Educative! #Thumbs up#. I hear this a lot; 'character assassination' the right thing is defamation not assassination

laplace19:

Thanks,bro....but one more thing

Since "have you" goes with a past verb,can one say "Have you ate"?

The sentence does not even sound well,but "Have you eaten"? Sounds correct.

"Eaten" is a past participle.... With this now,I think "have you" should go with past participle form of verbs,and for those verbs that do not have their past participle,the "have you" should then go with their past verbs.

Do you agree with me,sir?

Actually, "have" is used with the past participle and not the simple past. In the construction: Have you brushed ... "brushed" is actually the past participle form of "brush" and not the simple past form of the word.

1)The word "severally" does not mean mean several times. It means individually, one by one. As seen in " you all are jointly & severally responsible for the mishap". I find the misuse of this word to be very common. Even respected media houses arent left out,
both print&electronic.
2)It is wrong to say "can be able" or "can't be able". "Can" means "to be able".

Oddsam: hi, when do I use 'has' and 'have' in a sentence?

In English, there are three "persons": the 1st (I, we), 2nd (you) and 3rd persons (he, she, it, Ada, they). The examples in brackets above are all in the subjective case. We also have the objective case: 1st person (me, us) and the possessive case: 1st person (my, our). It is, indeed, quite complex.

With regard to your question, use "has" only with the 3rd person singular. Examples:
He has bought ...
She has done ...
It has not been ...
Ada has just ...

In all other cases (1st person singular or plural; 2nd person singular or plural; 3rd person plural), use "have". Examples:
I have bought ...
We have done ...
You have not ...
They have just ...

Hope you don't find this too technical.

Some other common errors:
If was sent on exile. (He was sent into exile.)

I will pay instalmentally. (I will pay in instalments.) Instalmentally is NOT a word.

Is he a boy or a girl? (Is it a boy or a girl?)

She is good in biology. (She is good at biology.)

Some other common errors:
Excuse, could you ... (Excuse me, could you ...)

He has not been opportuned to ... (He has not got an opportune moment to ...) opportuned is NOT a word!

He is enjoying. (He is enjoying himself/it) enjoy, just like resemble, is a transitive verb and must be used with an object.

She is a talkative. (She is talkative/ she is a talkative girl).

He asked a favour from me. (He asked a favour of me)

Repent from your sins. (Repent of your sins)

Well done job @OP

d_myke: Some other common errors:
If was sent on exile. (He was sent into exile.)

I will pay instalmentally. (I will pay in instalments.) Instalmentally is NOT a word.

Is he a boy or a girl? (Is it a boy or a girl?)

She is good in biology. (She is good at biology.)

could u pls back it up with grammatical rules "is it a boy or girl" n using TH after writting month or day in word........thanks in anticipation!

laplace19:

Thanks,bro....but one more thing

Since "have you" goes with a past verb,can one say "Have you ate"?

The sentence does not even sound well,but "Have you eaten"? Sounds correct.

"Eaten" is a past participle.... With this now,I think "have you" should go with past participle form of verbs,and for those verbs that do not have their past participle,the "have you" should then go with their past verbs.

Do you agree with me,sir?

Yeah, you are very correct, that was what I had in mind, but ended up typing another thing. You know how these things are, when you are trying to answer a lot of questions. It should be past participle. "Brushed" is the past tense of brush and also its past participle. There is nothing like "brushen".

d_myke:
Actually, "have" is used with the past participle and not the simple past. In the construction: Have you brushed ... "brushed" is actually the past participle form of "brush" and not the simple past form of the word.

Yep

d_myke: Some other common errors:
Excuse, could you ... (Excuse me, could you ...)

He has not been opportuned to ... (He has not got an opportune moment to ...) opportuned is NOT a word!

He is enjoying. (He is enjoying himself/it) enjoy, just like resemble, is a transitive verb and must be used with an object.

She is a talkative. (She is talkative/ she is a talkative girl).

He asked a favour from me. (He asked a favour of me)

Repent from your sins. (Repent of your sins)

Nice one there

Manys cellebrity cannots spoke gooder english thats becauses of they is not very enducated.

piaget+skinner:

Nice one bro!....is it correct to use this sentence "the doctor with whom I was referred to you by, said...."

I don't understand the example you gave. You can say, "The doctor, who referred me to you, said..." It is "who", not "whom" (in the example that I gave), because "the doctor" was the first person that was mentioned in the sentence and he's the one the sentence was built around; I was reporting what the doctor said.

1.Obansanjo is an alumni of Open University....shouldn't it have been he is an alumnus?

2.This is the only criteria.......should be the only criterion.

3.I am in a haste.....should be I am in haste.

4.Get him on phone...should be get him on the phone.

5.He is a military personnel...should be he is a military officer (personnel and staff are used for a group of people).

