Hi! I am Noel. Please teach me more about English...

[Noky 20]

mhi i noel please teach me more about english i want to improve my english

[RachelsEnglish]

Hi Noky 20-
Well, one way you can improve is to use it...maybe you can post a little about yourself, and I could correct it.

Nice to meet you!
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Rachel
www.RachelsEnglish.com

[M.Ramzan]

GM Rachel.
nice to see u here .. im ramzan.. From pakistan, student of level 6

i hope u giv me some helping hand to correct these sentences


1: he was angry therefore i ran away.
2: he was angry so i ran away .

second one is ...


1: this is my servant, i was telling you about him .
2: this is my servant about whom i was telling you.

third one is ....

1: the first world war was fought during 1914 and 1918
2: the first world war was fought between 1914 and 1918

regards.

[Sarah113]

Hi again
I think that we say :
1- I was ungry therefore I ran a way ( means I was angry that's why I ran away)
- I was angry so I ran away ( means that I was angry as a result I ran away)
both of the sentences are correct
2-This is my servent whom I was telling you about
3- The first world war was fought between 1914 and 1918 ( I think )

[RachelsEnglish]

Hi M.Ramzan:

Here is my feedback:
1 - both are ok but the first is a bit more formal.
2 - both are ok, but the second is very awkward and though I think it is grammatically correct, a native speaker wouldn't use it. Another option: This is my servant, whom I was telling you about. Or, This is my servant I told you about.
3 - When you saying during 1914 and 1918, that makes it sound like there was NO fighting in 1915, 1916, or 1917, so you definitely want to say between 1914 and 1918.
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Rachel
www.RachelsEnglish.com

[M.Ramzan]

Rachel
I really appreciate your help because your post has really made a lot of ambiguous things clear.....

Since an English is not my native language, I, therefore, have been struggling with chosing the right preposition. In this case, from, or, out of. Whenever I need to use this kind of preposition, the first one that always comes to my mind is from. The majority of people, on the other hand, use out of. For instance, out of my pocket, out of nothing. My question then would be"What is the difference, if any, between from, and out of, and if there is any, please kindly explain to me when each of them is used?

Thank you in advance for your help and, of course, your valuable time.

[M.Ramzan]

sarah U TOooooo ........ :)

[Sarah113]

Hello
you're welcome Ramzan, I know that am not a native speaker and I did my best to give you a hand ;of caurs I do not know every thing that's why am learning .

[RachelsEnglish]

Hmmm...that is a good question. And really hard. I just spent 6 months in Germany and the prepositions are also what killed me there!

I would say, 'out of' is used a lot with the verb 'get' and 'pull'. You can use pull with from as in, I pulled her away from him (she was standing next to him) but you would use out of for: I pulled her out of the water. In this case, from is used with proximity and out of is used for an object that was physically in a definable space/thing.

That is just a small and partial explanation, but I hope it helps some. I can say, when you hear a native speaker use it, think about and memorize the context/phrase. Sometimes with prepositions it sadly works well to memorize on a case-by-case basis.
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Rachel
www.RachelsEnglish.com

[M.Ramzan]

Hi -
what is the difference between to go out and to go on an outing? Is that to go out means to go to a restaurant, go on an outing means to take a trip,
is that right .....


1:What are you doing tonight?
Oh, we're probably going out.


2:What are you doing tonight?
We're going on an outing.

[M.Ramzan]

1: We went on an outing in the park.
2: We went out to the park.
2: We had an outing in the park.

[M.Ramzan]

English grammar; In video' Aladdin disney, I heared this sentence.( Ow,in all my years,never have I seen this street). Why is the word of (have) in front of (I),in spite of that,the sentence isn't question?
why.....

[RachelsEnglish]

First, you are right with to go out/to go on an outing. In America (I don't know about the UK), "outing" is not common in conversational language.

We're going out tonight = to a bar, restaurant, etc.
We're going to the park = here it more of an "outing" but we don't need to use that word.

"Ow,in all my years,never have I seen this street). Why is the word of (have) in front of (I),in spite of that,the sentence isn't question?"

The sentence is "I have never seen this street" ... "never have I seen this street" is simply changing word order, not the meaning. "never have I seen this street" is absolutely not conversational English, it is that way because of "poetry" of the musical...that is problem with learning English from musicals/things that are more poetic, words/word order is used that is not common in conversation.
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Rachel
www.RachelsEnglish.com

[M.Ramzan]

good morning ..rachels

thanks for brief explaination .


Gulliver's travels - it's jonathan swifts one of famous books.

In chapter 19 - My Arrival in England .. in this chapter he use word yahoo several places... Yahoo" is an expression, I believe. It's more of a sound effect really, like when a cowboy would yell "Yeehaw!" in an old Western movie.
Perhaps when they realized they could make money in their business they said "Yahoo, we're gonna be rich boyeeeez!", and they decided 'Yahoo' should be the business name..etc

jonathan swifts writes'' u'r neither one of us,nor are you a yahoo''
after several days of travelling eastwards,i arrived in australia,and from there i managed to find a ship sailing to Europe. i didn't enjoy the voyage at all. all the sailors laughed at me because i walked and neighed like a horse . to me all the soldiers looked like YahOOs...and further he writes''
i also realize that there is no hope for humans ..i was foolish to think that i could bring a change in their lives and in the way they think.Humans are just the same as YahOOs,and YahOOs they will remain .

what does he mean here yahOOssssssssssss.

[RachelsEnglish]

This word was actually coined in Gulliver's Travels. In everyday language, it means an unrefined person. Brut.