MLA AfterSchoolPlus (mission)

AfterSchoolPlus        
課後特功


A. What We Do

Help your students:


  • to prepare for coming lessons
  • to finish homework
  • to have higher self-esteems

B. How We Do It



  • Use strategies tailor-made for underperforming students
  • Use language and examples that your students can understand

C. Schools We Are Serving



Hong Kong Island
CCC Kung Lee College
Kowloon
Lok Sin Tong Wong Chung Ming Secondary School
New Territories
Saint Francis of Assisi’s College


(Through the recommendation from our partner, Social Enterprise, Hong Kong Playground Association (香港遊樂場協會 社會企業部))


      


          





Here you are, a summary of the differences:


British
(Nottingham)
American
(Los Angeles)
biscuit
cookie
plaster
band aid
crisps
chips
chips
French Fries
football
soccer
trainers
sneakers
jumper
sweater
trousers
pants
pants
underpants
mobile phone
cell phone

fast food.jpgSo ‘chips’ means long, thin piece of potato (French Fries) in England but a small, flat piece of fried food in the USA.  

Grammar for Writing Emails: Reply (2)

Summary: In the previous post you have learnt  that 'I will reply your email' is wrong.  In this post, we will further explain why and link the verb 'reply' to a sentence pattern that you have learnt.   




A. Reply & Sentence Pattern

If you remember, this is a sentence pattern you have learned at school.  

What pattern is it? The pattern of 'SVO'.




SubjectVerbObject
Ms Talk.madea speech           (at a meeting)




Yet, your teacher might have forgotten to tell you one thing. In 'SVO' there is a special relationship between a subject and an object.  

By special, I don’t mean they have an affair. What I mean is in the pattern of 'SVO' a subject has some control over the object.








Put simply, in this pattern one thing is bigger.  Which one is bigger?  A subject is bigger than an object. In other words, If a subject is a master, then an object is like a servant.  


And do you want to give the relationship a name? What about MS?  MS has nothing to do with any company. It means a Master-servant relationship.






B. Correct Usage: Reply to your email

However, in the case of ‘I will reply your email soon’, the word ‘I’ is not the master of ‘your email’.  


What does that mean? ‘I’ is not the one who wrote the email. In other words, 'I' write something, but not the email 'I' received.  It is Mr Big, not 'I', who wrote the email.  

In other words, Mr Big is the master (subject) of the servant (the email).    












So, when using ‘reply’ as a verb, stick to the following rule:



Person
Verb
+ Preposition
Thing
     I
will reply
          to
your email (soon)



That is, when there is no MS relationship, a preposition is needed. This is why when you use ‘wait’, you have to add a preposition: Wait FOR me, but not ‘Wait me’.  




C. Quick Tip


So, the Feel Good Tip is 'Re + Re'. What does that mean?




reply + to  ------------>   (reply + preposition)

       



 
D: More Examples from Everyday life



The same tip also applies to:

'I will write to you.' 

or 

'I will talk to you'.
















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