【生英語】今日の学び_20110208

Face to Face

今月になって、オンライン英会話教室を変えることを検討。

とりあえず、Language Summary 10 – 12 最後までまとめてみよう。

○anything, someone, no one, everywhere, etc
  - No one, nowhere and nothing are negative words. We use them with a positive verb:
    ○No one likes it.
    ×No one doesn’t it.
  - Everyone, everywhere and everything have a plural meaning, but we use these words with a singular verb:
    ○Everyone is watching TV.
    ×Everyone are watching TV.

○Use of articles: a, an, the, no article
  - We don’t use an article:
    to talk about people or things in general.
    ○Lots of people love buying clothes.
    ×Lots of people love buying the clothes.
    for most cities and countries.
    ○It was started in Italy.
    ×It was started in the Italy.
- We use the in some fixed phrases:
   go to the cinema/shops, in the morning/afternoon, at the weekend, the news etc

○Shopping
  - We can say pay cash or pay by cash.  ×pay with cash

○Present Simple passive; Past Simple passive
  - The person or thing doing the action is the subject of active sentences:
    The houses make a lot of money selling memorabilia.
  - We often use the passive when we are more interested in what happened to someone or something than in who did the action:
    One of George Harrison’s guitars was sold for $117,000.

○Present Perfect
  - We usually use just and already in positive sentences.
    These words fo between the auxiliary and the past participle:
    Robin Hall’s just phoned. Ted’s already done three dives.
  - We usually use yet in negative sentence and questions.
    Yet urually goes at the end of the sentence of clause:
    I haven’t done any yet. Have you sent him the cheque yet?
  - In American English we often use the Past Simple with just, yet and already:
    US: Did you do it yet?
    UK: Have you done it yet?
  - We can use the Present Perfect with this morning, this afternoon, etc.
    When it is still that time of day.

○Connecting words
  - We use first, next, then, after, after that and finally to show the order of events.
  - We usually use while with continuous verb forms:
    While he was studying to be an actor, he used to do magic tric.
  - After can be followed by subject + verb or a noun:
    He became famous after he made a TV show. They left after breakfast.
  - After that is usually followed by subject + verb:
    After the he lived without food for 44 days.