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Re: Please upgrade this

Hoa Thai — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:23:52 GMT

Believer wrote:
Once you enter the premises, you will see desks with a piece of paper that has a capital letter written on it. You are to find the letter that corresponds to the first letter of your last name and check-in. After you have signed your name and the person at the desk have confirmed your payment of the registration fee, you will be given a name tag and will be told where to go next. You will see plenty of refleshments on various locations and people with 'Ask Me' badges all over the place to get help.

And for that you seemed to question the use of the present perfect for the underlined parts. Personally, I think it is possible for me to use the past perfect tenses there because I think I have heard this type of tense being used in this kind of context.

I see what makes you think so! It must be the word 'After' - Right? Let's look at this sentence: Find your name, sign in, and wait for confirmation. How about this one: He said that I needed to brush my teeth before I went to bed. Do you notice the timing associated with those sentences? The present perfect tense sends me, your reader, a wrong signal! You started your sentence with the present tense to take me along with you as you speak. Suddenly, you say, "After you have signed" - "What? Aren't we still together" would be my reaction.

In short, all you have to say, "After you sign your name and get the confirmation of paid registration fee by the receptionist, s/he will give you a nametag and show you where you go next." Do you see that you are still walking me through the process?

Believer wrote:

Employer: OK, John, go and deliever this package to the two places I marked on this piece of paper. Go up this street and turn right after two blocks. Right next to the movie theater, you will see the "ZZZ Hardware" store. Get in there and give this to the manager. After you have delivered the first package, you are to head up two more blocks and find ...

The task of delivering the package hasn't begun, but I think the use of the present perfect in one's instructions is fine. What do you think?

Same answer as before.

Believer wrote:

2. Also, would you say that the basic reason for placing 'that' here is because the word 'place' is a subject (although it is the subject of a modifying clause) and since it is a subject, 'that' isn't optional. Does it sound correct to you?

..., since the place that they will attend will be obvious ...

The that is optional. However, I added it to signal the reader that there is another clause after. I got into that habit of mine just in case later I want to add extra thought in between.

Re: comma question.

Grammar Geek — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:22:11 GMT

Market, remember to start your sentence with a capital letter.

His jacket snags on a branch protruding from the wall.

snags - this is the present tense. Do you mean that it happens over and over? Otherwise, I suggest you use either "snagged" (it happened in the past) or "is snagged" (it is the case right now).on a

branch - a branch is part of a tree. This is fine if he is in the woods, but it's not likley to be protruding from a wall. Do you mean nail?

His jacket is snagged on a nail protructing from the wall.

Re: sugar

Clive — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:09:35 GMT

Hi,

Can we say "Sugar was the color of earth" if that is a generic (general) statement? No. If you want to make general statements about sugar, use present tense, eg Sugar is sweet.

The person possibly put the article 'the' because of the reason of specificity which might be come about by a several sources, like 1) a prior precedence and 2) a specific mention, isn't it? Yes.

Also, earth is used when generally referring to soil and the earth is used to refer to the overall concept of the earth we are living at? Yes. Use a capital letter. The Earth.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: different and another

Clive — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:04:30 GMT

Hi,

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, Clive

Re: Hello

abbie1948 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:28:37 GMT

Hi 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.