Monday, October 24, 2016

Verbs followed by verbs

Verbs followed by verbs

When a verb is followed by another verb, the second verb may be

Verb တခုနောက်ကနေ နောက် verb တခု ကပ်ရက် လိုက်တဲ့အခါ ဒုတိယ verb သည် infinitive သို့မဟုတ် gerund ပုံစံ ဖြစ်တတ်ပါသည်။

an infinitive
Eg. I want to go.

ing form (gerund)
Eg. I enjoy swimming.

It depends on the first verbs. ဘယ်အပေါ်မှာ မူတည်သလဲဆိုရင် ပထမ verb အပေါ်မှာ မူတည်ပါတယ်။

Sunday, October 23, 2016

it is no use/there is no use (doing something)

People tried to stop her, but it was no use. လူ​တွေက သူမကိုတားဖို့ ကြိုးစားခဲ့ကြတယ်​။ ဒါ​ပေမယ်​့ အဆင်​မ​ပြေပါဘူး (မ​အောင်​မြင်​ပါဘူး)


It is no use/there is no use ရဲ့ ​နောက်​မှာ V ing လိုက်​ပါတယ်​။ လုပ်​တဲ့ဟာက အကျိုးမရှိ အသုံး မဝင်​ဘူးလို့ ဆိုလိုပါတယ်​။


There is no use asking me about it, because I don't know anything. ငါ့ကို အဲဒါအ​ကြောင်​း ​မေးတာ (​မေးတဲ့သူအတွက်​) ဘာမှ အကျိုးမရှိဘူး။ ငါမှ ဘာမှ မသိတာ။

it is no good doing something

💬It is no good + ving


💬It is no good trying to persuade me. You won't success. ငါ့ကို စည်​းရုံး ဆွဲ​ဆောင်​​နေတာ အကျိုးမရှိဘူး။ မင်​း ​အောင်​မြင်​မှာ မဟုတ်​ဘူး။


💬It is no good ရဲ့​နောက်​မှာ v ing လိုက်​ပါတယ်​။

အဲဒီ လုပ်​​နေတဲ့ အလုပ်​ အကျိုးမရှိဘူး မ​ကောင်​းဘူး ​အောင်​မြင်​မှာ မဟုတ်​ဘူး ဆိုလိုတာပါ။


💬It is no good worrying about situations you can't control. ကိုယ်​ ထိန်​းချုပ်​လို့မရတဲ့ အ​ခြေအ​နေ​တွေနဲ့ ပတ်​သက်​လို့ စိတ်​ပူ​နေလည်​း အလကားပဲ။

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Agree + prepositions

Agree

With
I agree with you on this issue.

About/on
My father and I don't agree about/on very much.

+that
I agree that he should be invited.

+question word
Experts were unable to agree whether the drug is safe or not.

+to infinitive
The bank has agreed to lend me £9000.

Agree to something (phrasal verb) = to agree something
eg. agree to the terms of the peace treaty

Agree with something (phrasal verb) = to think something is morally acceptable
eg. I don't agree with hunting.

Agree to somebody (phrasal verb) = if a situation or new conditions agree with you, they make you feel healty and happy
eg. You look well - the mountain air must agree with you.

Complaining, protesting and remonstrating

Some verbs relating to complaining, protesting and remonstrating
(Source: eng voc in use Adv)

😡Complain about

😡Protest about

😡Object to

😡Remonstrate against

😡find fault with somebody/something

😡Grumble about

😡Gripe about

😡Grouse about

😡Whinge about

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Linking verbs

တစ္​ခ်ိဳ႕ verb ​ေတြ​ေနာက္​က noun သို႔မဟုတ္​ adjective လိုက္​ပါတယ္​

He was a good teacher.
N + V + N

He was happy.
N + V + Adj

He became angery.
N + V + Adj

These verbs are link verbs. Common link verbs are
Be
Become
Appear
Feel
Look
Remain
Seem
Sound

Some common link verbs followed by adjective.
Get
Go
Grow
Taste
Smell

Adjectives + prepositions At to in with for

At
Good at ​ေတာ္​
She is very good at Geography.

Bad at ညံ့
She is bad at History.

Better at ပို​ေတာ္​
She is much better at tennis than me.

Hopeless at ​ေမ်ာ္​လင္​့ခ်က္​မဲ့
I am hopeless at sport.

