- Sep 17 Thu 2020 10:14
Stative Verbs 4: Do you like this guy?
- Sep 16 Wed 2020 08:41
Stative Verbs 3: I trust you, but ....
- Sep 15 Tue 2020 08:49
Stative Verbs 2: Who do they belong to?
- Sep 14 Mon 2020 09:48
Stative Verbs 1: Can you smell the coffee?
- Sep 11 Fri 2020 08:32
Vocabulary: So, What’s a ‘Molotov Cocktail’?
- Sep 10 Thu 2020 09:01
Vocabulary: Some ‘Self’ Words [Part II]
In the last post, I looked at words in the form ‘self-…..’ – for example, ‘self-centered. That little line ‘-’ in the middle of the word is called a ‘hyphen’, and joins two words into one bigger one – that is, the words are ‘hyphenated’. In the case of ‘self-centred’, you could also call it a ‘compound adjective’.
- Sep 09 Wed 2020 14:51
Vocabulary: Some 'Self' Words [Part I]
In the last post, I looked at the English verbs ‘do’ and ‘make’, and the idea of collocation (= putting the right words together). Let’s change the topic to some vocabulary work.
- Sep 08 Tue 2020 09:08
Chinglish 4 (Part II): 'make' and 'do'
In the last post, I looked at the English verbs ‘do’ and ‘make’. Say in Chinese:
- Sep 07 Mon 2020 11:23
Chinglish 4 (Part I): 'make' & 'do'
In the last post, I looked at (what I call) a ‘Chinglish’ Verb.
- Sep 06 Sun 2020 10:35
Chinglish 3: 'live' & 'stay'
In the last post, I looked at (what I call) a ‘Chinglish’ Verb.