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