Re post: Big Things Starts from Smaller Ones

When I was in high school, I thought that prepositions were just single-worded part of speech that is why they are really dangerous especially in academic writing. I found out that there were some kind called "complex prepositions" that were not single-worded one. Complex prepositions are a word group that functions as a single preposition that may be two-word or three-word.

Some examples are:

  In addition to single-word preposition, there are others called complex preposition.

  She is a great composer  as well as  a great Musical Director.

  There are garbage  in front of  the door.

DID YOU KNOW THAT. .?

Some English & Language Trivia to brighten up your day!

• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters
  mt.
• Los Angeles’s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
  Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be
  abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
• The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe. 
• The word set has more definitions than any other word in the
  English language.
• Underground is the only word in the English language that
  begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• There are only four words in the English language which end
  in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, andhazardous.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
  screeched.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the
  Oxford English Dictionary,
  is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  The only other word with the same amount of letters is
  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that
  contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
  therein the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Does the sporting goods store REI count too?
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
  left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
• The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different
  ways.The following sentence contains them all “A rough-coated,
  dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
  after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• The word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase
  “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

From: http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2006/language-learning/english-trivia/

Happy new year everyone!

Mikko Ong (08-07976)

Time Well Wasted

> English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

If you are bored and don't have anything better to do, I suggest you read this poem. I found it surprisingly fun. I swelled with pride when I saw difficult words that I knew how to pronounce, and I searched the dictionary in defeat when I had no idea what some of the words meant. I had fun reading this poem and learned some new words along the way. For me, that is a perfect definition for "a time well wasted".

-Jonathan Kenn S. Palo

How To Study

Good evening brilliant classmates! Since our first long exam is coming, I want to share this site that can help us in studying. It contain some tips on how to prepare for exams. Though everyone's learning strategy is different, I still urge you to try this one. Good luck and God bless. :)

http://ayurveda.hubpages.com/hub/Tricks-to-tackle-exams

Quiz on Phrasal Verbs

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-quiz.htm


Next week, we will be dealing with phrasal verbs. I am quite sure that most of us are still familiarizing ourselves with the numerous phrasal verbs in the language for our upcoming quiz. I think that one good way to test our knowledge about the said topic is to practice. I posted a site where we can take a short quiz related to the subject matter. Good luck to us!

Practice Prepostions

Since we recently discuss about prepositions, I want to share a link where we can practice its usage. I hope this would help us in reviewing for our first long exam that would include prepositions.

Here is the link: http://www.grammaruntied.com/prepositions/preppractice.html


KYLE PASCUAL

It is a picture got by my sister at SM Supermarket Kadiwa. Instead of "brewed coffee", the storekeeper obviously made it into "broad coffee". Maybe it is just a strategy to attract consumers, however, "broad coffee" is wrong.

Punctuation Marks

Hi classmates! I found these photos very entertaining and educational on Tumblr. Since punctuation marks are very important in constructing our sentences, I would like to share these photos with you! The usage of quotation marks are also stated there. Enjoy reading! :)

Grammar Quizzes

Hello. I want to share this link. It contains a lot of exercises that may help you to improve your English. It covers most of our topics in English 1. I hope you can use it as a reference or reviewer since our first exam is just around the corner. Enjoy.

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/

An Invitation

These were taken from my invitation of the PPC's Annual Christmas Party that was held last year.

"Last and Final Draw."
One can use either the word "last" or "final" because these words denote a same meaning; furthermore, this sentence shows redundancy. This must be rephrased to: Third and Final Draw.

"Special appreciation & recognition to Parish Apostoles who have served the longest."
The word "apostoles" is not an English word; hence, it should be italicized. These awardees are still serving as apostoles in our parish up to present, so present perfect progressive must be used. The adjective "longest" refers only to single entity, but there are more than one awardees. Therefore, the sentence should be rephrased this way: Special appreciation & recognition to the Parish Apostoles who have been serving for a long time.

Different Uses of Could

• Could is the past tense of can.   

                When I was young, I could lift heavy objects.

• To make polite request and to answer this request(Can is more certain than could).

               Could you please help me.(I could , if I finish this earlier.)

• To express possibility

               It could rain today.

Common Errors in English Usage

Hey guys i found a site that i want to share with you. It contains a list of common errors in English usage. I recommend that you visit the site. The difference between cleanup and clean up is an example of a common error that I saw in the site “Cleanup” is usually a noun: “the cleanup of the toxic waste site will cost billions of dollars.” “Clean” is a verb in the phrase “clean up”: “You can go to the mall after you clean up your room.”

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

Homographs

Homographs are words that have the same spelling but differ in meaning, origin and sometimes pronunciation. These are confusing especially when one is not familiar with the word.

Example:

• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

Bass- a kind of fish

Bass- a deep voice or tone/ lower in musical pitch.

Reference: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-homographs.html

NAUGHTY PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions are like little devils that ruin our sentence compositions if used improperly. They are very sneaky and can bring us into trouble when not use properly. The only thing that can save a person from  such misfortune is by practicing REALLY REALLY hard! I found a link that corrected some of my common mistakes in using prepositions. I hope this will help you a lot too! :)

http://158.132.164.193/FYP/html/preposEx.htm


STEPHANIE BERNARDO

Phrasal Verb

Phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb or an adverb, or a verb with both and adverb and a preposition. There are so many examples of phrasal verbs, and there are also some rules to be followed. I browsed into this site and I thought it would be helpful for students like me in learning.

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html

Yo, Banana Boy

We Filipinos love to twist words and read them backwards. In the English language, some words don’t need twisting you just have to read them backwards. An example is, gag. Such words are called palindromes however palindromes are not only limited to words but also to sentences, and phrases.