Learning English by Uncle Teng

Archive for November, 2009

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  • Active and Passive voice
    • 4.1 Active and Passive voice
    • Active and Passive Voice ( Sentences without agents )
    • Active and Passive Voice (Perfect tense & modals)
  • Adjective
    • Word-order for adjectives.
    • Adjective of Comparisons
    • Adjectives ending with ‘ed’ & ‘ing’
    • Confusing Adjectives
    • Country adjectives
  • Adverbial phrases with present participles
  • Adverbs of Frequency
  • Article “a, an, the”
    • To use “the” or not
  • Base Form
    • ‘ing..’ Form
    • Passive and Active Form
  • Collective nouns
  • Commas
  • Comprehension
    • How to read and understand
    • Reading for TOEFL
    • Strategies for reading
  • Conditional ” IF ”
    • First Conditional
    • Second Conditional
    • Third Conditional
    • Zero Conditional
  • Conjunctions “Although” and “though”
  • Contradictory proverbs
  • Direct and Indirect Speech (Positive and negative questions)
  • Gerunds
    • Gerunds and Present Participles
  • Homophones
    • emigrate or immigrate
    • Refrain and restrain
    • Same but so different
  • How to to use “and” & “but”
  • How to use “comma”, “and” & “but”
  • Idioms : Colours
  • Idioms Stick
    • Idiom exercises
      • Choose the correct idiom
    • An old grandfather
    • Choose the idiom
    • Eating corn on the cob
    • Idiom 1
    • Idiom 2
    • Idioms (100 idioms)
    • Idioms – Little Red Riding Hood
    • Idioms 1
    • Idioms in a horror story
    • Idioms: Upper-Intermediate
    • Laksa Asam woman
    • Matters of the Heart
    • Teh tarik man
    • The Ants and the Grasshopper
    • The dog and the tiger
    • The story of Sleeping Beauty
    • Two rabbit stories
  • imperative
  • Malaysian English
    • Improper prepositions
  • Modal Verbs
    • ‘can’
    • ‘Can’ or ‘could’
    • ‘can’ or ‘may’
    • ‘could’
    • ‘may and might’
    • ‘must’
    • ‘shall’
    • ‘should’
    • ‘will’ other uses
    • can, could, may, might
    • Must, shall, should, will, would
  • Phrasal verb Introduction
    • ” round ” phrasal verbs expression
    • “Kitchen” expressions
    • “light” expressions
    • “Test” expressions
    • ‘air’ expressions
    • ‘Bug’ expressions
    • ‘Seafood’ expressions
    • First day at work
    • Phrasal verb “blood”
    • Phrasal Verb “up”
    • Phrasal Verb ‘To ask ..’
    • Phrasal verb 1
    • Phrasal verb 2
    • Phrasal Verb 3
    • Phrasal Verb 4
    • Phrasal verb 5
    • Reverse Expressions
    • “fruit” expressions
    • “household” expressions
    • “instrument” expressions
  • Possession
  • Preposition
    • ‘at’ , ‘on’ or ‘for’
    • ‘In, on, at’ advance level
    • ‘In, on, at’ which is correct?
    • At or with?
    • Buckle up at or in the back
    • In or at for place and time
    • in school or at school
    • Preposition of places, dates and times
    • Preposition with situations and things
    • Prepositions of place and position
    • Prepositions of Position
    • Prepositions of Time and Duration
  • Pronoun ‘ I ‘ or ‘ me ‘
  • Proverbs
    • Proverbs 1
    • Proverbs 2
  • Punctuation
  • Quantifiers, ‘some and any’
    • ‘plenty of’ or ‘a lot of’
    • Few or Little
    • Fewer or less
    • Some, much, any
    • ‘A few’ or ‘few’
  • Reference
  • Sentence Structure (and, but, or)
  • Sentence, phrase, clause
  • Similes ( primary )
  • Similes ( upper level )
  • Subject of a sentence
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
    • Confusing Subject – Verb Agreement
  • Suffixes
    • Suffixes and Abstract Nouns
    • Suffixes and how they form abstract nouns
    • ‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ affixes.
  • Teaching Adolescents
  • Teaching children
    • Children’s story
      • Ugly Duckling
    • Things we should do in life
  • Tenses
    • are, will, will be
    • be, been and being
    • Conditionals – the Present Tense
    • Conditionals – Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses
    • Correct tense
    • Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous Tenses
    • Future tense
      • ‘going to …’
      • ‘will’ in future tense
      • ‘will’ or ‘going to’
    • Had had
    • Has or have
    • Irregular Verbs
      • How do you learn them?
    • Is this sentence correct?
    • Past Continuous Tense
    • Past Perfect Tense
      • Past Perfect
    • Past tense & present prefect
    • Please explain
    • Present & Past Perfect Continuous Tenses
    • Present Continuous Tense
    • Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous
    • Present Perfect or Simple Past Tense
    • Present Perfect Tense
    • Simple future and future continuous Tense
    • Simple Past Tense
    • Simple Present Tense
    • Simple Present Tense or Present Continuous Tense
    • Simple Tense
    • “Any question” or “Any questions”
  • Top 15 University Worldwide
  • Vocabulary
    • ‘yet’ how it is used
    • all but
    • Bad Words
    • Call of nature
    • Confusing Vocabulary
    • Confusing words
    • Definition of blue moon
    • Difference between towards, toward and to
    • Either … or, Neither … nor
      • Not only … but also
    • Four letters word
    • Fun with synonyms 1
    • Fun with Synonyms 2
    • Fun with synonyms 3
    • Fun with synonyms 4
    • Fun with synonyms 5
    • Fun with synonyms 6
    • Let’s go camping
    • Mistakes in English
      • Funny Sign
      • Notice
    • Only
    • Other synonyms of walk
    • Oxymoron
    • Pleasant words to compliment friends
    • Rhyming compounds
    • Short forms in business
    • Some vocabularies on work well done
    • Suffixes associated with places
    • Troublesome words
    • Vocabulary exercise
    • Which one is correct?
      • bath or shower
        • ‘Faster’ or ‘fast’
        • Any or No
        • Any question or Any questions
          • Take or Bring
        • Any ‘others’ or ‘other’?
        • give lesson or give tuition
        • seen or watched
        • types of cars or type of cars?
        • unwrapping or unwrap
        • “in spite of” and “despite”
      • Is or are?
        • Why ‘is’ is used
      • Is or are?
      • Titled or entitled
      • Was and is
    • word or phrase that is less offensive and unpleasant
    • Words associated with “Creepy Crawlies”
    • Words associated with “hold”
    • Words associated with “Joke”
    • Words associated with “light”
    • Words associated with “see”
    • Words associated with animals
    • Words Associated with Clothing
    • Words associated with cooking
    • Words associated with culinary
    • Words associated with hand
    • Words Associated with Household
    • Words associated with music
    • Words associated with So Many
    • Words associated with sound
    • Words associated with strength
    • Words associated with the body
    • Words associated with tool
    • Words associated with walking
    • Words associated with “fight”, “battle” or “war”
    • Words that are almost homonyms but confusing
    • Words that describe a person of good character
    • Words that look or sound alike
    • Words to describe people
    • Wordwise
    • Wrongly Misspelled words
  • WH-Questions (why)
    • 11.9 WH-Questions (Why)
  • Which and Whose
    • How, how many, how much
    • Which and Whose Questions
  • Why English is so hard?
    • English is tough
  • Why use Negative Questions?
  • Writing an Argumentative/Persuasive Essay
  • Writing Descriptive Essay
    • Connective Words
    • How to reply a resignation letter?
    • How to write Hyphens and Numbers
    • How to write letter of congratulations
    • How to write letter of recognition of successful effort
    • How to write letter of recognition of unsuccessful effort
    • How to write numbers properly
    • How to write time properly
    • Transitional Words
    • Writing Short forms in business Communications
      • Common expressions used in a meeting

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      • About Chinese Tea
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    • Never Criticize
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