PREPOSITION

Hello guys, welcome back.

preposition means a word which typically goes before 

a noun phrase or pronoun as in:

• i had breakfast before going to school
• what did you come for?

here are some examples of prepositions

preposition of place : at, on, in

at	in	on
POINT	ENCLOSED SPACE	SURFACE
at the corner	in the garden	on the wall
at the bus stop	in London	on the ceiling
at the door	in France	on the door
at the top of the page	in a box	on the cover
at the end of the road	in my pocket	on the floor
at the entrance	in my wallet	on the carpet
at the crossroads	in a building	on the menu
at the front desk	in a car	on a page

preposition of time : for, since

We use for when we measure time ( minutes, seconds, hours, months, years)

that was all from me, wan ni halimatun saadiah. go go tesl

ADJECTIVES 1

assalamualaikum and helllooow  

welcome to ADJECTIVES site

                                        

types of adjectives :

types of adjectives :

• attributive adjective ( come immediately after the modified noun, attorney general, princess royal )
• predicative adjective (come after the noun and lingking verb, the scarf is pink, he is honest )
• post positive adjectives (come before the noun, a red scarf, an honest man )

qualitative adjectives :

person, thing in terms of qualities, size, age, shape

color adjectives :

specify color of things

compound qualitative adjectives :

good-looking, sun-tanned

interrogative adjectives :

which, what

demonstrative adjectives :

this, these, that, those.

 the adjectives that looks like adjective but sadly, it is not. verbs can become adjectives by adding -ed or -ing 

sample of emotions :

amuse
irritate 
comfort
fascinate
amaze
shock
disappoint

VERBS PART 2

                                                 
assalamualaikum and hello everyone. so, how are you today, i am hoping that you are in pink of  health

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

express an acivity that is in progress at the moment of sepaking. it began at recent past, is continuing at present, and will probably end at same point in the future.

- john is sleeping right now

- its raining

- she is writing another book this year

• PAST PROGRESSIVE

i/she/it was having dinner. we use prog to show that a state or action was in progress in the past

- he was sleeping when i arrived

- i was mending the tv while my wife was reading

• PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PROGRESSIVE

see the action of making speech as a whole, as a complete event in the past

- when we arrived, the judge made a speech 

past progressive describes a state or action in progress (not completed)

• FUTURE PROGRESSIVE

- he will be sleeping when we arrive

• PERFECT TENSE

- form = have+past participle

the perfect tenses all give idea that one thing happens before another time or event

• PRESENT PERFECT

- has/have + past participle

- i have already eaten

1. talking about something which began in the past and hasn't changed
2. talking about general experience
3. talking about very recent event
4. talking about recent events / states

• PAST PERFECT

- i had already eaten when they arrived

- past perfect +had + past participle

- the prisoner was released after he had been in prison for several years

• THE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES

- form= have+been+ing (present participle)

gives the idea that one event is in progress immediately before, up to, until another time/event

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVE

- i have been stdying for two hours

- has/have + been + verb-ing

• PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

i had been studying for two hours before my friend came

• FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

- i will have been stdying for 2 hours by the time you arrive

VERBS 1

                                   
assalamualaikum wbt

hello..VERB? VERB? VERB?

come,let me bring you deeply into VERB. verb can be grouped in to 3 major 

GROUP

• lexical verbs (run, eat, think ) functions only as main verbs
• primary verbs ( be, have, do ) can function as both auxiliary and main verbs
• modal verbs (can , could, shall, should) must function only as auxiliary verbs 

verb may also include :

1. verbs about mental activity :  ( believe, forget, notice, recognize, remember )
2. verbs describe emotional states : ( desire, hate, like, love, want )
3. certain other verbs : ( belong, fit, include, mean, need, matter )
4. verbs of perception : ( see, hear, smell, taste, sense(5) ) 

 

PRESENT SIMPLE :

                                   

                                    

use for :

thoughts and feelings, states of being,

facts, things are true for a long time,

repeated action

• present state, indicates a state that exist now.
• something true in past, is true now and will be true in the future
• a present habit : an act

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

                                   

we use present continuous for :

something that happening now, used for routine / situation that we see as temporary, always

 

the end 

      

NouN PArT 2

assalamualaikum w.b.t :-)

NOUN PART 2

thank a lot for spending your precious time visiting my blog. for this week. i am going to proceed with the description of NOUN.

during lecture, i was exposed to another branches of noun. they are, countable and uncountable noun.

dr. Kemboja did explain during lecture all about countable noun(count noun) and uncountable noun(uncount noun).

so, how can we differentiate between countable and uncountable noun?

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

uncountable noun is neither one, singular or plural.

e.g : ships (i can see ships in distance)

• cannot use a/an
• do not use numbers with an uncountable noun
• not three foods.

water is neither singular nor plural, therefore, we can use 

 -some water, water.

-much coffee

-few sandwiches

-abstract noun (fun, sleep, thirst)

COUNTABLE NOUNS

countable nouns can be singular or plural

e.g:  do you like these photos? (photos are singular, however we can count them)

        i have a sister ( a refers to one person, thus it is countable)

• a/an or one goes only for singular noun

apart from that, there are also nouns that can count and uncount. to be honest, i have never realise it before. or maybe it is my lack knowledge, well who knows. i have prepared some examples of nouns that can be countable and uncountable .

NOUNS THAT CAN BE COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

• a potato or potato?

a potato/potatoes- countable

potato - countable (mashed potato)

• a sport or sport ?

* rugby is a sport - countable

*do you like sport? - uncountable

well, that's all from lecture (noun 2), check out what was the interesting activity during tutoriar...

make your own recipe,make sure in your cooking recipe, you must include nouns..so what are they?

  tadaa...  bringing the sensation of real chocolate cake.!!

ingredients

• a small cup of cocoa powder
• a cup of sugar
• 2 chicken eggs ( you can use duck eggs also =) )
• a cup of wheat flour
• a cup of condensed milk ( better check it's expiry date first ok? )
• a cup of water
• a cup of cooking oil
• baking powder ( about a spoon)

methods :

firstly, whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl...keep whisking until they mix together ( fluffy). 

after that, pour a cup of water, followed by a cup of condensed milk.  next, you can put the wheat flour into the bowl and put some baking powder and not to mention the cocoa powder. you can put them as much as you want to.  next,you can put the mixture in steamer. wait about 15 minutes before it is ready.

what a very interesting way to strengthen my memory right?..credit to madam noraza. thank you very much madam.. 

week 3 - NOUN AND DETERMINERS

  assalamualaikum wbt. thank you for my blog, you will enjoy reading my own post. for the week three learning course, my class (tesl) is supposed to learn noun and determiners. during lecture, I was exposed to noun but in detail. where noun comes from? my foundation english's lecturer told us that noun derives from the Latin nomen, meaning 'name' referto place, person, thing, and event. apart from that, I also learnt about the countable nouns,singular nouns,collective nouns,  abstract nouns and genitive nouns.

  As for the countable noun, it is usually singular/plural form that you can count (count nouns). It is usually indefinite article ('a' or 'an').Moreover, abstract noun is a noun that you cannot sense, see, hear and touch. Collective noun, on the other hand, is a noun that is used to refer to groups of people, animals.

  In conclusion, noun can be explained based on 4 terms : common, proper, collective, and abstract. I am looking forward to learn more things throughout this semester.