For example:

• With the verb start - "It started to rain." or "It started raining." Both sentences have the same meaning.

Sometimes the use of the gerund or infinitive changes the meaning of the sentence.

For example:

• With the verb remember - "I remembered to do my homework". or "I remembered doing my homework."

In the first sentence (I remembered to do my homework), the person speaking remembered they had some homework first and then carried out the action and did it. In the second sentence (I remembered doing my homework.), the person speaking carried out the action (their homework) first and then remembered doing it.

Other verbs only take one or the other, unfortunately there is no rule as to which form the verb takes. The same is true when the verb follows an adjective.

Never Ending Storyline

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Never Ending Storyline Game

Here's the basics rule of it:

1. On the first part of the story, I will start off with a small paragraph of the story.
2. Then, you all will create your own kind of paragraph so the story will continue
3. Each students will only need to create just one paragraph.
4. The paragraph needs to be written here, on the comment box that is provided below.
5. Make the story interesting and nice to be read.
6. Cursing word isn't allow in the section.
7. I will look at it every single day. Punishment will be given if there's any inappropriate doings here.
8. Have fun!

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Starting point of the story:

It's early in the morning and there was a couple of loud ringing sound in Sarah's bedroom. The ringing kept on sounding for the whole 5 minutes until her brother came in her room, closing his ears, and click all the alarm's off. With a slight sigh, he then shook her hard since they're be late for school is she did not wake up. Then...

Lets Go For Adverbs!

Adverbs

An adverb is a word that tells us more about a verb. An adverb "qualifies" or "modifies" a verb (The man ran quickly). But adverbs can also modify adjectives (Tara is really beautiful), or even other adverbs (It works very well).

Many different kinds of word are called adverbs. We can usually recognise an adverb by its:

1. Function (Job)
2. Form
3. Position

1. Function

The principal job of an adverb is to modify (give more information about) verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. In the following examples, the adverb is in bold and the word that it modifies is in italics.

• Modify a verb:
  - John speaks loudly. (How does John speak?)
  - Mary lives locally. (Where does Mary live?)
  - She never smokes. (When does she smoke?)
  
  
• Modify an adjective:
  - He is really handsome.
  
  
• Modify another adverb:
  - She drives incredibly slowly.

But adverbs have other functions, too. They can:

• Modify a whole sentence:
  - Obviously, I can't know everything.
  
  
• Modify a prepositional phrase:
  - It's immediately inside the door.

2. Form

Many adverbs end in -ly. We form such adverbs by adding -ly to the adjective. Here are some examples:

• quickly, softly, strongly, honestly, interestingly

But not all words that end in -ly are adverbs. "Friendly", for example, is an adjective.

Some adverbs have no particular form, for example:

• well, fast, very, never, always, often, still

3. Position

Adverbs have three main positions in the sentence:

• Front (before the subject):
  - Now we will study adverbs.
  
  
• Middle (between the subject and the main verb):
  - We often study adverbs.
  
  
• End (after the verb or object):
  - We study adverbs carefully.

And for more information:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverbs.htm

Lets Go For Irregular Verbs!

Students! As for today's lesson, I would like you all to see this short video I have posted up here to be look into. There is also a question that you can can do so so you can reply the answer at the comment section of this post. Have fun learning!



As for the exercise, it can be found at the "English Exercise" Section. So be sure to give them a try. Be sure to submit your answers so I can check whether you understood the topic that is given.

Lets Review the Simple Future Tense!

Simple Future Tense

I will sing

The simple future tense is often called will, because we make the simple future tense with the modal auxiliary will.

How do we make the Simple Future Tense?

The structure of the simple future tense is:

subject	+	auxiliary verb WILL	+	main verb
		invariable		base
		will		V1

For negative sentences in the simple future tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example sentences with the simple future tense:

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I	will		open	the door.
+	You	will		finish	before me.
-	She	will	not	be	at school tomorrow.
-	We	will	not	leave	yet.
?	Will	you		arrive	on time?
?	Will	they		want	dinner?

When we use the simple future tense in speaking, we often contract the subject and auxiliary verb:

I will	I'll
you will	you'll
he will she will it will	he'll she'll it'll
we will	we'll
they will	they'll

For negative sentences in the simple future tense, we contract with won't, like this:

I will not	I won't
you will not	you won't
he will not she will not it will not	he won't she won't it won't
we will not	we won't
they will not	they won't

How do we use the Simple Future Tense?

No Plan

We use the simple future tense when there is no plan or decision to do something before we speak. We make the decision spontaneously at the time of speaking. Look at these examples:

• Hold on. I'll get a pen.
• We will see what we can do to help you.
• Maybe we'll stay in and watch television tonight.

In these examples, we had no firm plan before speaking. The decision is made at the time of speaking.

We often use the simple future tense with the verb to think before it:

• I think I'll go to the gym tomorrow.
• I think I will have a holiday next year.
• I don't think I'll buy that car.

Prediction

We often use the simple future tense to make a prediction about the future. Again, there is no firm plan. We are saying what we think will happen. Here are some examples:

• It will rain tomorrow.
• People won't go to Jupiter before the 22nd century.
• Who do you think will get the job?

Be

When the main verb is be, we can use the simple future tense even if we have a firm plan or decision before speaking. Examples:

• I'll be in London tomorrow.
• I'm going shopping. I won't be very long.
• Will you be at work tomorrow?

More detail:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_future.htm

Exercise taken from:
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-future.php

Lets Us Look Into Simple Past Regular Verb

The past tense of a verb is usually formed by adding "ed" to the end of the verb. If the word ends with an "e," then just add "d".

The past tense of the verb "to listen"

Person		Singular	Plural
first		I listened	we listened
second		you listened	you listened
third		he listened	they listened
third		it listened
third		she listened

Further Examples:

Infinitive		Past form	Sentence form
live		lived	Elizabeth and I lived in France last year.
watch		watched	You and the man watched tennis in 1986.
talk		talked	The people talked last night.
use		used	The team used a bus to travel to the last game.

When the past tense of a verb ends in a "y" preceded by a consonant, then form the simple past verb by dropping the "y" and adding "ied" to the end of the verb.

The past tense of the verb "to study"

Person		Singular	Plural
first		I studied	we studied
second		you studied	you studied
third		he studied	they studied
third		it studied
third		she studied

The past tense of the verb "to play"

Person		Singular	Plural
first		I played	we played
second		you played	you played
third		he played	they played
third		it played
third		she played

For more details:
http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/GrammarCentral/simplepast.html

Lets Learn Simple Present Tense!

Students!
Let us start with today's lesson with Simple present tense so as for today I would like you all to look into this video that I have posted here for you all to be learning. So enjoy the video and do your best on learning them!




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