Learn English Language (Bored of Advice and advise)

[chonburifc]

Football in this context is referring to the game and not the ball...ie play cricket, play hockey.
When referring to the ball then you use the correct action which is kick...ie kick the football.

After spending some time on internet. Found out Sports and Academic nouns does not goes with THE, eg, The Mathematics or The Science is wrong.

 

[po2wq]

... Q01. 'He plays the piano.' but why not 'He plays the football.'?

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/articlestext.htm

scroll down ... look @ no article ...

 

[chonburifc]

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/articlestext.htm

scroll down ... look @ no article ...

Hehehe. Thanks po2wq. Yeap, that is one of the website I am learning from now.

 

[chonburifc]

Hehehe. Here's Q02.

Q02. Will versus Shall. Is Shall obsolete?

 

[jw5]

Hehehe. Here's Q02.

Q02. Will versus Shall. Is Shall obsolete?

I shall, We shall.
You will, he will, she will.
Can use I will or we will to emphasize their will.

 

[chonburifc]

I shall, We shall.
You will, he will, she will.
Can use I will or we will to emphasize their will.

Thanks JW, think the Yankees don't use Shall liaoz except in some legal or ancient documents. Remember the famous Terminator Arnold phrase "I'll be back"?

 

[jw5]

Thanks JW, think the Yankees don't use Shall liaoz except in some legal or ancient documents. Remember the famous Terminator Arnold phrase "I'll be back"?

I sha'LL be back.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Thanks JW, think the Yankees don't use Shall liaoz except in some legal or ancient documents. Remember the famous Terminator Arnold phrase "I'll be back"?

Little trival...
I'll be back...was actually first made famous by darth vader in star wars.
Arnold brought it to greater heights.

 

[jw5]

Little trival...
I'll be back...was actually first made famous by darth vader in star wars.
Arnold brought it to greater heights.

Bro, since this is english language thread, it should be trivia, not trival.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Bro, since this is english language thread, it should be trivia, not trival.

Would you believe if I say I did it on purpose?
I'll have you know I got A1 for my GP and distinction for my S-paper Lit back then.....good enough for law school

 

[jw5]

Would you believe if I say I did it on purpose?
I'll have you know I got A1 for my GP and distinction for my S-paper Lit back then.....good enough for law school

Of course I believe.

 

[looneytan]

Gen. Douglas McArthur _ "I shall return"

 

[looneytan]

.....good enough for law school

..... but you chose lawless school

 

[Raiders]

Would you believe if I say I did it on purpose?
I'll have you know I got A1 for my GP and distinction for my S-paper Lit back then.....good enough for law school

So what went wrong along the way?

 

[manfrommars]

Did not study hard during my secondary school (always thinking of girls) so got a C6 for English Language in my 'O' levels (considered an achievement for me. )

Learn some English informally during my working life and maybe a few power phrases or words in SBF. :p As I have been residing in LOS for sometime, level of English really go downhill. Started this thread to improve on English language so please don't sacarstic me hor.

Q01. 'He plays the piano.' but why not 'He plays the football.'?

Why do Singaporeans not speak English? It is the native language of the country.

How can you call yourself Singaporean?

 

[blackmondy]

Because a piano is bigger than a football, that's why 'the piano'. If the thing is small, just 'football' will do. So for big things, use 'the', for small things, forget the 'the'.

Anymore questions, please don't hesitate to post here. Thank you.

No wonder we say "Don't talk cock" instead of "Don't talk the cock". The cock must be bigger than football field.

 

[yinyang]

"May God bless you" but people usually short-cut and say "God bless you"

Bless is one if those words without plural la....machiam sinkie sheep...1 is sheep....100 also sheep

AG's possibly right. Bless in this context is a verb, unlike the blessed.

Found out Sports and Academic nouns does not goes with THE, eg, The Mathematics or The Science is wrong

Bang on. Btw, surely you cannot allow your angrit to degenerate if you hit off with that russkie target. Free english lessons to trade for lessons on life:p

 

[erection2015]

sure or not mr Martian?

Why do Singaporeans not speak English? It is the native language of the country.

 

[halsey02]

Boss, I dunoe why this is the case. I only know that the article "the" precedes musical instruments whereas there's no article before sports. I'm guessing that the reason why "the" is used before musical instruments is because you need to specify which instrument you're playing whereas football is football, there's no other football out there that needs to be specified.

American football, Australian football..!!??

 

[yinyang]

sure or not mr Martian?

Nein, it's only native with gals from Venus:p