2012년 4월 18일 수요일

I'm loving it!

"I'm loving it. " seems to odd. but, we're getting used to using it? aren't we?
It's a grammartically wrong sentence. When we use continuous tense we have some rules for whether some verbs can be used or not. We call the stative verbs for not using continuous verbs. There are emotional verb as need, want,love, like, dislike and hate, possesive verbs as belong, have, and own, and verbs that thoughtt or opinion as know, think, and recognize.
So we learn those word not to use for wrong usage but, language is constantly changing so that we often hear grammartically wrong sentence in some cases, but we are accepting at some point.
Even we keep hearing "i'm loving it." , but we should at least teach our student to know that it's a wrong sentence.

2012년 4월 5일 목요일

Lightning and Lightening- Grammar girl

Haven't thought about the difference those two words. Sounds pretty much the same so that it can be misspelled and can lead some confusion when i come to think of it. The lightning is for a flash from the sky, and the lightening can mean by two which are making bright and lifting a burden from one's shoulders. Here is one more word that one single letter can make another meaning. I shouldn't take it for granted, I should take it seriously to be more clear.
There are two phrasal verbs which come to different meanings.
Light up - shine, light (up) a cigar // Lighten up - Cheer up, chin up

Grammar girl-Neither A nor B

Seaching for the neither which hasn't been figured out before the search, I finally got the answer for my long curiosity. I wasn't sure which verb to use for neither A nor B, but i got the clear image for this. The use of singular verb and plurar verb depend on the closer noun from verb. Before I hear the clear definiton, I just follow the grammar rules for crrelative conjunction. No native speakers are saying why and how to use for this clearly. It could be nothing to others, but it was someting to me to know.!