My dear friends! Being a professional teacher of English grammar, I decided to start this group to help you improve your knowledge of the subject. Many members asked me to do it and I do feel like that! So, I am planning to start a few discussions where you will be able to ask me questions or to have some practice. I'd also like to involve my husband, a native speaker, who is supposed to be helpful. So, how do you feel about such a group?
Rewrite into a passive sentence: "You haven't given the gift to Pete"
Is it not "The gift hasn't been given to Pete by you" ? I was marked down for writing my answer as such instead of "The gift to Pete hasn't been given by you". How is it any different?
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It would be very kind of you if you fixed the text below and gave a feadback on it.
I live in a single-storey detached traditional-pamiri house in a village. There is no apartment building whatsoever in the village. Two and three-storey buildings have been built recently there. The old houses are usually terraced or semi-detached. The modern ones are usually detached and have courtyards.
As I live in the very remote area of central Asia and due to earthquake, it is impossible to build high-rises in this area. Even in the towns the highest building is six-storey. The emergence of multi-storey buildings in the towns has had a huge impact on the life of the people of the region. The dwellers of the majority of the apartment buildings are those who are living in these towns temporarily as students, workers, etc. The majority of the permanent citizens have their traditional houses. In addition, some of the temporary citizens sometimes live in converted studio apartments. Duplez apartments are not too common in these towns. In addition, the suburbs of these towns are the same as villages.
As I mentioned above I live in a traditional house and it has a living room with lots of part, a kitchen several bedrooms and a courtyard. We usually use our living room for many traditional events.
In these traditional houses, the living room is spacious. It houses more the 50 people! It has a traditional hole in the ceiling, which also serves as a source of light. This hole also serves for keeping the room cool in the summer and preventing the room from getting stuffy. This hole can be adjust in accordance with the season so this room is not drafty. I do not think these traditional houses can be cramped. Because if we shrink it, it will not be able to house the same amount of people and in this case we cannot consider it traditional.
The feature that I like the most about my house is the neighborhood. It is surrounded by nature. However, it is quiet it is trendy. There are also many nomadic people in the middle of nowhere in central Asia. But their housing differs from one another very much.
Dear teachers I think you are well and happy to some extent.
I will appreciate if you could help me in writing a scenario on a topic in English. It's something new in my country and I'm not so efficient in it.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Many regards from Greece.
Anastasia
Teacher Dan, thank you so much for the link. :)
Yes, I have checked the article on other source, it was typo.
Thank you once again. ^^
Dear Onee, there are two different methods of teaching: top-down and bottom-up. Here is the link
http://classroom.synonym.com/difference-between-topdown-teaching-bo...
LEST sounds like a typo. Are you sure it is not TEST?
Teachers,
I'd like to ask about this sentence from an article. I don't understand the bold words. Hope to hear your enlightenment. Thank you in advance. :)
"The top down, teach-and-lest method, in which learning is motivated by a system of rewards and punishments rather than by curiosity or by any real desire to know, is well designated for indoctrination and obedience training but not much else."
Dear Teacher Danny, Bijan, SNR
Very happy to see your appreciation. Thanks a lot.
I could explain it only because "BEEN" is a basic grammar portion.
Cannot explain Intermediate or Advanced grammar questions :)
Dear Simran! I realize what collocations you mean but what is your problem with them? First, I'd like to say that the first noun is usually singurar like
5 dollar note;
100 mile distance;
a table spoon.
And what do you mean by 'children day"? Do you mean November 20? We call it Universal Children's Day.
Wow, dear Wolf! Great explanatins! I have nothing to add!
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