Dynamic Verbs and Stative Verbs

Verbs are classified into two categories. 

1. Dynamic verbs 

2. Stative verbs

Dynamic verbs are also called action verbs. They can be used in the progressive (continuous) form.

Example: "Peter is playing now."

Stative verbs refer to a state or condition which is not changing or likely to change.

Stative verbs cannot normally be used in the progressive (continuous) form (ing form).

Example: "John wants a cup of coffee."

Dummy Pronouns It and There

We use the term dummy pronoun to refer to the pronouns it and there used as grammatical subjects without any meaning, but with a relation to another element in the clause that carries the meaning.

English makes use of dummy pronouns in subject position.

‘It’ and ‘there’ are used in different contexts.

Look at these examples:

What time is it?  

It’s six o'clock.  

It’s raining. 

It’s time for lunch.

How far is it from here to London?

There was a tiger in this jungle.

There were a lot of people outside the police station.

There was an earthquake in the early morning. 

Sleepless Nights

Dialogue (conversation) between a doctor and a patient.

The patient has a problem of sleepless nights.

Patient: Good morning, Doctor!

Doctor: Good morning, what is your Problem?

Patient: Doctor, I have a problem of not getting proper sleep at night?

Doctor: I’ll give you a medicine. You’ll become alright.

Patient: Thank You Doctor. How often should I take the medicine?

Doctor: Just take a pill about 30 minutes before going to bed.

Patient: For how long?

Doctor: For thirty days. Come back if you do not get a proper sleep.

Patient: Is there anything else?

Doctor: Don't worry so much about things at work.

Patient: Thank you.

Doctor: You are always welcome.

An Ode to the Spell Checker

Eye have a spelling checker

It came with my pea sea

It clearly marks four my revue

Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong awe write

It shows me strait a way

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

It’s rare lea ever wrong

Eye have run this poem threw it

Eye am shore your pleased two no

It’s letter perfect awl the weigh

My checker tolled me sew!

Narrate a story

I saw this marvelous drawing in a marriage hall in Devakottai, a Chettinadu town in Sivaganga district of Tamilnadu, India.

Speaking in English is important as a workout (as an exercise). Look at this art and speak anything. Enter your comments here. You may comment anything. Guide others to have a practice so as to achieve speaking fluent English.

Fault Finding

Find Fault to learn English 

Exercise yourself by correcting the “Bakery English” in the image.

 This is an edited image from a cake box of a bakery in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.

Remainder Vs Reminder

A learner usually gets confused between the two words, ‘remainder’ and ‘reminder’.

Remainder is related to remaining and reminder is related to mind.

Remainder:

Remainder is something leftover.

For example if number 43 is divided by 4 we get 10 as quotient and 3 as remainder.

      

                     4) 43 (10

                      ______

                          3

                      ______

“Stella drank the remainder of her tea and left the restaurant.”

• The remainder means the things that are left when everything else has gone.

• The remainder means the people who are left when everyone else has gone.

• The remainder means the things that are left when everything else has been dealt with.

• The remainder means the people who are left when everyone else has been dealt with.

Reminder:

• Reminder is something that makes someone to remember something.

• Reminder is a message sent to remind someone to complete a job assigned within stipulated time.

• Also, reminder is something that makes someone to remember something else.

“This old bicycle is the reminder of my father, who maintained it properly for about seventy years and used to ride it everywhere for business.”

Reminder is a message sent to remind someone to do something.

“James sent a reminder to Joseph to complete his pending job.”