HI, ladies!!
Plum, thank you so much for letting us exercise the interesting self-test. I tried them but made seven mistakes. Answers and explanations seem to be very instructive, and I got so interested in the section on “five sources of definiteness”, which was written in answers, that I searched for it on the Net.
Article usage
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/esl.html
I’d like to learn them one by one, if I have some free time in the near future.
So, see you next. Bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Monday, February 9, 2009, today. The weather has been cool here in Sydney, and the day time high was expected to be only 24 degrees in the morning news. It has been cloudy all day and it’s getting dark earlier than usual. Very weird weather…
We seldom watch a whole piece of news on TV although we could take a look at fragments of some pieces of news, since we have to be watching Yujin and Kenjin all the time. We know almost nothing about Victoria's devastating bushfires and the unfolding flood disaster in far north Queensland which Rose described in her message.
Thank you so much, my dear friends, for letting me know that you enjoyed taking the self-test I listed a couple of days ago. I appreciate your efforts to find out the website which gives a more detailed explanation about grammar articles. Now, by visiting the site, all of you can learn more about articles.
There is another very good website on articles, and it is called Language and Learning Online:
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/grammar/articles/index.xml
There are two sections in “Articles”; one is
Using and omitting the indefinite article
and the other is
Using and omitting the definite article.
The usage of the definite article and the indefinite articles is very important, and unless we have some knowledge about them we are so afraid of writing something in English, aren’t we?
Please, please go to the site and learn everything explained in the section “Articles”.
I feel sorry about the man you discussed in your message, Alice. You did the right thing!!! You saved his life, and he will never forget your warm kindness. If I had been with you there, I couldn’t have helped giving some money to him.
These days I sometimes watch Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends on DVD with Yujin, since he loves this DVD. The story is told by Ringo Starr, a former member of the Beatles. There are a number of extremely short episodes containead in the story and they are all just interesting to me. I have never seen Thomas the Tank Engine on DVD or read in a book, but now I know why Thomas the Tank Engine is so popular among young children and their parents.
If you are looking for something for a young child, I recommend that you should buy Thomas the Tank Engine without hesitation, my dear friends.
Well, I think I have to help my daughter now. Bye-bye, my precious friends.
Dear friends,
It's almost midnight on Feb.9. I had not even opened this blog. I feel very sorry for that. As I read, I find that newly born Taiga is challenging toward his hardship. I really hope the operation in 6 months come to a big success.
As for the essay, Bev-sensei kindly checked mine once. Now I am sending the second rewrite. I really appreciate her kindness and promptness.
Plum's writings on the days in Sydney really entertains me!
I understand that a blood shared daughter has personality which is totally different from a mother. So far, Urarasan really enjoys her motherhood and life in Australia, which I can feel the lively young Japanese lady.
I watched a news of a big fire on TV. It is so hot in Melbourne and too wet in the northern part, I mean flooded. We can do nothing about the extraordinary climate... One of the victims claimed that she lost everything she had had in twenty years. I really feel sorry for them.
Good night, my precious friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
Peach, have you contacted Bev sensei already? How quick!
I also saw the news of Australian bushfires. The death toll is counting up. It’s terrible. I really wish the fire ends soon.
Another strange headline from BBC is about octuplets. When first heard the news, I couldn’t understand what had happened to the mother. Next morning, I read a Japanese newspaper article and got it. A woman in her 30s had octuplets recently. What makes her news is that she had already had 6 children. In addition, she is a single mother. Who will take care of all these kids? If this is conducted without any financial prospect, the parent is irresponsible. Reproductive technology should not be abused.
Now I’m listening to New York Mayor Bloomberg proudly honor the airplane crew who were aboard the plane that landed on the Hudson River. This is one of the best stories that have been broadcast recently.
Come to think about it, the United States is the biggest news producer. Although I watch BBC rather than CNN, a large proportion of the news covered by BBC is about the United States.
Let me change the topic, I looked up Wikipedia to find about Thomas the Tank Engine. I didn’t know the English title of Kikansha Tomasu. Thomas the Tank Engine sounds hilarious. I would like to hear a boy say this. Perhaps, it sounds cute.
A trivial fact was found. The author of the book was an Anglican minister. It caught my eyes.
Good night and pleasant dreams!
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Tuesday, February 10, 2009, today. It has been wet all day here in Sydney. The day time high was probably a little over 20 degrees.
Locals are not surprised at this type of weather change. I saw a lot of locals walking wearing a jacket or a coat and they just appeared to be used to wearing a long coat in summer. Surprise, surprise to me!!!
Are you sick and tired of doing self-tests on grammar articles?
