http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aCapital+letters+tag%3aTenses+tag%3aSimple+presentSearch results for 'tag:Capital letters tag:Tenses tag:Simple present' matching tags 'Capital letters', 'Tenses', and 'Simple present'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferentAndAnother/ddbkh/post.htm#265768Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:04:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:265768cliveHi i saw this at korean forum some one who asked it on what different between different and another which one is a correct sentence i find different job Simple present tense is not good in either of these examples You might say I am finding a different job I am going to find a different job I found a different job etc It depends on what you mean i find another job please explain them if there is wrong Say it this way I m trying to find a different job I m trying to find another job i m looking for a new job You don t seem to think that capital letters are important in English They are so please use them Best wishes Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Hello/brwkb/post.htm#86004Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:28:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:86004abbie1948Hi Jazz Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line Re your reply to Ali 1 In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter and we use a capital letter for people s names and for names of places such as London the Indian Ocean etc So your greeting should be Hi Student I know that when we use the internet or text we often leave out things like capital letters and punctuation but when you are learning it s a good excercise to pay attention to the details We also always use a capital letter for I 2 It is important to use a dictionary to ensure your spelling is correct But we all make mistakes Here is a list of your spelling errors articale indifinint pronounse diffecult difinint resturant papular studing See if you can find these in a dictionary and correct them 3 Verbs these can be quite difficult to understand This site might help http www learnenglish org uk wordgame_current_frame html here are the using This needs to be present simple noun Here is the use Use is a verb but also a noun and you are using it as a noun here As it is singular the verb also needs to be singulr A is called NOT is calling I agree it sounds as if you should use the present continuous here but in fact we don t we use the simple past I was called X when I was born and it is a long situation and use with only nouns Here you need the present tense of be the participle used and is used with book is A noun and began with b The simple present here it is a permanent situation book begins with b and will always begin with b the same goes for nice BEGINS with n Also pay attention to your articles particularly as this post is about articles I went to a restaurant and I have had Here you need the simple past I had my lunch there because having lunch is a short quickly finish action Which restaurant I talked about The past progressive is better here it is used for temporary actions and situations in the past Which restaurant I was talking about Presumably you didn t talk for years about the restaurant nor did you repeatedly talk about it OK here s the corrected item although I m leaving the spelling mistakes in so you can look them up Hi Student Here is the use of these articales A is called THE indifinint articale and useD with only nouns or adjectives which already begin with A CONSONANT FOR example a book a nice rose Book is A noun and begINS with b nice is AN adjective and begINS with n and so on An is also dealT with it as AN articale but we can use it with nouns or adjectives which begin with vowelS such as a u i o e and someTIMES h when we pronounse IT like honest so we can say an honest boy To MAKE IT easIER for you try to use a with apple You will note that IT IS more diffecult TO say an apple isn t it Ali The is THE difinint articale IT is usED for someTHING we already know or someTHING we HAVE mentionED in our conversation so when we want to repeat it again we use the before it eg I went to a resturant and I HAD my lunch there I saw my old friend in the resturant WE USE THE BECAUSE YOU already know which resturant I WAS TALKING about Also we use it with something UNIQUE in the world eg The Indian Ocean but we can t use it before people S names OR meals like lunch dinner ETC So the has many uses By the way u r studing in THE UK It is A GOOD place to LEARN BETTER English I AM jealous u coz I WISH I WERE there P S Re full membership I think this is very reasonable question because I didn t know at first I think it depends upon how many times you post a question or response to the forum so keep on working and it will just happen Do keep on answering posts as you did to Ali because it helps everyone