For those of you that has a Facebook account, I'm sure once in a while you will be caught by surprise when certain 'Memory' being shared by your friends, or even being reminded by Facebook. Yesterday was one of those days for me. While browsing through my Facebook, I was taken aback by a 2011 photo shared by Facebook.
Oh God! It was such a major throw back for me. It made me want to flip through the old photo albums (yes, to the young people, we the older generations have the hard copies of our
* I made up this conversation . It's NOT REAL. I just tried to use some of the discourse markers in a conversation, not a paragraph or an essay :) *
Host: Good morning all :) I'd like to welcome back my lovely friend ( belle ) , how are you doing ?
Me: I'm pretty good thanks. What about you?
Host : I'm alright , thank you. So, what brought you back on this site ?
Me : Well, I really don't know. I've been up all night long ( it's 6:45 am now haha ) and I thought I could do something fun online or hav
Discourse markers? Unfamiliar to you, right? In fact, you use discourse markers more often than you may think.
A discourse marker is a word or phrase that is used to connect or organize what you say or write, for example, 'so', 'OK', 'right' and 'by the way/incidentally' are often used as discourse markers. Some people might call them 'linking words' or 'linking adverbials', though.
You may be familiar with the following discourse markers: as far as...is concerned, on the other hand, however, si
Time goes so fast, I remember that day, I was in the hospital and really felt death because of hurt. Now, I have you – 14 kilograms- yes, you want to become MyEC’s model then you don’t eat too much. Day by day, you don’t gain your weight, only your legs are longer…longer…hope, our club will open a “beauty competition”. I’m sure, you will win the prize “ Miss Youngest of MyEC” kakaka….
Taking care of you is a hard work. I must forget all my favorite, my habit…. High heels, nice dr
I had been away from MyEC for quite a long time and now that I'm back I'm very much disappointed by the number of the mistakes I make when I write something. My English wasn't good before I joined MyEC many years back but then I improved my English language skills to a degree that I was able to score 8 out of 9(btw, I consider that score more of a miracle and a blessing of God then a true reflection of my writing skill!) in writing section of IELTS Academic Test when I took the test about 2 and
I'm writing on my mobile phone/cell phone - I'm on vacation and away from my computer.
This is the first time I've written a blog on my cellphone. I hope this blog looks natural on your computer.
It can be so challenging to write a blog on your mobile - unless you're familiar with texting in English on a cellphone.
You're writing on a smaller screen you're unfamiliar with - without the supporting software installed on your computer. And, the Internet connection may not be as good.
It seems the m
My dear friends! Today I am up to no good! Ha-ha! I am going to offer you one more writing challenge with the idiom TO BE UP TO! It is not as easy as you may think because this idiom may mean different things depending on a noun following it. Of course I am not going to keep you in the dark and will explain you a few uses of this expression.
to be up to something/tricks/mischief - to plan some unexpected action we shouldn't do.
to be up to high doh - to feel nervous, to worry.
to be up to no good
Teacher Expector gave this challenge..And it made me crazy…: to correct mitran..lol…I wonder…why he didn’t use these words : to correct mitran’s mistake. If he used like that then nothing happens. Now, because of him…I will understand the word “correct mitran” with another meaning.
(“to correct” is : to repair, to fix.)
I love my face, body, skin…I love all. Although those are not perfect. But I accept it. Sometimes, I look at the mirror and find out… I have a pretty face lol..lol
Friends this is my first post on EnglishClub hope you'd like it
Tomorrow is my birthday and also my first exam of final term. We friends have this tradition of throwing each other surprise birthday parties since last year. Today in lunch break I tried to read their faces whether they have something up their sleeves or not,but couldn’t figure out anything as they were all busy talking only about tomorrow’s paper. Either they are quite good at keeping things secret or I am going to lose this
Yes, we encourage you to help (to) correct each other. I hope you'll agree it's worth it!
