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Re: the reason

Tanit — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:46:57 GMT

Buddhist-Accountant
the answer is B " Happened"

But,I wonder why that is the answer.I think it should be use "was happened" because it is passive..

Hi,

Why do you think it should be passive? Only transitive verbs (i.e. those that need to be followed by direct objects, without any preposition) have passive forms, and "happen" is intransitive.

To put it simply (and only as a rough guideline):
    Write => transitive verb:
        Active: My friend John wrote a letter.
        Passive: A letter was written by John.
    Laugh => intransitive verb:
        Active: Yesterday, I laughed at my friend's joke.
        No passive (we cannot say "~~My friend's joke was laughed~~")

Happen => intransitive verb:
        Active: Yesterday, something weird happened to me.
        No passive (we cannot say "~~I was happened something weird~~")

Does this help?

A Little Help with Capitals

angel_tristan0409 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:10 GMT

A Little Help with Capitals

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Use capital letters in the following ways:

The first words of a sentence

When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line.

The pronoun "I"

The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago.

Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

Worrill Fabrication Company

Golden Gate Bridge

Supreme Court

Livingston, Missouri

Atlantic Ocean

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Family relationships (when used as proper names)

I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail, but not to my other aunts.

Here is a present I bought for Mother.

Did you buy a present for your mother?

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

God the Father

the Virgin Mary

the Bible

the Greek gods

Moses

Shiva

Buddha

Zeus

Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god.

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi.

I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville.

Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

The Patels have moved to the Southwest.

Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein.

The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)

Halloween

October

Friday

winter

spring

fall

Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.

The Fall 1999 semester

The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

Costa Rica

Spanish

French

English

The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

One of Jerry's favorite books is The Catcher in the Rye.

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

Green Bay Packers

African-Americans

Anti-Semitic

Democrats

Friends of the Wilderness

Chinese

Periods and events (but not century numbers)

Victorian Era

Great Depression

Constitutional Convention

sixteenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Honda

IBM

Microsoft Word

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

Freudian

NBC

pasteurize

french fries

italics

Re: Two question about "where"

Velimir — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:30:28 GMT

Hello again,

I would say too that it is a tricky question for non-professionals like us Kooyeen.Thank you again for giving your explanation.By the way,I've read a good joke about this "Where are you going to".Maybe its an old joke,but I've read it only recently,so here it is :

A: Where're you going to?

B: Hey dummy, don't you know you're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition?

A: Oh yeah; where're you going to,d...head ?

As to emoticons,unfortunately,I don't see "insert smiley",probably because of the browser(I use Opera,and I like it).

Hello Ant 222,thank you for joining this post.And thank you for giving me a chance to give one answer myself.

"The question is: "Why do you need to know it? Will it make your English better?"

The answer is: "Absolutely."

Here goes one smiling smiley.

Best regards

Velimir

Re: preposition at the end

CalifJim — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:29:54 GMT

All of these are just fine. Don't worry about prepositions at the end.

This is the sort of bucket you can put garbage in.
Who did you borrow the money from?
Is she somebody you'd like to go to a concert with?
I wonder how many people I'm going to write Christmas cards to this year.
I heard a great joke the other day. Now I just have to find someone to tell it to.
That's the guy I showed the car to. I wonder if he'll buy it.
Jane says that this spoon is the one you're supposed to mix the vegetables with.
The boss is looking for someone he can blame the mistakes on.
Is this the table I should set the box on?
That's not the project I want to apply my efforts to.
Topology is a subject she just can't get her mind around.
That's an incident we'll never hear the last of.
It was moral support that he relied on his brother for.
That was the bear that he had to defend his children against.
They've already replaced the window that Peter accidentally threw the ball through.

CJ

Re: Other doubts, please!

Feebs11 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:29:54 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
What is the correct option, please?

- My travel to a foreign country (or) my trip to a foreign country? "trip"

- People are very handsome (or) people are very nice? The first says they are good-looking; the second says they are pleasant by nature. Which do you want to use?

- Is it Ok if I say: They've gone to China for a job (the idea here is that they've gone to China because they've got a good job there) ? Yes

- Any mistake in: I hope you are very well / I hope to see you soon. No

- "Advocate's office" and "Law firm" are they the same thing ? Depends which country you are talking about. In Britain, a law firm might be a solicitor's office, only dealing with legal matters such as wills, house purchases, preparing legals documents, or it could be a barrister's office dealing with presenting cases in the lawcourts. An Advocate's office is the same as a barrister's office.

- In spite of the nervous about the test, I feel that I can pass. In spite of feeling nervous about the test

- If I pass on the exam, I'll travel to Canada. If I pass the exam [no preposition is needed]

- He laughed with me (or together with me ?) about that funny joke. "together" is not needed.

