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My friends, checking out your answers on my grammar tests and reading your blogs, I noticed many of you not know the difference between FEW and A FEW, LITTLE and A LITTLE. Besides, one of our learners asked me to post the blog about these confusing words. So, today I will tell you about them.

I believe you all know  we use many/few/a few with countable nouns while we use much/little/a little with non-countable ones. These words as well as some others (a couple, some, several, a number of, a lot o

                                        The guardian of LIFE—ozonosphere

                                                     Xuefeng

                                                   August 15, 2002

      Up in the sky between the space 20 kilometers and 30 kilometers from the earth’s surface, there exists a sky-blue transparent sphere. It is the ozonosphere in the stratosphere of the aerosphere, which is the guardian of life on earth. Without it, the cosmic rays, especially the ultraviolet emitt

That was a nice evening.  I got up and went to the kitchen to make coffee in my desi way.  I first put a cup of milk in a pot and put it on the electric burner.  Let it boil.  When it has been boiled, I put one full spoon of Nescafe into it and let it boil.  After one or two minutes, it the coffee grain completely mixed and dissolved into the milk.  My coffee was ready.  I poured into my coffee mug and took it outside into my gallery.  I put the mug on the small round table and sat down on my ch

Once this conversation happened between a woman and her house maid. The house maid came from a remote area.

Woman: 'Sujana, do you know where is my raincoat?'

Sujana: ' Mam, what is this raincoat?'

Woman: ' Oh...it is a thing which we should put on when we have rain.'

sujana: 'Okay, mam, I got your number and what's its colour?'

Woman:' it is  deep pink coloured and most probably I put it in my closet.'

Sujana:' Okay, I will try to find it, no worries.'

Next day Sujana found the raincoat along with sum

                                                                         Xuefeng

Is your nose too big? What about your lips... are they too thin? Do you think your behind should be bigger? As you know, nowadays everything can be fixed, just one must have ehm… big money to get involved with this modern "hobby". Honestly speaking, sometimes I don't believe my eyes, when I see on the Internet pictures of people, who became plastic surgery addicts. In fact I don't know whether I should pity them or should be angry with the doctors, who are able to destroy appearance of so many p

One day a little mosquito went for his first flight. After coming back safely, parents and friends asked. 

"How was the flight?"

He replied " It was good, While flying, all human beings were encourgaing me to fly more by clapping".

This is known as correct attitude. I think I said enough about attitude. 

Thanks for reading.....

The whole solar system has been set up especially for man

Xuefeng

August 15, 2002
We can see, as mentioned above, the distances between the celestial bodies, the sizes of different celestial bodies, and their speeds of movement have all been accurately and meticulously designed and arranged in strict accordance with the scientific laws of the survival and development of matter, with not an iota of coincidence. Some people may argue, “The sun and the earth are extremely important to mankind, but th

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Yes, I'm going to talk about 'the passive of perfective verbs'. 

The passive or passive voice is formed with the different tenses of 'be' and the past particle of a verb, for example, we can say 'My bike was stolen'. You may wonder if you can say 'My bike is stolen'?

Good question! My answer is yes. If you use the past tense 'was', you're emphasizing the action - you mean your bike was stolen by someone, yesterday or any day in the past. When you say 'My bike is stolen', you just mean the 'result

Hi All, 

We are all leaving in a digital world. Whatever may be the advance in technology, the human thinking pattern remains same for centuries. Yes education made a lot of difference in thinking pattern. 

Even today, most of our lives are controlled by our own past. It will not help either present or future but it will diminish your present as well as future. Past is a experience, We need to take that experience positively to make our future better. 

You should change all your past into positive

                   Great storms, typhoon, and thunder and lightning are deliberately choreographed

                                                               Xuefeng

                                                          August 15, 2002

      The occurrence of the great storms, typhoon, and thunder and lightning is due to the existence of the moon.

      Without gales, the convection of hot and cold airs on earth will be impossible. The chilly and sweltering weathers will continue for longer

Before you react sarcastically, let me remind you that we are dealing with plants here. So have you killed your plants unintentionally but you felt guilty towards them? If your answer is yes, then you’re not alone.

Most gardeners especially the new ones have committed this crime plenty of times. Even expert horticulturists have admitted themselves feeling abashed by this dilemma. But the good news is that there are simple ways to prevent it from happening again in the future.

Firstly, the most com

It is based on a real incident.

In a Village, two friends lived. One named Raju, he is a carpenter another named Ramu, he is a car driver.  Raju and Ramu were friends for many years. They were happily lived in the village. 

Ramu, the driver, used to come home daily for lunch at afternoon. He drove car always in front of Raju's carpenter shop. The moment Raju sees Ramu's car, Raju will stand middle of the road. Ramu drive car very fast and apply sudden break. Same time Raju will jump from the middl

Yes, it's good news for those who have problems adding comments or new blog posts. 

I take my hat off to Josef and his technical team, who managed to find what was wrong with the adding and to solve the problem. 

Try adding a comment or a new blog post to see if it works for you too!

On 9th April, United Airlines, which is an American airline company, had to make four passengers get off an airplane because of overbooking, and they said they selected four passengers at random by a computer. However it was said that it might be racial discrimination because they were all Asian people. The airplane had planned to fly in the U.S, so there must have been many non-Asian people in the airplane.

The three passengers got off the airplane without protesting but one person didn't get

Dear all.

Today is a big holiday for Christians. But other religion enjoy this opportunity to go out of town or return to

their hometown.

I had period so I didn't pray. My sister and her husband had arrived here from Taiwan.

I didn't expect any souvenirs from them. They watched Coldplay there.Now it's easy to order their tshirt

online. 

Yesterday I was upset because I didn't have enough money to buy my fave cds.

I must save money for rainy days (urgent needs). I want this holiday to be over because I'm

My friends, you are really very helpful in all my researches and innovations! Thanks to your comments, I gave up the idea of inventing the pills preventing us from being ourselves. But I have come up with another invention that seems to be useful for the humanity in gereral and for each of us in particular.

My new invention is the medicine for bigotry.

Well, I don't mean our believes, persuasions, customs, traditions, etc. I mean fanatism, zealotry of any kind that makes people deaf, blind, narrow