tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.comments2024-03-14T16:19:49.359+01:00Random Idea EnglishWarsaw Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comBlogger635125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-65992435031508911452024-01-29T06:48:22.695+01:002024-01-29T06:48:22.695+01:00She performed it so well that many said that it wa...She performed it so well that many said that it was perfect.<br />So well did she perform it that many said that it was perfect.<br />I think the answer is right, but not green, whyOliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08884090335826639131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-83125389773495114872024-01-29T06:45:18.562+01:002024-01-29T06:45:18.562+01:00She performed it so well that many said that it wa...She performed it so well that many said that it was perfect.<br />So well did she perform it that many said that it was perfectOliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08884090335826639131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-81414809884116684252023-12-01T05:15:37.107+01:002023-12-01T05:15:37.107+01:00The rules of grammar are derived from three main s...The rules of grammar are derived from three main sources: Logic, Latin, and Tradition. It is also worth noting that the English language has grammaticality and acceptability. So, one should be conscious of the fact once the listeners or readers are explicitly okay with the flow of the messages, then the English or grammar, in the view of the descriptivist grammar, is correct.<br />Meama, the English Pundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14845899059622887803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-68774110646386211052023-11-02T20:45:59.234+01:002023-11-02T20:45:59.234+01:00This is terrific. Thanks for sharing.This is terrific. Thanks for sharing.phoebe_englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05431626687869981819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-37905668948114315812023-10-03T17:57:23.328+02:002023-10-03T17:57:23.328+02:00Thanks for the lesson! Seldom do you find such a d...Thanks for the lesson! Seldom do you find such a detailed explanation for inversion on the Web)))pelmeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11848917746280773332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-54978640425228321782023-08-24T17:21:33.028+02:002023-08-24T17:21:33.028+02:00its really good https://random-idea-english.blogsp...its really good https://random-idea-english.blogspot.com/search?q=musicHarry Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08995394845447141843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-11171255141562493002023-08-23T06:05:06.653+02:002023-08-23T06:05:06.653+02:00awesomeawesomeTel Uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105688245148144261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-33027038431378700312023-08-20T19:26:44.260+02:002023-08-20T19:26:44.260+02:00vHi. I don't think I'd call "people a...vHi. I don't think I'd call "people arriving late" a single action. This does not refer to specific individuals, but to everyone who arrived late, whether singly or in groups, possibly over a period of time.<br />alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745900266325931376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-56329353650984761702023-06-19T22:03:28.247+02:002023-06-19T22:03:28.247+02:00Hi. Thanks for the nice comment. I did it every we...Hi. Thanks for the nice comment. I did it every weekend for about six years, and then just got "all grammered-out". It still seems to have a niche, for while there's an awful lot of ESL stuff out there, there's not a lot for advanced students.Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-38554708149603185782023-05-20T01:01:57.018+02:002023-05-20T01:01:57.018+02:00Good day.
I can see that this blog has not been u...Good day.<br /><br />I can see that this blog has not been updated in a long time, however, i'm posting to thank you. This blog has helped me a lot as a teacher. This blog is a diamond in the rough, i hope this get the recognition that deserves. tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16282275104926286462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-52784495398199105802023-04-08T17:35:14.594+02:002023-04-08T17:35:14.594+02:00Excellent!!Excellent!!Administradorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02516208696552401609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-60009123010485672072023-03-29T14:57:26.294+02:002023-03-29T14:57:26.294+02:00Hi. Thanks for the link. It may indeed be rigorous...Hi. Thanks for the link. It may indeed be rigorous, but I'm afraid it's far too academic, over-complicated and over-technical for me, and I much prefer the traditional explanations in plain English that I find in standard ELT materials.<br /><br />I would imagine this article to be of more interest to a structural linguist than to the average busy ELT teacher. For example, they spend some time dismissing such constructions as “They depended you on”, that I’ve never heard any student utter.<br /><br />As for what they call Prepositional verbs, in traditional ELT teaching these are simply verbs with dependent prepositions, just like some nouns and adjectives have dependent prepositions, and that’s what I’ll stick with.<br /><br />https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/podcasts/learning-vocabulary/learning-vocabulary-dependent-prepositions<br /><br />https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/activities-for-learners/b2g001-dependent-prepositions<br /><br />https://ieltsmaterial.com/advanced-grammar-for-ielts-dependent-prepositions/<br /><br />As the writers of the article themselves say:<br /><br />“As we saw above, there is a strong case to argue that these sorts of verbs are not truly multi-word verbs at all but examples of varying strengths of verb + preposition collocation.”<br /><br />So, I’m not quite sure what they are doing in an even more impenetrable article on so-called Multi-word verbs. In all the teaching materials I use, they are seen as quite separate from phrasal verbs, or they would call them, multi-word verbs.