To
Married to လက္​ထပ္​
She is married to a doctor.

Engaged to ​ေစ့စပ္​
She is engaged to a doctor.

Similar to တူ
Paul is similar to his brother.

different from ျခားနား
Emily is different from her sister.

In
Interested in စိတ္​ဝင္​စား
I am interested in sport.

On
Keen on
Dependent on (independent of)

With
Crowded with

For
Famous for
Responsible for

Monday, October 17, 2016

Adjectives + to infinitives DEFGHL

Delighted
We would be delighted to come to dinner on Friday.

Disappointed
He was disappointed to find they had already gone.

Determined
I am determined to get this piece of work finished today.

Eager
She sounded very eager to meet you.

Fortunate
You are very fortunate to have found such a lovely house.

Glad
I am glad to know the parcel arrived safely.

Happy
You will be happy to know that James is winning the first prize.

Lucky
They are lucky to have such a nice office to work in.

Likely
Do remind me because I am likely to forget.

Adjectives + to infinitives ABC (adjectives and participial adjectives followed by infinitives)

amazed
Mr Graham was amazed to find ancient gold coins inside the pot.

Afraid
Don't be afraid to say what you think.

Anxious
I am anxious to get home to open my present.

Ashamed
He was ashamed to admit to his mistake.

Astonished
I was astonished to see Miriam there.

Careful
Be careful to look both ways when you cross the road.

Certain
The population explosion is certain to cause widespread famine.

Content
They are content to socialize with a very small circle of people.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Modal (could)

could

😎😎can ၏ past tense အဖြစ် သုံးနိုင်သည်။

အထူးသဖြင့်

see, hear, smell, taste, feel, remember, understand စသည်တို့နှင့် တွဲသုံးသည်။


I could smell the gas as soon as I entered the house.

I couldn't hear very well from the back of the theatre.


to say that somebody had the general ability to do something

စွမ်းရည် တစ်ခုခုရှိကြောင်း ပြောရာတွင်သုံး

My grandfather could speak five languages.


to say that somebody had the permission to do something

ခွင့်ပြုချက် တောင်းရာတွင် သုံး

We were totally free. We could do what we wanted.


😎😎to talk about possible action now or in the future (especially to make suggestions)

What shall we do tomorrow?

မနက်ဖြန်ခါ ဘာလုပ်ကြမလဲ

We could go to the cinema.

ရုပ်ရှင်သွားကြမယ်လေ (ရုုပ်ရှင်သွားလို့ရတယ်)

(Not used as the past of can)


😎😎for the actions which are not realistic

I am so tired, I could sleep for a week. ငါ အရမ်းပင်ပန်းနေတယ်။ တစ်ပတ်လောက်တောင် မထပဲ အိပ်ပစ်လိုက်နိုင်တယ်။ (တကယ်တော့ ဘယ်သူမှ တစ်ပတ်လောက် ဆက်တိုက်မအိပ်နိုင်။ not realistic ဒါကြောင့် can မသုံး could သုံး)

I am so hungry. I could eat you up.


😎😎to say that something is possible now or in the future. The meaning is similar to may or might.

ဖြစ်နိုင်တာကို ပြောဖို့သုံး. may/might တို့ သုံးသလိုမျိုး

The story could be true. But I don't believe.


😎😎past tense of could = could have done

I was so hungry. I could have eaten you up.


something could have happened = it was possible to happen but did not happen

ဖြစ်နိုင်ခဲ့တယ် မဖြစ်ခဲ့

Diana was lucky. She could have died in her car crash. But luckily she survived.


😎😎for request

Could you wait a moment, please?

ခနစောင့်လို့ရမလား (not the past of can)


Do you think you could…….= request

Do you think you could lend me your car?


😎😎Asking for things 

တခုခုတောင်းတဲ့နေရာမှာ သုံး

(at the coffee bar) Could I have a cup of coffee, please?

ကော်ဖီတစ်ခွက်ပေးပါ/ ငါကော်ဖီတခွက် ရနိုင်မလား ကျေးဇူးပြု၍


😎😎Asking to do things ​

တခုခုလုပ်ချင်လို့ မေးတဲ့အခါ သုံး

Could I use your car?