Here is a very interesting quiz. I hope you will enjoy trying it. It is from the web site “Article Explanation”.
Question:
How many article errors can you identify in these paragraphs?
(The answers are listed below the fourth paragraph.)
１．The effects of racism can be terrible. In this story, the racism causes Desiree's husband to kick her out of house. Furthermore, racism also causes Desiree to commit the suicide because she thought that she was black. Today, interracial marriages are very common in our society and that is why outcome of marriages that fail is not so dramatic.
2. The individuals experience the countless lessons in their lifetime despite the warnings and advice that are given beforehand. Ultimately we suffer the consequences of our actions, yet we reflect on them and try to avoid making same mistakes next time we are in these situations. This is one way we learn to improve ourselves and our world.
3. As technology develops day by day in our lives, it gives us the great comfort in many ways; for example, development of Internet closely connects people around world. However, development of technology also creates many problems. One problem that exists in world today is the human cloning.
4. In short story we read, Vicky, one of main characters, shoplifts for an excitement and thrill. She enjoys adrenaline that is rushing through her body at a moment she puts a merchandise in her pocket.
Answers: 4, 4, 7, & 5.
Yoji got home much earlier from work than we expected. He remarked that his boss said that there wouldn’t be much work to do this evening so that he could leave the office any time soon. (Remember that he is working part time at a hotel downtown in Sydney?) This is Australia!!! This could happen in this country. Now he and his wife are having dinner happily together while I had already finished my dinner with Yujin.
It is almost time to take a night shower, my precious friends. I hope you are feeling great and having a lot of fun. Goodnight to you all.
Hi, ladies!!!
It's Wednesday, February 11, 2009 today. It has been cloudy and cool here in Sydney, and I just wonder where that summer heat has gone.
Have you tried the quiz I listed yesterday? I hope you enjoyed it and got excellent results.
Here is another quiz, but this one is very easy for all of you, perhaps. We did this type of exercise every month for such a long duration, probably more than 6 months, some years ago, didn’t we? We made 200 or so article questions for our monthly test by turns and sent it to the article study participants, and some days later we sent them the answers. That was a very effective way of learning how to use and not to use grammar articles. But at that time we did not know much about online instructions and self-tests, did we?
I really hope you will try this self-test, because it is easy, enjoyable and useful. The original document is listed below so that you can check your responses. The original document is from the site Sussex Language Institute http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-7-1-2-2-1.html.
Good luck with today’s self-test, my precious friends!!!
Type: a, an, the, or xxx if you think there is no article.
Britain is one of ( ) few countries in ( ) world where ( ) newspaper can be started by anyone without ( ) licence. ( ) press is not state-controlled and there is no government censorship. This does not mean, of course, that newspapers can write exactly what they like. There are laws in Britain that everyone, including newspapers, have to obey: ( ) laws of libel, for example, or about state secrets. On ( ) whole, however, ( ) press has considerable freedom.
Interest in controlling ( ) press did not really start until 1949, when ( ) Royal Commission was appointed to look into ( ) public criticism of ( )newspapers. ( ) commission decided firmly against state control, but did recommend that ( ) newspaper industry itself should set up something called ( ) Press Council as ( ) kind of watchdog. In fact it was to be ( ) watchdog with ( ) two heads, for ( ) newspapers, but at ( ) same time make sure that ( ) newspapers themselves did not lose their freedom.
( ) early Press Council consisted only of ( ) newspaper people, but this began to change in 1963 and ( ) present Council has over thirty members, ( ) half of whom are from ( ) newspaper industry, ( ) other half from ( ) general public. ( ) members include ( ) nurse, ( ) postman, ( ) university professor, ( ) retired policeman amongst ( )others. There is also ( ) chairman who is independent.
Britain is one of the few countries in the world where a newspaper can be started by anyone without a licence. The press is not state-controlled and there is no government censorship. This does not mean, of course, that newspapers can write exactly what they like. There are laws in Britain that everyone, including newspapers, have to obey: the laws of libel, for example, or about state secrets. On the whole, however, the press has considerable freedom.
Interest in controlling the press did not really start until 1949, when the Royal Commission was appointed to look into the public criticism of XXX newspapers. The commission decided firmly against state control, but did recommend that the newspaper industry itself should set up something called the Press Council as a kind of watchdog. In fact it was to be a watchdog with XXX two heads, for the newspapers, but at the same time make sure that the newspapers themselves did not lose their freedom.
The early Press Council consisted only of xxx newspaper people, but this began to change in 1963 and the present Council has over thirty members, XXX half of whom are from the newspaper industry, the other half from the general public. The members include a nurse, a postman, a university professor, a retired policeman amongst XXX others. There is also a chairman who is independent.
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