English Fun Facts!

Hi there students! Let's take a break from grammar a bit, shall we? Today I'm going to share with you guys some fun facts about English. Check it out!

1. The most common letter in English is "e".

2. The word 'alphabet' comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.

3. The dot over the letter "i" and letter "j" is called a ''superscript dot''

4. The shortest complete sentence in English is "I am".

5. In English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".

6. The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".

7. The "QWERTY keyboard" gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.

8.  We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.


9. There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.


10. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".

Here are the 10 fun facts in English. Note that I took these from this website. If you wish to find out more, kindly click on the link and dig the secrets in English.

Have fun digging! ;)

Verbs - Simple Present Tense

Alright then students, today I would like to share about simple present tense. Before that, I really love to tell you this. Do yo know why English has lots of tenses? Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense, Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Future Tense and so on? Well, this is what my lecturer shared with me in one of the lesson. He said that

"English people really values time. That is why English people takes time in consideration whenever they want to construct a sentence"

Basically that is what he meant. I could not remember the exact words though.. sorry for that :)

Okay now, Simple Present Tense. According to this one book that I really love to refer, 'Correct your English Errors' by Tim Collins.

In this book, Collins explain that we use simple present tense to talk about:

1. Things that are always true
    e.g:Cats hate water

2. Things that happen regularly
    e.g: School starts in fall

3. Habits and routines
    e.g: I brush my teeth everyday

4. Future actions that are part of a schedule
    My train leaves at 5.21 P.M.

For futher explanation try watch this video.

Articles A, An, and The

Hi again, students! Today we are going to learn about articles. What is articles? According to  owl.english.purdue.edu  ,  articles function like an adjective, which modify nouns. 

 English has two articles:
1. the 
2. a/an.  

• 'The' is used to refer to specific or particular nouns

• A/an is used to modify general noun, or also known as non-specific or non-particular nouns. 
• We call 'the' as the definite article and 'a/an' as the indefinite article.

For example:

• I have a cat.
• He goes to the school.
• She wants an umbrella.

For futher explanation, try watching this video. 

Students, after you done, have fun do these exercises to enhance your understanding. Good luck!
Friendly reminder, watch the video first :D 

click here for the exercises

English? Why English?

Hello again! Before we start, I want to share something beneficial to you guys! Have you ever wonder, why we need to learn English? What is so special about English, that all students in the whole world need to learn it? Well students, let me share with you why we English is crucial and we have to learn it :)

Basically, there are 5 reasons which I got them from my previous lectures and discussions among friends. There might be more, but these five are those that I thought quite true, accurate, and fun to be shared with.

REASON 1: English is lingua-franca. It is the international language, a language that is used to connect various countries in the world!

REASON 2: Most knowledge have been translated into English, which makes it turns into a medium to access knowledge. By learning English, your scope to learn new knowledge is wider. Isn't that neat?

REASON 3: We live in the era of technologies. The development of technologies is very rapid and fast! There are iPads, tablets, e-book.. and most of these technologies use English as its language. Won't you find it hard to use these new development if you do not know the language used for them?

REASON 4: If you mastered English, you can have a conversation with anyone from any place in the world! You can make new friends, sharing stories, pictures, videos of any activities with them.. and create inter-cultural environment. Sounds fun right? Well not only that, remember those epic movies and dramas you love to watch? Now with the help of subtitle, you can watch any foreign drama like Korean and Japanese with no worries! But master English first, okay?

REASON 5:

Hope you are motivated to learn English now :)

Welcome, English lovers!

Hello students! The thirst for English knowledge must have brought you here. This post is specially to welcome you guys to this humble blog :) Well, since I am an English major, I will try my best to share with you anything about English. We will discuss anything and everything that is interesting.., well English IS interesting of course. So let's participate and enjoy reading!