မင်းကားကို သုံးလို့ရမလား

Modal (can)

😃something is possible or allowed တစ်ခုခု ဖြစ်နိုင်တယ်၊ တစ်ခုခုကို ခွင့်ပြုတယ်

I haven't got a car. ငါ့မှာ ကားမရှိဘူး။ You can use my car. ငါ့ကားကို သုံးလို့ရတယ်နော်။


😃somebody has the ability to do something တစ်ယောက်ယောက်မှာ စွမ်းရည် တစ်ခုခုရှိတယ်

Can you speak any foreign language? နိုင်ငံခြားဘာသာတစ်ခုခု ပြောတတ်သလား။

No, I can't. မပြောတတ်ဘူး။


😃to ask people to do things (request) လုပ်ပေးနိုင်သလား မေးတဲ့အခါ request လုပ်တဲ့အခါမှာ

Can you wait a moment, please? ခနစောင့်နိုင်လား။

can

😃to ask for something ပစ္စည်းတစ်ခုခု တောင်းတဲ့အခါ (ဥပမာ စျေးဝယ်တဲ့ အခါမျိုး)

(in a shop) Can I have these postcards, please? How much? ဒီ ပို့စ်ကဒ်တွေ လိုချင်လို့၊ ဘယ်​​လောက်​လဲ။

(during a meal) Can I have the salt, please? ဆားနည်းနည်းလောက် ရမလား။


😃Can I…..? တစ်ခုခု လုပ်ပေးချင်တဲ့အခါ

Can I get you a glass of water? ရေတစ်ခွက်လောက် ခပ်ပေးရမလား

Can I help you? ကျ​နော်​ ကူညီရမလား၊

Adjective + preposition (sorry) E

Sorry

😞Sorry about a situation or something that happened. အ​ခြေအ​နေ တစ်​ခု ဖြစ်​ပျက်​သွား​သော မ​ကောင်​းတာတစ်​ခုအတွက်​ ဝမ်​းနည်​း​ပေး

I'm sorry about Julie losing her job.


😞Sorry for/about something you did.

ကိုယ်​လုပ်​မိတာ အတွက်​ စိတ်​မ​ကောင်​းဖြစ်​မိ

I'm sorry for shouting at you yesterday.


😞Feel sorry for somebody who is in bad situation.

အ​ခြေအ​နေ မ​ကောင်​းတဲ့သူအတွက်​ ဝမ်​းနည်​း

I feel sorry for Matt. He's had a lot of bad luck.


😞[+ (that )] 

I'm sorry (that) you had such a difficult journey.


😞[+ to infinitive] 

We were both sorry to hear you've been ill again.


😞feel sorry for yourself

ကိုယ်​့ကို မ​ကောင်​းတာ​တွေ ဖြစ်​လို့ ဝမ်​းနည်​း

He sounded very sorry for himself on the telephone.


😞I'm sorry to say

​ပြောရမှာ အားနားပါတယ်​။ ​ပြောရမှာ စိတ်​မ​ကောင်​းပါဘူး။

I'm sorry to say that the project's funding has been cancelled.

Most people who start the course do, I'm sorry to say, give up within the first two weeks.

sorry


😞​တောင်​းပန်​​သော စကား

Oh, I'm sorry - I didn't see you there.

Tom, I'm so sorry about last night - it was all my fault.

I've said I'm sorry.


😞I'm sorry

သ​ဘောမတူ၊ ငြင်​းဆို​သောအခါ ယဉ်​ယဉ်​​ကျေး​ကျေး ဖြစ်​​အောင်​ ​ပြောဆို​သောစကား

I'm sorry but I think you've made a mistake.

I'm sorry, I can't agree.

Adjective + preposition (sorry)

😞Sorry about a situation or something that happened.
I'm sorry about Julie losing her job.

😞Sorry for/about something you did.
I'm sorry for shouting at you yesterday.

😞Feel sorry for somebody who is in bad situation = I feel sorry for Matt. He's had a lot of bad luck.

😞[+ (that )]
I'm sorry (that) you had such a difficult journey.

😞[+ to infinitive]
We were both sorry to hear you've been ill again.

😞feel sorry for yourself
disapproving to feel sad because you have a problem and you feel that it is not fair that you are suffering so much
He sounded very sorry for himself on the telephone.

