Apodo

25 Jun 2009     

Bruna Dutra

I have to say I totally disagree with Apodo in the sense of what some may have regarded as "bad English" one day, and is now Grammatically correct and overall, more used than the correct grammar way, shouldn �t be considered. If most grammar books say something, but in every movie your students watch, they see the opposite, who loses credibility? You or the "actors"? hehehe For this matter of "ME OR I", the simple explanation of SUBJECT and OBJECT difference does the job, most of the times. But then, there �s always doubt from many students who don �t wish to know the grammar as teachers would, and also those who are simply curious as to knowing why (?) things are the way they are, but don �t want looong rules and explanations. For example: you explain to your students: "Between you and me" is correct. Mainly because between is a preposition, and takes the "accusative case". Then you will have to explain what the heck accusative case is, which in my opinion, is of no student �s interest, since most don �t even know in ther mother language. If you explain that after prepositions the OBJECT pronoun is always used, it �s a good way to sum it up. However, when one of your students see: - Forgive me, Father, for I �ve sinned; they will see "for I", and think either the speaker or their teacher was wrong. You just need to keep their mind open to the idea that a language is NOT an exact science and therefore cannot be seen as a straight line. In that and many other cases, for is not a preposition, as they �re used to see it, it �s a conjunction, with the same meaning of "because I �ve sinned". Another thing is after THAN, and in my opinion, the good old examples will do just fine. She loves him more than I (more than I do, than I love him) She loves me more than me (more than she loves me) And how do you explain to a student who wants to post his pic on the net how to write the caption: - Me at the concert; or - I at the concert. I found this on the net: There is no definite answer. Both are possible. You have to ask youself what you actually mean with the labels you put on the pictures. You are persumably using some kind of pattern or rule. For example you write what the pictures shows: "[It shows] my daughter and me in San-Fransisco." or "[This is a photo from when] my daughter and I [were] in San-Fransisco." And I looooved it! It says it all. In such informal things as a photo caption, and it depends on what you want to say. TO SUM UP - As my personal advice, always try to be flexible to what it �s on the books and on the streets. Not every student wants to become a teacher or walking grammar book, like we do! eheheh - They just want to learn HOW TO SPEAK! BTW: My student asked why he listened "try and do that" and not "try to do that", and I had to say that it �s just used TOO. If you have sticked with me till here, thanks! Best regards, guys!

25 Jun 2009     

dellcomputer

27 Jun 2009     

ajaaron

30 Jun 2009