Bite an English per day

Use: To substitute for a noun

Types:

1. Personal Pronouns
2. Reflexive Pronouns
3. Interrogative Pronouns
-used to ask questions
e.g.
who-person (Who are you?)
whose-possession (Whose book is this?)
what-things (What is the thing red in colour?)
which-choice (Which colour you prefer?)
where-place (Where is your house?)
how-method/procedure (How to make jelly?)

4. Demonstrative Pronouns
-to demonstrate/show
e.g.
this-to point nearer singular thing
that-to point farther singular thing
these-to point nearer plural things
those-to point farther plural things

Use: To substitute for a noun

Types:

1. Personal Pronouns
a. Nominative Pronoun
- replace nouns and used as the subject
e.g.
First person singular-I,
First person plural-We;
Second person singular/plural-You;
Third person singular-He, She, It;
Third person plural-They

Sharon has a pencil. She buys the pencil.

b. Accusative Pronoun
-takes the function of an indirect object of a verb and used as the object
e.g.
First person singular-me;
First person plural-us;
Second person singular/plural-you;
Third person singular-him, her, it;
Third person plural-them

Sharon's mother gave a pen to her.

c. Possessive Pronoun
Possessive Adjectives
-takes the function of an adjective
e.g.
First person singular-my;
First person plural-our;
Second person singular/plural-your;
Third person singular-his, her, its;
Third person plural-their

Sharon lost her pencil.

Absolute Possessive Pronoun
-takes the function of a pronoun and an adjective
e.g.
First person singular-mine;
First person plural-ours;
Second person singular/plural-yours;
Third person singular-his, hers;
Third person plural-theirs

Is this pencil yours or mine?

2. Reflexive Pronouns
-the pronoun is the subject of the verb
e.g.
First person singular-myself;
First person plural-ourselves;
Second person singular-yourself
Second person plural-yourselves;
Third person singular-himself, herself;
Third person plural-themselves

I cook the dish myself.

#highlight:
We can find this song is blended with both abstract and concrete nouns.
E.g.
Abstract-dream, wish, fantasy, hope, love, comfort, protection, pleasure
Concrete-mountain, sea, sky, star
The abstract nouns are used in relation to the intimate feeling and essential part of life, while the concrete nouns are mostly the natural imagery which is also the essential part of our life.
The message could be that the lover declares to be the essential part of his partner's life. At the same time, he needs her 'truly madly deeply' too in his life. They are the essential part for one another's life.

Harry Chapin's Flowers are red
Someone might think this song is lullaby. It is not merely a lullaby. It conveys a message "Restriction limits Creativity". Special to parents or teachers, let the child grows and makes full use of his/her creativity. We don't have solely one rule for whole.

Use: To name a person, place, thing, quality, state or action

Types:

1. Common Noun
- a name common to all members of a large class of people, animals, things
e.g. man, cat, table

2. Proper Noun
- the name of particular person, place, thing (capitalise)
e.g. Helen, New York, Delio

3. Collective Noun
- a name for a group of people, animal, things as a whole
e.g. jury, government, crowd

4. Abstract Noun
- name of a quality, state of mind, physical condition, idea or an action
e.g. belief, happiness, sadness

Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a particle which can be preposition or/and adverb. The preposition/adverb used can totally change the meaning of the verb.

E.g.:
get in=enter a small, closed vehicle
get over=recover from an illness
get up=leave bed after sleeping

There is no shortcut to learn phrasal verb. Learn more by reading more.

Here, I'd like to share some phrasal verbs (sorted out by alphabets) with meaning and sentence.


Start with A!

A1. act like=behave in a way like...
Why is she acting like a clown? Does she feel ashamed of herself, doesn't she?

A2. add up=logically fit together
The preset perception is questionable, but its evidences add up.

A3. add up to=to total
The utility bills of this month add up to RM1,334.96. We really have to cut down the usage of the utilities.

Topic: Christmas
Language point: Past tense
Vocabulary: Christmas, card, stamp, pen, dinner

It was two weeks before Christmas, and Mrs Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband's friends, and put them on the table in the living-room. Then, when her husband came home from work, she said to him, 'Here are the Christmas cards for our friends, and here are some stamps, a pen and our book of addresses. Will you please write the cards while I am cooking the dinner?'
Mr Smith did not say anything, but walked out of the living-room and went to his study. Mrs Smith was very angry with him, but did not say anything either.
Then a minute later he came back with a box full of Christmas cards. All of them had addresses and stamps on them.
'These are from last year,' he said. 'I forgot to post them.'

Comprehension questions:
1. When was Mrs Smith very busy ?
2. What did she do ?
3. Why did she buy the cards ?
4. Where did she put them ?
5. What did she say to her husband ?
6. What did Mr Smith say ?
7. What did he do ?
8. How did Mrs Smith feel ?
9. What did she say ?
10. What did Mr Smith do a minute later ?
11. What did he say ?

(Source: Elementary Stories For Reproduction 1, Oxford University Press)

Music is soothing. In relaxed mode, most of the time, we can learn effectively. With the melody, we can easily remember the lyric of the song. In contrast, we take long time to remember a text even though it is short. That's the power of music. Thus, music is always one of the effective ways of learning English.

Here, I attached a pop song. Let's learn together.



#Highlight:
I want nobody nobody, but you.
but is a conjunction used to introduce contrasting qualities.
Thus. The line above means the persona wants no person. In contrast, she only wants 'you' (the lover in her heart).

Correct the errors

Day 1:
The Amy has just teached her brother english.
Amy has just taught her brother English.

Day 2:
She made her own cloths, plant flowers and reading books every day.
She makes her own clothes, plants flowers and reads books every day.

Day 3:
She tell we how to made bookmarks.
She tells us how to make bookmarks.

Day 4:
He playing badminton in primary school.
He played badminton in primary school.

Day 5:
The teahcers had a race with the childs during the sports day.
The teachers had a race with the children during the sports day.








Answer:
Day 1:
Amy has just taught her brother English.

Day 2:
She makes her own clothes, plants flowers and reads books every day.

Day 3:
She tells us how to make bookmarks.

Day 4:
He played badminton in primary school.

Day 5:
The teachers had a race with the children during the sports day.

To write does not mean start writing away.

We need to follow the writing process.

Here is the outline of the writing process: (Have a glance through it.)