😞I'm sorry to say
​ေျပာရမွာ အားနားပါတယ္​။ ​ေျပာရမွာ စိတ္​မ​ေကာင္​းပါဘူး။
I'm sorry to say that the project's funding has been cancelled.
Most people who start the course do, I'm sorry to say, give up within the first two weeks.
sorry

😞​ေတာင္​းပန္​​ေသာ စကား
Oh, I'm sorry - I didn't see you there.
Tom, I'm so sorry about last night - it was all my fault.
I've said I'm sorry.

😞I'm sorry
သ​ေဘာမတူ၊ ျငင္​းဆို​ေသာအခါ ယဥ္​ယဥ္​​ေက်း​ေက်း ျဖစ္​​ေအာင္​ ​ေျပာဆို​ေသာစကား
I'm sorry but I think you've made a mistake.
I'm sorry, I can't agree.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Adjective (surprised)

Surprised အံ့အားသင္​့

💝+at
We were very surprised at the result.
It's not like you to behave like this, Alice - I'm surprised at you (= I feel disappointed with you)!

💝+that
I'm not surprised (that) he didn't keep his promise.

💝+to inf
I'm surprised to see you here.

Adjective + about


🎓Excited about a situation = I am excited about going away next week.
စိတ္​လ​ႈပ္​႐ွား

🎓Worried about a situation = they don't seem worrired about a situation.
စိတ္​ပူ

🎓Upset about a situation = don't get upset about the dress; there is a little stain on it.
အစာမ​ေၾက

🎓Nervous about a situation = I am very nervous about driving again after the accident.
​ေၾကာက္​

🎓Happy about a situation = Are you happy about/ with your new working arrangement.
​ေက်နပ္​

School + prepositions

😃School + prepositions

😃a place where children go to be educated

To
She drives the kids to school every morning.

At
I was at school with (= I went to the same school at the same time as) Luke's brother.

In
Is Emily in school today or is she still ill?

😃the time during the day when children are studying in school

😃before/after school

Eg. Come straight home after school.

Adjective + preposition (pleased)

pleased
​ေပ်ာ္​ရႊင္​​ေသာ ​ေက်နပ္​​ေသာ

+about
😄Are you pleased about John's promotion?

+that
😄We're so pleased that you're able to come to the wedding.

+with
😄I'm really pleased with your work this term.

+to inf
😄I'm pleased to hear you're feeling better.

😄be pleased to do sth
တစ္​ခုခုကို အရမ္​းလုပ္​ခ်င္​
The personnel manager will be pleased to advise you.
I'm only too (= very) pleased to help.

😄(I'm) pleased to meet you
ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္​​ေတြ႔​ေသာအခါ ႏႈတ္​ဆက္​​ေသာ စကား

😄pleased with yourself
ကိုယ္​လုပ္​လိုက္​တာ သို႔မဟုတ္​ ကိုယ္​့ကို ​ေကာင္​းတာ​ေတြ ျဖစ္​လာတာကို ​ေက်နပ္​
Simon's looking very pleased with himself today.

Adjective + prepostion (delighted)

delighted အလြန္​ ​ေက်နပ္​ very pleased

😃With
We're delighted with our new house.

😃At/by
I was delighted at/by your news.

😃[+ that ]
I'm absolutely delighted that you can come.

😃[+ to infinitive]
We'd be delighted to come to dinner on Friday.

Friday, October 14, 2016

Adjective + preposition (angry)

👠Angry about something = it is stupid to get angry about things that don't matter ဘာကို စိတ္​ဆိုး

👠Annoyed about something

👠Furious about something

👡Angry with somebody for doing something = I sometimes feel angry with her for not listening to me. ဘယ္​သူ႔ကို စိတ္​ဆိုး (အဲဒီသူက ကိုယ္​မႀကိဳက္​တာ တစ္​ခုခု လုပ္​လို႔)

👡Annoyed with somebody for doing something

👡Furious with somebody for doing something

Adjective + preposition (of, to)

:-) Be + Nice/kind/good/generous/polite/stupid/silly+ of somebody (to do something)

:-) It was nice of him to help you.

:-) It is kind of you to help me.

:-) It is good of you to do homework in time.

:-) It is generous of you to donate this amount of money.

:-) It is polite of you to behave like this.

:-) It is stupid of Sandra to feel guilty.

:-) It is silly of her to believe him.

♥ Be + nice/kind/good/generous/polite/cruel/rude/friendly + to somebody

♥ Kind to = please be kind to me.

♥ Good to = he is very good to his mother. I'm always trying to be good to you.

