Tuesday, August 23, 2011

GRAMMAR TEST !





ohh myy the question are so confusingg , its not that hard but it can make ur                            brain spin 360 to get the answer .
but its okayy , REDHO !

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE vs PAST PERFECT TENSE !

Present Perfect Tense

J to show an action took place in the past. The time of the action is unknown.

E.g : The student has received a favourable reply from the science boarding school.

J to show an action which started in the past, but its effect has continued until the present and probably continue to the future.

E.g : The consultant has trained many successful businessmen.

J repeated actions in the past.

E.g : I have regularly participated in the Malaysian Halal Exhibition for the past five years.

Time expression that is regularly used with present perfect tense:
Since
  For
  Yet
Already
  Just
Until now
 Up to now
  Ever
Never
  Still


Past Perfect Tense

F past perfect tense is used to show a past action which occurred before another past action.

E.g : The society had prepared the report before the student left for a academic seminar.
        After the manager had read the report, the secretary walked into his room.

The time expression used with the past perfect tense are :
  Before
  After
As soon as
By the time

Monday, August 8, 2011

conjuction ! Preposition ! Adverb !

CONJUCTION
  1.          Conjunctions connect words or groups of words.
  2.         Unlike prepositions, conjunctions don’t have objects.  Rather, they serve as a way to show     a   relationship between two words.

  1.      And
  2.      But
  3.      For
  4.      Nor
  5.      Or
  6.      So
  7.      Yet

Correlative Conjunction  
Similar to coordinating conjunctions in that they connect the same type of words, but work in pairs.
a.    both…and
b.    either/neither….or
c.    not only…..but also
d.    whether.....or

Subordinating Conjunction
Connect things which are not equal. One is less important (subordinate) than the other.
E.g:
1 - Because it rained all day, our basement filled up with water.
2 - did the planning after he made reservations

PREPOSITION
o  Preposition are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentence.
o   They usually located before a noun.

TYPES OF PREPOSITION
1)Simple Prepositions

     Simple prepositions are single word prepositions.
     e.g : The book is on the table. 

2) Compound Prepositions

Compound prepositions are more than one word such as in between, because of, in front of and on behalf of.
      e.g : The book is in front of the clock.

ADVERB
1) Adverbs are used to describe verbs. Generally, adverbs tell :
Ø                   tell how an action takes place:
·         quickly, slowly, lazily, higher, lower, nicely, patiently
Ø               describe when something happens:
·         soon, yesterday, now, today, always, never often
Ø               describe where something happens:
·         here, there, inside, outside, around, through, beneath

2)Adverbs are also used to describe adjectives :
·         That ice cream is extremely delicious
·         The politician’s speech was terribly obnoxious

3)The other use of adverbs is to describe another adverbs
·         The guards checks our student cards meticulously carefully
·         We jumped frantically happily because the class was cancelled