When you try to correct each other/one another, you should make sure you really know the ropes. Leave what you aren't sure about uncorrected, for example, if you're not sure about 'part of something', then don't assume the sentence 'Making mistakes is part of learning' is incorrect.
I suggest you look it up in a dictionary if you're not sure about a collocation, a word or an idiom. Your English improves whil
My dear friends! As I have nothing to do while my wife is so busy swearing Russian at the construction workers repairing our Kiev apartment, I have decided to post a grammar test using Tanya’s materials. Please, be sure, I have consulted her and will do it any time I am not sure how to explain your mistakes. I think you already know such tests. I am posting 15 sentences. There is at least one mistake in each sentence, but there may be more. The mistakes are not underlined. So, your task is to f
Yes, it's an idiom which means 'have a secret idea or plan that you intend to use later' or 'have a surprise plan or solution (to a problem)'.
You may have something good or bad in your sleeve, for example, you may try to cheat by having a card hidden in your sleeve:) I hope you have something great for a puzzling problem or a situation, though.
You could write a short paragraph by using the idiom - it can be fun if you really get the picture. Here's a sample paragraph for you:
I'm waiting for Ex
Yes, you got it - it means 'it's too difficult for me to understand'. Hey, don't get me wrong - it's not that 'what you wrote is all Greek to me':)
In fact, I'm trying to learn more about medical terminology (medicine English) - a mouthful! Some of the terms are just too long or too difficult to pronounce - they are driving me up the wall!
Some of the words are just Greek while some are derived from Latin. It can be so hard to memorize them - unless you've got an amazing or insanely good memory!
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My friends! I'd like to propose you one more writing task. Analyzing the results of my "American" tests I have decided to start this challenge. First of all, I'd like to say that a date/dating is a very positive word. Even 12-14 year old kids date. Males ask felames to go out with them just to have fun, to communicate and to learn more about each other. But if we speak about adults, nobody knows the end! Ha-ha! So, my task is the following. I will give you a list of American words you should us
My friends! Taking part in Onee's game "Guess my Word" has just prompted me an idea of this challenge. Well, my idea is the following. I will give you the list of words describing our appearances and characters and will ask you to describe some person. It would be nice if you describe not only positive but also negative personalities, men as well as women. So, your creativity is limited only with the lenght of your compositions for us to be able to correct your mistakes. So, here is the list of
Did you read Josef's 'MyEC Recommended Features' for this month? I hope so - if you've just checked your email.
Don't miss the 'Englishclub Grammar' recommended by Josef. I'd recommend 'Grammar Help Desk', where you can ask any question related to English grammar, and Alan, a native English teacher, will help answer it.
You may find the 'desk' useful, especially when you're unsure about a sentence you wrote or written by others. Or, when somebody just corrected you, and you doubt whether the c
I have had a surprise birthday party two weeks ago. I was overwhelmed by the love, kind and care my friends showed me. Staff were asked to go to work on Saturday to catch up some paper work. When I walked near the School I saw all my friends were gathered at the car park. They told me we just planned to go to bowling. I was confused and no one ready to say any thing. I never been to bowling before. But I managed to score good. It was a lovely surprise. Then my friends took me to a restaurant,
ann remarked on my comment to her blog 'alphabets' like this:
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Hi Mishaikh, your alphabet includes so many words I don't know. Do you want a writing challenge? kindly write a paragraph containing all the word in your list (if you please). I think this writing challenge is so hard.
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I have bidden to that. and here is my bid:
I was sitting on the mat in my gallery fixed on joists, of my house made of bamboo near the dam, facing the chalk white horizon where an airplane was moving to somewhe
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT
Words embroidered on the blank paper sprinkling from the fountain of brain, conscious and subconscious turn in to the reflections of thoughts, for thoughts, ‘the sky is the limit’ they are infinite. So you can say a writer can write whatever he wants and or talk about anything he likes. So as the aspect of life ‘love’ talking, speaking, writing about love is limitless provided one has sensitive mind and touchy heart. Nobody can deny they do not like this side of life and h