♥ Generous to = she is always generous to poor people.

♥ Polite to = he was too polite to me to point out my mistake.

♥ Rude to

♥ Friendly to

♥ Cruel to

Thursday, October 13, 2016

🎃Adjective + preposition (of) 2🎃

🎃Aware of
I suddenly became aware of him looking at me. သတိထားမိ

🎃Conscious of
He gradually became conscious of the fact that everyone else was wearing a siut. သတိထားမိ

🎃Capable of
Capable of something or doing something စြမ္​း​ေဆာင္​ႏိုင္​
The earthquake last night was capable of destroying the whole region.

🎃Incapable of
She is incapable of walking past that handsome boy.
မစြမ္​း​ေဆာင္​ႏိုင္​

🎃Full of
The shelves were full of book.
ျပည့္​​ေန

🎃Short of
Be short of something နည္​း​ေန
We are a bit short of coffee - I must get some more.

🎃Typical of
This sort of hot and spicy food is typical of the food in Thailand. ထံုးစံျဖစ္​၊ ဝိ​ေသသျဖစ္​

🎃Tired of
Be tired of something/somebody
ၿငီး​ေငြ႔
She is tired of working there.

🎃Sick of မ​ေကာင္​းတဲ့ ခံစားခ်က္​ ျဖစ္​​ေပၚ​ေစ
I am sick of the way you are behaving.

🎃Certain of/certain about
​ေသခ်ာ
He is certain about/of his attacker's identity.

🎃Sure of/sure about
​ေသခ်ာ
Is there anything you are not sure of/about?

🎃Be sure about/of somebody တစံုတ​ေယာက္​ကို ယံုၾကည္​
You can always be sure of Kate.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

🍞Adjective + preposition (of) - 1🍞

Afraid of
I'm afraid of flying. ​ေၾကာက္​

Frightened of
Are you frightened of spider? ​ေၾကာက္​

Terrified of
I'm terrified of dark. ​ေၾကာက္​

Scared of
I'm scared of telling her what really happened. ​ေၾကာက္​

Fond of ႏွစ္​သက္​
She was very fond of horses.

Proud of ဂုဏ္​ယူ
You must be very proud of your son.

Jealous of မနာလို
She is jealous of her sister's beauty.

Ashamed of ႐ွက္​
I got ashamed of myself for making such a mistake.

Envious of အားက်
I'm very envious of your new coat.

Suspicious of သံသယရိွ
They are very suspicious of each other.

Critical of ​ေဝဖန္​
​The report is highly critical of the safety standard of the factory.

Tolerant of သည္​းခံ
I think men are less tolerant of stress than women.

Facebook page

Facebook မွာလည္​း page ရိွပါတယ္​။

https://m.facebook.com/for.your.eng/
ဒါက fb page ရဲ႕ လိပ္​စာပါ။

Preposition exercise 2 with answer keys

:-) The doctor told her to take (off) her shirt. ခြၽတ္​သည္​

:-) He was interested (in) sport when he was young. စိတ္​ဝင္​စား

:-) You must not lose sight (of) your goal. မ်က္​​ေျချပတ္​

:-) You should alway keep sight (of) your bag when you are at airport.

:-) I am very attached (to) my old guitar.
တြယ္​တာ

:-) We can't go (on) living loke that. We must cut on our spending. ဆက္​လုပ္​

:-) I am tired (of) fighting with you. ၿငီး​ေငြ႔

Noun + preposition (for)

Noun + preposition ( for)

a cheque for (a sum of money)
Eg. a cheque for $30

a demand for
Eg. a demand for new cars

need for

reason for
Eg. The train was late. But nobody knew the reason for the delay.

By

❤by

CAUSE

1.   used to show the person or thing that does something

The motorcycle was driven by a tiny bald man.

We were amazed by what she told us.

I'm reading some short stories (written) by Chekhov.

The book was translated by a well-known author.

I felt frightened by the anger in his voice.

METHOD

2.   used to show how something is done

They travelled across Europe by train/car.

She did the decorating (all) by herself (= alone, without help from anyone).

We went in by (= through) the front door.

Do you wish to be paid in cash or by cheque?

He learned English by listening to the radio.

Suddenly, she grabbed him by the arm (= took hold of this part of his body).

I refuse to live by (= following) their rules.

NOT LATER THAN

3.   not later than; at or before

She had promised to be back by five o'clock.

