How to Agree

Do you know that ‘I am agree with you’ is wrong? By ‘wrong’ I mean it is ABSOLUTELY WRONG. If you speak or write this kind of English, you are going down. But how can you write and speak better English?

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First of all, you have to understand what's wrong with 'I am agree with you.' If you speak an Asian language you may think there is nothing wrong with it. Yet, in English, the problem has something to do with paring.  ‘Am’ and ‘Agree’ can't come together. You have to treat them like enemies, like two men fighting.

Furthermore, if you let your imagination flow, you can think of them (am VS agree) as two different superwomen. So, for most of the time, they don’t like each other.  It’s not hard to imagine what will happen when you pair them up

 

AM VS AGREE

Guess who will win?

Other similar wrong pairs include:

	Superwoman 1	Superwoman 2
You	are	enjoy	the show.	WRONG
The iPad	is	belong to	me.	WRONG
I	am	like	Steve (because he is charming).	WRONG

So how are you going to solve the problem of ‘mispairing’? Separate them.  But before you separate them, you have to answer one question.  Which side are you on?  What do I mean?  Which one do you want to use, ‘am’ or ‘agree’?

Superwoman 1 VS Superwoman 2

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If you are on the side of ‘am’, what follows is your choice: I am with you.  

Well, what about if you are on the side of ‘agree’, then it is: I agree with you.    

So at the end no one gets hurt, right? Well, though they don’t want to see each other, there are times that the two super women come together, without any fighting.  When?  When they meet each other at a friend’s party, they don’t fight.

Why? Well, there are two rules for this party.  What are the rules?

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Rule no. 1:  passive voice

What is passive voice (PV)? You use PV when you begin a sentence with a thing (such as a computer, or a smart phone).  Want an example?

The term was (past tense of ‘is’) agreed by my boss.

(was + agreed)

Or you don’t know who the doer is, for example:

The message was sent by someone.  

(was + sent)

Or, a practical reason is when you make a mistake, you may say:  

The mistake was made.  

(was + made)

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Rule no. 2:  when something ‘is’ still happening

When something is still happening, you use is (am, or are) and a verb + ing. Want an example? You don’t know why a friend (you don't like) is at your home.  Instead of asking why you may say:

What are you doing here?

(are + doING)

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So the Feel Good tip is: Unless you have good reasons (the above two rules), separate Superwoman ‘AM’ from Superwoman ‘AGREE’. So the two ways are:

I am with you.

I agree with you.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/76029035@N02/6829534265/sizes/m/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miggslives/4320894619/sizes/m/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1derwoman/6998850251/sizes/m/in/photostream/
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