Loanwords between Cantonese and English
When you start to learn Cantonese, you will notice that there are many English loanwords like bus (巴士: baa1 si), taxi (的士: dik1 si6), cheese (芝士: ji1 si6). Since Hong Kong was British colony...
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Lesson 7. The Complete Guide of Adjectives in English
What is an adjective? Adjectives, which is one of the parts of speech, are words that used to describe nouns or pronouns. Adjectives give information about opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, material, or...
Lesson 5. What You Need to Know about Nouns in English
What is a noun? A noun is a word that represents a person, animal, plant, place, thing, or idea. It can be either singular or plural. What are the characteristics of nouns? Nouns...
Lesson 11. Simple Future Tense in English
What is simple future tense? Simple future tense is used to indicate things or actions that have not happened yet. As long as the time of the actions takes place later than now, they...
Lesson 9. The Complete Guide to Time in English
Knowing how to tell the time in the correct way will make you look like a native when you are visiting an English-speaking country. Recommended background: The Complete Guide of Numbers in English. Let’s...
Lesson 4. The Complete Guide about Pronouns in English
Pronouns are used to replace nouns or noun phrases in a sentence. They are used to refer a person, a thing, a group of people, or a group of things. There are different types...
Lesson 10. Simple Past Tense in English
What is simple past tense? Simple past tense is a verb tense that indicates a completed action that happened in the past. The past is all the past, it can happen in yesterday, one...
Lesson 3. Using Noun Quantifiers in English
There are a lot of words that we can use to express quantity in English, such as much, many, a lot of, plenty of, a little, a few, some, any, etc. In general, the...
Lesson 13. Dummy Subject: Existence in English
One of the characteristics of English complete sentences is the requirement of a subject. However, if the subject is not available in the sentence, ‘there is, there are and it is’ are used to...
Lesson 2. Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives in English
Demonstrative words – this, that, these, those – are words that show which person or thing is being referred to. There are two types of demonstratives: demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative adjectives. Basically, demonstrative pronouns...
Lesson 14. The Complete Guide to Verb TO HAVE in English
After the verb to be, ‘the verb to have’ ranks as the second most commonly used verb in English. The verb to have in English can be used as the main verb or an auxiliary...
Confusing Words: Come vs Go in English
Do you know that the concept of the verb come and go in Japanese and English are different? Not only that, the usage of come vs go in English itself may be very confusing...
Lesson 15. The Complete Guide to Verb TO BE in English
The verb to be is probably one of the most irregular verbs in English. It does need more attention as we use the verb to be so much often in sentences. Let’s master the...
Lesson 1. Simple Present Tense: The Most Common Tense in English
Simple present tense is one of the commonly used verb tense in English. What is simple present tense? Simple present tense is a verb tense that indicates an action that is happening regularly,...
Lesson 6. Articles in English Does Not Have to Be Hard
The articles ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’, are important words that we use in almost every sentence in English. Articles are words that modify a noun. There are two kinds of articles: definite and indefinite....
Lesson 12. The Complete Guide to Comparative and Superlative Adjectives in English
Comparative Adjectives We use comparative adjectives to compare two objects. It is used to describe an object that has a higher degree of quality than another one. We can form comparative adjectives by ‘attaching...
Lesson 8. English Numbers: The Complete Guide (Up to 10^100)
After learning numbers in Chinese, French, and Japanese, you will learn about English numbers today! In fact, English numbers are easy yet tricky. Let’s get started! Cardinal Numbers vs Ordinal Numbers We use...
Lesson 16. Understanding the Difference Between Which and That
The answer is ‘no’. Just because they are both used for introducing relative clauses does not mean that they have the same usage. The quick rule to get it right: If you could...
10 English Idioms You Need to Know!
An idiom is a phrase or a group of words that has a metaphorical meaning. Next time, use these idioms to make you sound more like a native English speaker! Better Late than...
The Correct Way to Use “High” and “Tall”
High and tall, are used to describe vertical distance and length. These two words seem like synonyms, but they are not really the same. High High expresses elevation, the distance of an...