6.This is more better....it should be this is much better.

7.I do this everyday....should be I do this every day.

H.C.F:

.....our educational system is in a shambles NOT our educational system is in shambles.
The word shambles is always used with article 'a' despite its 'plural' nature.
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What do you say on these:http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/shambles.html?

@OP...pls what's the difference between "can" and "could"...as in

1. you "could" write this on your site...
2. you "can" write this on your site...

lathyph: Well done job @OP
could u pls back it up with grammatical rules "is it a boy or girl" n using TH after writting month or day in word........thanks in anticipation!

Second question first; do you mean writing “th” as in 13th? If this is what you mean, then you’re talking about Ordinal Numbers (words representing rank or position). In the past, it was quite common to find ordinal numbers written in superscript (elevated above the baseline as in 13^th and 3^rd). However, the convention these days is for everything to be written on the same baseline as in 13th and 3rd. If this was not what you had in mind, then I hope you clarify.

First question; again contemporary convention demands that gender-neutral pronouns be used where the gender of a noun is unknown (this has been discussed above). So, we say: Tell the student that took it to bring their mother to school. In the past, it was the norm to use a masculine pronoun even if gender was unknown. However, with the rise of feminism, this practice was abandoned. For a time, female pronouns were even used where the gender was unknown. Him/her and he/she have always been clumsy, so the use of gender-neutral pronouns is really the best we can do. For now at least.

Hope this helps.

I had to read from page one to six to make sure I grasp all...Thanks to you OP and all those that intellectually contributed.

But I will still like you guys to shine more light on "cannot" and "can not".

Thanks.

ChiSun27: I had to read from page one to six to make sure I grasp all...Thanks to you OP and all those that intellectually contributed.

But I will still like you guys to shine more light on "cannot" and "can not".

Thanks.

I would still like you......use would instead of will.

Vonwolf: You can't eat your cake and have it vs you can't have your cake and eat it...

The second one is correct.

To shed more light not shine light......am also a learner,though!

ChiSun27: I had to read from page one to six to make sure I grasp all...Thanks to you OP and all those that intellectually contributed.

But I will still like you guys to shine more light on "cannot" and "can not".

Thanks.

JMOI: Yeah, you are very correct, that was what I had in mind, but ended up typing another thing. You know how these things are, when you are trying to answer a lot of questions. It should be past participle. "Brushed" is the past tense of brush and also its past participle. There is nothing like "brushen".

Lolz...ok,understood

I'm very happy for this...have really learnt a lot...and I must say.....GOOD ENGLISH dey sweet die

Some one should kindly help(grammatical rules) with the correct usage of "WITH" "AND"

lathyph: To shed more light not shine light......am also a learner,though!

Cannot and can not are both correct expressions, and mean the same thing. You should note that "cannot" is almost always used instead of can not. "Can not" is sometimes used for emphasis as in:
I can not agree to that. (Where you wish to stress the negative marker "not".

In addition, can not is preferred to cannot where "not" forms part of another construction within the sentence as in:
I can not only buy it, I can buy all of them.

Aside from these two cases, always write cannot instead of can not.

ChiSun27: I had to read from page one to six to make sure I grasp all...Thanks to you OP and all those that intellectually contributed.

But I will still like you guys to shine more light on "cannot" and "can not".

Thanks.

That's very good.

Please try to shed light on these: corner and road bend

Al-hasan:
Please try to shed light on these: corner and road bend

Corner can be just any bend, but a road bend specifically means where the road bends. I hope this's what you were looking for.

Nice thread. Can we have someone to explain these words 'a few, few, a little, little?'

'a few' simply means many but it attracts singular verb while 'many' attracts plural verb. They're both used with countable noun. Few denotes limited quantity of things. It is also used with countable noun.

On the other hand,
'Little' or 'a little' are both used with uncountable nouns. 'a little' means much while 'little' limited value. That's my submission though.

Plz, I heard from some1 that 'Clap for him' is not correct that we should always say 'Clap him'. He cited an example that we can't say 'Slap for him'. Plz expantiate

I think d person is grammatically right. If u can check page 257 of d Advanced learners dictionary, u will see it there."Everyone clapped us when we went up to get our prize."

Plz i want beta explaination on how to use relative clauses like 'When,Whom,Whose,Who,Which & That'. Plzzzzz

JMOI: It should go with a past tense. Just like "Have you brushed your teeth?"

Honestly, I thought u were sound in the knowledge of this English laguage,now I know u really do not understand the language, u probably dubbed from someone. For crying out loud! How can "Have you" go with a past tense? E.g Have u ate your food?
"Have you" goes with past participle. E.g Have u eaten your food?
Your own example "Have you brushed your teeth?" Is correct not because the "brushed" there is past tense but that it is past participle of "brush".