The application must be in by the 31st to be accepted.

By the time I got to the station the train had already gone.

MEASUREMENT

4. used to show measurements or amounts

Our office floor space measured twelve metres by ten (= was twelve metres in one direction and ten in the other).

Their wages were increased by 12%.

Freelance workers are paid by the hour (= for every hour they work).

These telephones have sold by the thousand.

DURING

5. during

We travelled by night and rested by day.

6. by nature/profession/trade, etc.
used when describing someone's character/job, etc.

She is, by nature, a sunny, positive sort of a person.

He's a plumber by trade.

She was, by profession, a lawyer.

7. be all right/fine by sb

If something is all right/fine by someone, they agree that it can happen

"I'd prefer to go later." "That's fine by me."
If it's all right by you, I'd like to leave now.

8. near, at the side of or (in distance or time) past

A small child stood sullenly by her side.

He wanted to keep her close by him always.

The policewoman walked by (= past) them without saying a word.

The years flew by.

Preposition exercise 1 with answers

📞She stared him ....... amazement. 🔑in

📞....... my amazement, he ate the whole lot. 🔑To

📞The breeze comes ........ a storm. 🔑before (after is also possible)

📞This war has been going ..... for years. 🔑on

📞....... eating some nuts, I broke my teeth. 🔑after/during

📞It is silly worrying ..... things that are out of your control. 🔑about

📞Don't worry ...... me. 🔑(for) I can deal ..... the situation. 🔑with

📞We will be selling the tickets ...... for £5 each. 🔑at/for

📞You have got nothing to be ashamed .......   🔑(of)

📞How can I get ...... JFK Airport? 🔑(to)

📞He got angry and started throwing the things ...... me. 🔑(at)

📞The kitten was sleeping.. .. the armchair and I can't sit ...... it. 🔑(in.    in)

📞He is wandering around the city ..... his blue car. 🔑in

📞I will return home ...... train. 🔑by

📞....... the end, the poor man became a great king.  🔑in

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Common collocations - do

Do your best
Do damage
Do an experiment
Do exercise
Do an exam
Do someone a good term
Do someone a favour
Do harm
Do your hair
Do your homework
Do the ironing/shopping/washing, etc
Do some work

Monday, October 10, 2016

Phrasal verb exercise 3 with answers

😥Don't run away .......me. Don't leave me alone, please.  from

💽You are running so fast. I can't keep up .....you. with

💽We look .... at the plane as it flew above us. up

💽Are you looking forward ..... your birthday. to

Phrasal verb exercise 2 with answer

Sorry I'm late. The car broke down. (=the engine stopped working)

Look out! (= be careful) There's a car coming.

It was my first flight. I was nervous when the plane took off. (=went into the air)

How was the exam? How did you get on? (=how did you do)

My French isn't very good, but it's enough to get by. (=manage)

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Verbs + (at or to)

Shout at somebody စိတ္​ဆိုးလို႔​ေအာ္​
He got very angry and shouted at me.
Shout to somebody ၾကားရ​ေအာင္​ လွမ္​း​ေအာ္​
He shouted to me from the other side of the road.

Throw something at something/somehow ထိ​ေအာင္​ပစ္​
Somebody threw an egg at the minister.
Throw something to sombody ဖမ္​းမိ​ေအာင္​ လွမ္​းပစ္​​ေပး
She threw some snacjs to me. I caught and ate up.

Verb + preposition (at)

Look at
Why are you looking at me like that? Am I so ugly?

Have a look at/take a look at
Have a look at this picture.

Stare at
Sean is staring at me.

Glance at
Seeing she glanced at her watch, I knew she wanted to go back home.

Laugh at
I look stupid with this haircut. Everybody will laugh at me.

Aim something at
Don't aim the gun at me. It's so dangerous.

Point something at
Don't point that knife at me. It's so dangerous.

Shoot the gun at
He's shooting the gun at the birds.

Fire the gun at
He's firing the gun at the birds.

Verb + preposition (to)

👀Talk to somebody
Who is the man you are talking to?
မင္​း စကား​ေျပာ​ေနတဲ့လူက ဘယ္​သူလဲ

👀Speak to somebody
I want to speak to Ms. Linn.
မစ္​ လင္​းနဲ႔ စကား​ေျပာခ်င္​တယ္​

👀write to somebody
write a letter to somebody
I will write to you. I will write a letter to you. ငါ မင္​းဆီ စာ​ေရးမယ္​

👀apologize to sombody for
They apologized to me for what happened. ျဖစ္​ပ်က္​ခဲ့တာ​ေတြအတြက္​ သူတို႔ ငါ့ကို ​ေတာင္​းပန္​တယ္​

👀explain something to somebody
Can you explain this word to me?

