Learn English Grammar In Focus

When expressing something in English, we, as second language speakers, often finds mistakes in choosing  a word and the status of it in our pattern. In this case, we will discuss about when we use Bare-infinitive and To Infinitive. Bare-Infinitive is a base verb which has no"TO" in front of a verb, like; Speak (Bare-Infinitive) To speak (To Infinitive) For Indonesian learners, the differences, specially in its usage, takes a lot of time and energy to find the best answer. This topic, I hop, will solve the problem. Bare-Infinitive is always placed at: 1. After a subject, as in; Many people respect the hero. The word /respect/ is bare-inf. and the /many people/ is the subject. There will be a mistake when we say; Many people to respect the hero. 2. After object of certain verbs (e.g. let, help (USA),make etc), as in; He makes me cry . They never let me go . Please help me fix the car. (USA) Certain verbs here are makes, let and help. And, the bare-in

Talking about something happened in the past time can not be avoided from daily speaking, specially in English Language. All non native speakers should understand enough about the structure of it. Someone who speaks with his or her own language, sometimes, doesn't realize that he or she speaks with some structures. Structure of A sentence which describes past event will be related to the past form or pattern. This rule should be learned by all English learners when he or she wants to express something happened in the past time. There are two types of patterns in Expressing Past Event: 1. Nominal Pattern 2. Verbal Pattern In Nominal Pattern, we should use Be-past (Was or Were) and place non verbs after it. For example: Was ------- +    Non-Verb Were Note that We use /Was/ when t he subject is I, She, H e or It and We use /Were/ when the subject is We, They and You. For Example; I was ill yesterday. Take notice that the word /ill/ is an adjective (we also say

Study this following dialoq! June  : Morning March! March : Morning! June  : You look so busy today. What are you doing? March : I'm doing my school homework.     Can you help me with it? June  : I'm afraid I can't. I'm having a meeting at 8.00 a.m.     What about doing it tonight? *) March : I think that's good idea.     See you later, June! June  : See you! At the dialoq above we can find expression that states about something happening at a time of speaking. note: *) Gerund after preposition /about/ I'm doing my school homework. The sentence above is called : Present Progressive Tense. We use this tense when we would like to express something happen at a time of speaking or something that occurs at a time and still in progress. The main pattern of the sentence is : I'm doing. The pattern is constructed by One personal pronoun which positions as a Subject, The present auxilliary /am/ ['m=am] or be-present and the present partici