Learn English Grammar In Focus

When expressing something in English, we, as second language speakers, often finds mistakes in choosing  a word and the status of it in our pattern. In this case, we will discuss about when we use Bare-infinitive and To Infinitive. Bare-Infinitive is a base verb which has no"TO" in front of a verb, like; Speak (Bare-Infinitive) To speak (To Infinitive) For Indonesian learners, the differences, specially in its usage, takes a lot of time and energy to find the best answer. This topic, I hop, will solve the problem. Bare-Infinitive is always placed at: 1. After a subject, as in; Many people respect the hero. The word /respect/ is bare-inf. and the /many people/ is the subject. There will be a mistake when we say; Many people to respect the hero. 2. After object of certain verbs (e.g. let, help (USA),make etc), as in; He makes me cry . They never let me go . Please help me fix the car. (USA) Certain verbs here are makes, let and help. And, the bare-in...

Talking about something happened in the past time can not be avoided from daily speaking, specially in English Language. All non native speakers should understand enough about the structure of it. Someone who speaks with his or her own language, sometimes, doesn't realize that he or she speaks with some structures. Structure of A sentence which describes past event will be related to the past form or pattern. This rule should be learned by all English learners when he or she wants to express something happened in the past time. There are two types of patterns in Expressing Past Event: 1. Nominal Pattern 2. Verbal Pattern In Nominal Pattern, we should use Be-past (Was or Were) and place non verbs after it. For example: Was ------- +    Non-Verb Were Note that We use /Was/ when t he subject is I, She, H e or It and We use /Were/ when the subject is We, They and You. For Example; I was ill yesterday. Take notice that the word /ill/ is an adjective (we...

Study this following dialoq! June  : Morning March! March : Morning! June  : You look so busy today. What are you doing? March : I'm doing my school homework.     Can you help me with it? June  : I'm afraid I can't. I'm having a meeting at 8.00 a.m.     What about doing it tonight? *) March : I think that's good idea.     See you later, June! June  : See you! At the dialoq above we can find expression that states about something happening at a time of speaking. note: *) Gerund after preposition /about/ I'm doing my school homework. The sentence above is called : Present Progressive Tense. We use this tense when we would like to express something happen at a time of speaking or something that occurs at a time and still in progress. The main pattern of the sentence is : I'm doing. The pattern is constructed by One personal pronoun which positions as a Subject, The present auxilliary /am/ ['m=am] or be...

There are many ways to express something happen, like: What's the Matter? This question is used when something we don't know happen and we need to know what exactly happened at that time. This question is usually expressed spontaneously and almost the same time at speaking. Besides, We also can use this following expression: - What's Up? - What's going on? - What happenned? - What is it? - What's Wrong? All expressions above are almost the same in meaning. Those are different in the way we stress. For examples: The expression "What's wrong?" has small different with "What's up? or what's going on?. "What's wrong" tends to ask something whether it is right or wrong. I mean ... Are the things okay? or is there something wrong with it?. "What's up or what's going on" is usually used when something happenned in a process of time of speaking. This probably makes Indonesian's speakers as no...

Most of Indonesian learners find difficulties in Expressing a Question. They do not know when to use questions words or other, say, particles, like do, does, did, have ,etc to construct a question. Here, Let me help you with it. There are two types of questions In English, they are: 1. Yes/No Question, and 2. WH-Question. Yes-No Question is a question which has only two answers logically needed, they are: [yes] or [No]. This type of question is characterized by placing One Auxilliary in the beginning of a sentence. For example: Do you know me? The word "DO" is one of auxilliaries in English. You can use, like; Does, did, have, has, will or others and "be" instead /do/. However, the use of each auzilliaries above depends on the type of sentence and tense being used. For instance, you would like to give one a question about what he or she did in the night weekend.  Then you can say: " Did you find my key last night?" Here, you use /did/. It is bec...

There are many ways to say sorry to someone. This is expressed when someone feels regretful or sorry of something done to someone else (Althought the deed is done unexpectedly). Some of them are; I am sorry I am so sorry I am awfully sorry I am terribly sorry I am very sorry Please forgive me I do apologize The adverb of quality "so" here, is to stress the feeling of apology. You also can say : "Sorry ..." without subject and the verb. In Formal situation, you also can say; Excuse me. or, Pardon me.

There are many ways to express something in English. For example: What's your name? The question is to find information about one name of a person. Besides, we can say other expressions which will be discussed below. 1. To find information about NAME: What's your name? When you use the expression, It means that you really don't know one's name. Are you Mr....?, or Are you miss ...? This expression is used to guess whether the name is in the blank (you fill). Could you tell me your name?, or May I know your name? This expression is the same as /what's your name?/. But, it is used to find out one's name politely. Nice to meet you Mr .... The blank in this expression is one's name but not mentioned by you. Here, The name will be mentioned by someone you address. Your name please. This expression is used when we register or check in and should fill in the form of registration. It is said by the staff of registration, e.g. receptionist or reserva...