<br /><br />And as I think said in my original article, by far the biggest problem students have with phrasal verbs is meaning. Problems with structure are less common, and this can largely be dealt with by a “separable or not” approach, a concept most students grasp quite easily, or on a verb-by-verb basis.<br /><br />Occasionally, structural linguists come up with a category that’s really useful, such as determiners. But generally speaking I think it’s a case of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. The traditional terms phrasal verbs (with their division into four types), and dependent prepositions are relatively easy for students to understand, and have served us well for years, and I see no need to change. <br />Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-65186787427045701102023-03-24T01:55:49.390+01:002023-03-24T01:55:49.390+01:00I'm by no means an expert on prepositional ver...I'm by no means an expert on prepositional verbs, and am also frustrated by a lot of errors, contradiction, and confusion I see in the materials I encounter out there - especially in dictionaries, which seem to err on the side of calling tons of things phrasal verbs when they are simply not - but the best material on this topic that I've found, the clearest and most rigorous-seeming, is on the ELTConcourse website, which argues that prepositional verbs can be seen as "strongly collocating" verb + preposition combinations. They use the example of "suffer from," as in, "He suffered from a cold." That's not a phrasal verb - neither part is being used to mean anything outside its usual meaning on its own - but we also can't replace the prepositional phrase, "from a cold," with any other variant, in the way we can replace the "from London" in "he came from London" with "He came to London," "He came near London," "He came around London," He came through London." Suffer + From have a stronger relationship than most verb + preposition combinations, while still not being a phrasal verb. That makes sense. Check this out... https://www.eltconcourse.com/training/inservice/verbs/mwvs.html#prepAllan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-79843984381944134282023-02-08T02:03:40.510+01:002023-02-08T02:03:40.510+01:00almost imposaiboe 3rs excercise Lolalmost imposaiboe 3rs excercise LolJonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00014689513951128138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-85934177036889461712023-02-04T05:16:06.356+01:002023-02-04T05:16:06.356+01:00thanksthanksMr Nathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741603574839587130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-44555861134021629622023-01-25T12:21:58.157+01:002023-01-25T12:21:58.157+01:00Hi, Raihan. I don't think so, no. Take this se...Hi, Raihan. I don't think so, no. Take this sentence from the first exercise:<br /><br />"We have just hired Samantha, who will be looking after HR from now on"<br /><br />The first part of the sentence makes sense on its own. We know who the person is, Samantha. She doesn't need to be defined. The relative clause adds extra information: for me it is really just a non-defining clause that develops the story a bit further. :)Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-51773320257281388652022-12-28T10:05:09.047+01:002022-12-28T10:05:09.047+01:00That is, defining clause with comma is coordinate...That is, defining clause with comma is coordinate clause, isn't it?Raihanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14451874189365320938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-45428210832029727962022-11-07T16:44:49.526+01:002022-11-07T16:44:49.526+01:00Hi mani. This is really only a test page for my ow...Hi mani. This is really only a test page for my own purposes. However, I've just tried it, and it seems to be working OK. :)Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-58573636207873897892022-11-06T13:44:26.320+01:002022-11-06T13:44:26.320+01:00not workingnot workingmanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09701291440195951172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-7020822342325213742022-09-20T09:18:21.657+02:002022-09-20T09:18:21.657+02:00hyhybloginghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08526402742986541038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-23340022565591600172022-09-10T14:02:15.618+02:002022-09-10T14:02:15.618+02:00Hi. Thanks for the comment. I would tend to agree ...Hi. Thanks for the comment. I would tend to agree with you, as it would seem do most dictionaries. And it would certainly be advisable for students to follow suit.<br /><br />However, my main source, English Phrasal Verbs in Use (Cambridge), gives it as both, and having learnt from teaching English that "always" and "never" are dangerous words, I've given them the benefit of the doubt (but with question marks to express my doubts). <br /><br />I think I've already dealt with this point in the second paragraph of my introduction.Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-29323239125736292852022-09-08T19:14:46.755+02:002022-09-08T19:14:46.755+02:00Add this to your list of always separated phrasal ...Add this to your list of always separated phrasal verbs: "ask somebody out"tastybrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038429633532461770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-66693025987162695832022-09-01T12:44:09.678+02:002022-09-01T12:44:09.678+02:00:):)Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-2975203736603424132022-08-30T09:46:05.355+02:002022-08-30T09:46:05.355+02:00Not only have I learned inversions with your post,...Not only have I learned inversions with your post, but also the topics chosen by you were very enjoyable. Thanks ;)Lunaprofehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16338292271767096504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-51776888647718083182022-08-08T19:00:49.793+02:002022-08-08T19:00:49.793+02:00Thanks so much for your kind comments. Glad you li...Thanks so much for your kind comments. Glad you like it. Your name makes me think of my home country, Scotland. :)Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.com