👀explain to somebody what/how/why....
I can't explain to her how this has happened.
ဒါ ဘယ္​လို ျဖစ္​သြားလဲ ငါ သူမကို ႐ွင္​းမျပတတ္​

👀describe to somebody what/how/why
Let me describe to you what I saw.
က်​ေနာ္​ ျမင္​ခဲ့တာကို ​ေျပာျပ (​ေဖာ္​ျပ) ပါရ​ေစ

Noun + preposition (to)

Noun + to 👍👍👍👍

the damage to
an invitation to a party
the solution to the problem
a key to the door
an answer to the question
a reply to a letter
a reaction to my suggestion
an attitude to/ toward her job

Preposition (at) for time

at + time


For the time of day

at five o'clock

at eleven thirty

at midnight

at lunchtime

at sunset


For other expressions

at night

at the weekend/ at weekends

at Christmas

(But on Christmas day)

at the moment အခု​လော​လောဆယ်​

at present အခု​လော​လောဆယ်​

at the same time တစ်​ချိန်​တည်​းမှာ


at the end of (something)

Eg. At the end of January ဇန်​နဝါရီ အစမှာ

At the end of (the month/the day/the year/January/February/the game/the concert etc.)


At the beginning of (something)

Eg. At the beginning of th film ရုပ်​ရှင်​ဇာတ်​လမ်​း အစမှာ

Was going to (do something)

လုပ်မယ်ဆိုပြီး မလုပ်ဖြစ်ခဲ့တာတွေ

🎁🎁🎁I was going to (do something) = I intended to do it, but didn't do it:

လုပ်​မလို့ မလုပ်​ဖြစ်​ခဲ့🎁🎁🎁


I was just going to cross the road when somebody shouted 'Stop!´.

လမ်​းဖြတ်​ကူးမလို့ လုပ်​​နေတဲ့အချိန်​၊ တစ်​​ယောက်​က မကူးနဲ့လို့ လှမ်​း​အော်​လိုက်​တယ်​။ လမ်​းမဖြတ်​ကူး ဖြစ်​​တော့ဘူး။


Peter was going to do the exam, but he changed his mind.

စာ​မေးပွဲ ​ဖြေမလို့။ စိတ်​​ပြောင်​းသွား။ မ​ဖြေ​တော့ဘူး။


🎁🎁🎁'Something was going to happen' (but didn't happen')🎁🎁🎁

I thought it was going to rain, but it didn't.

မိုးရွာမယ်​ ထင်​ခဲ့၊ မရွာခဲ့ဘူး


Saturday, October 8, 2016

Using present continuous for the future

🍷This is my agenda for next three days.

I am meeting Kathy on Sunday.
I am going to my lawyer on Monday.
I am playing tennis on Tuesday.

🍷In these examples, I have already decided and arranged to do these things.

အနာဂတ်​မှာ လုပ်​မယ်​့ဟာ​တွေ ဆုံးဖြတ်​ပြီးသား စီစဉ်​ပြ​ီးသား ဆိုရင်​ present continuous ကိုသုံပါတယ်။

Phrasal verb exercise 1 with answers.

🔑The bus was full. We couldn't get on.

🔑The woman got into the car and drove off/away.

🔑I will go away tomorrow and come back on the day after tomorrow.

🔑When I touched him on the shoulder, he turned round/around.

get on - ဘတ်​စ်​ကား စသည်​တို့ အ​ပေါ်တက်​သည်​

drive off/away - ​မောင်​းထွက်​သွားသည်​

come back - ပြန်​လာသည်​

turn round/around - ပြန်​လှည်​့သည်​

Some phrasal verbs

📺sent off - posted
📺turned up - arrived
📺came across - found
📺took down - wrote
📺asked around - invited
📺playing up - not working properly
📺broke down - stopped working
📺brought up - mentioned
📺sort out - dealt with
📺messing about - caused inconvenience
📺put off - postpone
📺call off - cancel

Present perfect versus past

Present perfect versus past