Friday, September 14, 2012

Countable-and-Uncountable-nouns-exercises

Transitive & Intransitive verbs

Transitive verbs คือกริยา ที่ต้องการกรรม เช่น


Cows eat grass.

Richard cut his finger.

The teacher taught his class.

John read a book.

Margaret sang a song.


Intransitive verbs กริยาที่ไม่ต้องการกรรม เช่น


The dog growled.

The rat died.

The flowers are red.

I will go to Ustanbul next week.

Birds fly.


Transitive means 'going over'.

Object: nouns or pronouns

Sunday, September 2, 2012

When to say good morning ...

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=287453



Hi there!

Since I have to give a presentation, I was wondering whether any of you could give me some clear guidelines on how to determine when to say "Good morning / afternoon / evening / night everyone", i.e. what time each one begins and ends. I suppose (an hope) I won't have to use "night" at all. Here's my assumption:

Good morning:5 AM to 12 PM or 00:00 to 24:00
Good afternoon: 12 PM to 6 PM (?)
Good evening:6 PM to 10 PM
Good night: 10 PM onwards (or when you go to sleep, in fact ,or say goodbye for the rest of the day)
Since I have to give a presentation, I was wondering whether any of you could give me some clear guidelines on how to determine when to say "Good morning / afternoon / evening / night everyone", i.e. what time each one begins and ends. I suppose (an hope) I won't have to use "night" at all. Here's my assumption:

Good morning:5 AM (if the presentation starts at 5:00 A.m. However, if you meet someone at 2:00 A.M. to go fishing, it's still "Good Morning") to 12 PM or 00:00 to 24:00 (5:00 A.M. is 0500)
Good afternoon: 12 PM to 6 PM (?)
Good evening:6 PM to 10 PM (upon meeting someone up until 11:59 P.M)
Good night: 10 PM onwards (only upon parting for the evening) (or when you go to sleep, in fact ,or say goodbye for the rest of the day)


Thank you!!!

http://www.english-test.net/forum/sutra289476.html
Hello everyone,

I have read some articles about Greeting and to be honest, I am confused about the usages of these expressions.

One source says the following:

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM --> AFTERNOON
8:00 PM - 4:00 AM --> EVENING
4:00AM - 12:00PM --> MORNING

that means the day has been divided into 3 parts (8 hours each) !!

Another source suggets the follwoing:

EARLY MORNING -----------> 12:01 am - 5:59 am
MORNING -----------------> 6:00 am - 11:59 am
NOON --------------------> 12:00
AFTERNOON --------------> 12:01 pm - 5:59 pm
EVENING -----------------> 6:00 pm - 7:59 pm
NIGHT -------------------> 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm
MIDNIGHT ---------------> 12:00

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

grammar/countable_uncountable-exercises

Exercise for countable noun an uncount n

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php


  1. The children are playing in the garden.
  2. I don't like milk.
  3. I prefer tea.
  4. Scientists say that the envirenment is threatened by pollution.
  5. My mother uses butter to prepare cakes.
  6. There are a lot of windows in our classroom.
  7. We need some glue to fix this vase.
  8. The waiters in this restaurant are very professional.
  9. My father drinks two big glasses of water every morning.
  10. The bread my mother prepares is delicious.
  11. Drivers must be careful; the road is slippery.
  12. Some policemen are organizing road traffic to avoid any accidents.
  13. I bought three bottles of mineral water for our picnic.
  14. I'd like some juice please!
  15. Successful condidates will join the camp later this year.
  16. A rise in oil prices is inevitable since there is more and more worl demand for energy.
  17. The exercises on this website are interesting.
  18. Dehydrated babies must drink a lot of water.
  19. Adult illiterates learn through a special government programme.
  20. I met some nice people when I was walking along the beach.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases

Prepositions
A preposition is a single word. It sometimes refers to a direction. Some examples are:
  • on
  • in
  • at
  • under
  • across
Prepositional Phrases
A prepositional phrase is a group of words (usually 3 to 5 words) that begins with a preposition. Examples:
  • in a yellow house
  • over the large hill
  • at the small pond
A prepositional phrase must always contain a preposition, but it may also contain one or more of the following:
  • article (a, an, the)
  • noun (some examples are: house, hill, pond)
  • pronoun (some examples are: him, her, them)
  • adjective (some examples are: yellow, large, pretty)
A prepositional phrase can never contain any one of the following elements:
  • subject
  • verb
  • object
Many prepositional phrases will contain an object TO THE PREPOSITION, but not an object of the main clause of the sentence. 
Example #1
He was mowing the grass around the house.
Explanation: "Grass" is the object of the main clause of the sentence, but "house" is the object of the prepositional phrase "around the house," and therefore, not part of the main clause.
Example #2
She ran the race with some friends.
Explanation: "Race" is the object of the main clause of the sentence, but "friends" is the object of the prepositional phrase "with some friends," and therefore, not part of the main clause.