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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

STOP DOING THING THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE!!


What are the things that you do not like? Do you like other people talking back and stabbing back on you, or you do not? Whatever the question the answer must be from you, just remember The Golden Rule. Treat people like you want them to treat you, it is a win win situation where you invest to other people at no cost. There will be no big return in short term period, but in return you will have a potential return on that investment.

This time I want to bring to you a very wonderful story that made me thinking and laughing. This story was taken from Success Mastery Academy by Brian Tracy about two construction workers having lunch. As they open up their lunch boxes, Joe totally “flips out” that his lunch is a sardine sandwich and goes on about how much he hates sardine sandwiches. In turn Bob offers to share his tuna sandwich with Joe, but Joe insists it will be okay; but he just can’t stand sardine sandwiches. Well, the next day at lunch as they open their lunch boxes, Joe again gets very upset that his lunch contains a SARDINE sandwich. He can’t believe it since he hates sardine sandwiches so much. Then, believe it or not, on the third day as they open up their lunch box, again there it is, a sardine sandwich. By now Bob has had it and says to Joe “If you hate sardine sandwiches so much tell your wife to quit making them and to give you something else”, at which time Joe tells Bob, “Oh, I’m not married, I make my own lunch every day”.

What a wonderful story and unique lesson to learn, I hope you enjoy the story.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

How to Write English Sentences


Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. By William Strunk Jr. in Elements of Style.

Before you write an English sentence some decisions have to be made.

1. What is the single or complete thought that you are stating, describing, explaining or asking.

2. What type of sentence best matches your thought: declarative, imperative, interrogative or exclamatory.

3. Which of six basic English sentence construction formats best suits your sentence.

1. No Verb Complement
2. Direct Object Verb Complement
3. Indirect and Direct Object Verb Complements
4. Predicate Nominative Verb Complement
5. Predicate Adjective Verb Complement
6. Direct Object and Objective Complement

For our example of English sentence writing we will start with a basic thought.

Ross teaches.

This is a simple subject and verb sentence and states the core of my thought. This core sentence subject and verb can be added to, modified, or enhanced. We can change the subject by exchanging the noun Ross for a pronoun He.

He teaches.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding an article, adjective, demonstrative, possessive or a combination to the subject.

The older Ross teaches.
The blonde Ross teaches.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by changing the verb tense.

Ross will teach. - add "will" to create a future tense
Ross has taught. - add "has" to create a perfect tense

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding an adverb.

He teaches well.
He teaches thoroughly.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding a phrase.

Ross teaches in the college.
Ross teaches in Canada and the USA.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding a clause.

Ross was teaching when the rainstorm began.
Ross was teaching when the hockey playoff's started.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding an object.

Ross teaches students.
Ross teaches adults.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding adjectives to describe the object.

Ross teaches international students.
Ross teaches international business professionals.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding phrases to describe the object.

Ross teaches international students from Asia and Europe.
Ross teaches international business professionals from large multi-national corporations.

We can modify the sentence to provide a more accurate expression of my thought by adding clauses to enhance the object.

Ross teaches international students from Asia and Europe that booked classes directly from his website.

The process of writing an English sentence is much easier when the writer starts with a basic thought and systematically uses all the English writing tools to accurately express the complete thought.

One advanced English writing skill is understanding when one thought is really two thoughts that should be expressed separately. The following is an example:

(Incorrect - Ross teaches international students that booked classes directly from his website in Canada from Asia and Europe.)

(better as two sentences) Ross teaches international students from Asia and Europe in Canada. Ross' students booked classes directly from his website.

Additional FREE Sentence Master English language education articles are available in the author Bio links.

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