My language tips http://www.mylanguagetips.com Understanding a culture by it's language Sun, 02 May 2010 08:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 English | more English articles http://www.mylanguagetips.com/english-more-english-articles/ http://www.mylanguagetips.com/english-more-english-articles/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 08:45:04 +0000 prophet http://www.mylanguagetips.com/?p=49 ]]> You need to use “a” if noun (naming word) in a sentence begins with a consonant (B,C,D,F,G,H,J,K etc)

If the first letter is a vowel, we use “an”.

Some examples:

This is an elephant (‘e’ is a vowel)
This is a car (‘c’ is a consonant)

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The house is ______.
Andrew hurt ______ playing rugby.
Susie saw ______ on TV yesterday.

The house is mine
Andrew hurt himself playing rugby
Susie saw herself on TV yesterday

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Choose from – your, my, mine, her, his, its

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Simon is a slow driver

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  • Each girl was eating dinner.
  • Every girl eats dinner.

What is the difference?

  • The word “Each” means “To be seen as separate, individual”
  • The word “Every” means “To be seen as a group, not individual”

Here are some examples:

She liked _____ minute of the hockey competition. (each/every)
He spoke to _____ of the employees in the shop. (each/every)

Answers:

She liked every minute of the hockey competition.
He spoke to each of the employees in the shop.

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Today we are going to focus on how to count from 1 to 10 in German!

Cheers,
MLT

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