Thanks a lot,

Samara

Re: is this sentence correct? what are you accusing me of?

nona the brit — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:54:50 GMT

He was making a joke about the 'rule' that prepositions should not be at the end of the sentence. The only natural way to say this is 'This is the kind of impertinence I shall not put up with'. He was showing how ridiculous it sounded if you re-arranged it to avoid getting the prep at the end.

Some quick jokes

Kooyeen — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:45:09 GMT

Hi guys,
I found these jokes on the net and I liked 'em, hope you like 'em too, enjoy

A guyâs walking past an asylum, and can hear all the inmates inside screaming at the top of their lungs, âThirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!!!â. He peeks through a hole in the fence to see what all the commotion is about, and a finger suddenly pops out and jabs him in the eye. He yells in pain, and the inmates all start gleefully shouting, âFourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!!!â.

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesnât seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cellphone and calls 911. He gasps to the operator, âMy friend is dead! What can I do?â The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, âJust take it easy. I can help. First, letâs make sure heâs dead.â There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guyâs voice comes back on the line. He says, âOK, now what?

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: âThatâs the ugliest baby that Iâve ever seen.â The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: âThat driver just insulted me!â The man says: âYou go right up there and tell him off â go ahead, Iâll hold your monkey for you.â

Texan: âWhere are you from?â
Harvard graduate: âI come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions.â
Texan: âOK, where are you from, Jackass?â

Prepositions

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:18:51 GMT

Hello,

Actually I've spent some time learning te English grammar but it seems i hit the dead end. Nobody was able to explain to me when i should use prepositions like TO, AT, IN, INTO, ON, BETWEEN, UNDER, IN FRONT etc.

What's the difference between these two? say i want to ask you to see my new web site:

- Please take a look at the new site i finished last night.

- Please take a look in the new site i finished last night.

or to answer to your question where she lives?

- She lives in Japan.

- She lives at Japan.

I choosed these two examples but there are many other situations that i cannot handle with.

Often people make a jokes on my english especially when i missuse the prepositions.

Thank you very much for the clarification.

Re: my trip

nona the brit — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:55:41 GMT

Hello, I've made some corrections in bold and the highlighted areas are other problems that I've left you to work out for yourself. Your main problems are with prepositions and articles. You are missing out lots of these. You also have a lot of problems with punctuation and are just putting lots in at random. Don't leave a space before any punctuation, such as commas. Stop using random rows of full stops (periods) as punctuation, it doesn't mean anything. An ellipsis ... (three dots only) can be used in some circumstances but you shouldn't over-use it, and most of yours are not being used appropriately.

Though again..., What had I done in a whole year? After Christmas, we went on the gospel trip to small villages. One was " Myint Kyo" and another one was âKyawe da Nyin Gone" (buffalo....village). The journey was so hard, especially as it was over a long distance; the first thing we rode was the train, then there was a long car journey, a pony-cart, a car and a canoe ... and then we arrived at âMyit kyoâvillage.

When we arrived at the village I felt that ????..and then, at that night our performance has been good recently such as drama, mime, puppet show, solo, Duet, Group song and Burmese dance with play a joke..this part doesn't make sense.We finished at 1:30am.

The next day, we couldn't get up early in the morning, but we would try and celebrate with a Christmas party at Myit Kyo church. After that we were packed off to another place and we went by canoe, car, motorcycle and on foot. The motorcycle couldnât get over the bridge so we must have walked 4 miles.

When we arrived at âkyawe Dan yin goneâ village, weâve had problems with the water supply (lately) everybody looks like jungle man... You know, weâve been breathe dustâ¦. No more water, no light?????? So what could we do? We took dinner first & prepared for night program and then we started at nearly 9:30pm itâs getting cold. Timeâs too late but weâve got another problem. Generator doesnât work so we prayed a lot bless it. Everybody wait seeâ¦â¦ nobody went back home.

Our performances was as same as "Myit Kyo" program & we finished at 2:00 am. After that we went back hostel. Everybody wants to take a rest but not enough for mat. Weâve got one mat. How could we sleep? (20 girls)We were in big, big trouble

Re: Question with preposition at the end

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:22:53 GMT

Let me start by saying that english is not my first language. Anyway, I was reading this joke the other day:

*********
A girl from Georgia and a girl from the west coast were seated side by side on an airplane.
The girl from Georgia, being friendly and all, said, "So, where ya from?"
The west coast girl said, "From a place where they know better than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence."
The girl from Georgia sat quietly for a few moments and then in her Sweetest Southern Accent replied:
"So, where ya from, ***?"
**********

I liked it a lot but then I started to look on the internet for this "no preposition at the end of a sentence" rule. Why? Because I would like to know how can I ask "Where are you from?" without placing the preposition at the end... Any solutions?
Thank you.