MLA AfterSchoolPlus (mission)

AfterSchoolPlus        

課後特功隊

A. What We Do

Help your students:

• to prepare for coming lessons

• to finish homework
• to have higher self-esteems

B. How We Do It

• Use strategies tailor-made for underperforming students
• Use language and examples that your students can understand

C. Schools We Are Serving

Hong Kong Island	CCC Kung Lee College
Kowloon	Lok Sin Tong Wong Chung Ming Secondary School
New Territories	Saint Francis of Assisi’s College

(Through the recommendation from our partner, Social Enterprise, Hong Kong Playground Association (香港遊樂場協會 社會企業部))

      

          

Here you are, a summary of the differences:

British (Nottingham)	American (Los Angeles)
biscuit	cookie
plaster	band aid
crisps	chips
chips	French Fries
football	soccer
trainers	sneakers
jumper	sweater
trousers	pants
pants	underpants
mobile phone	cell phone

So ‘chips’ means long, thin piece of potato (French Fries) in England but a small, flat piece of fried food in the USA.  

Grammar for Writing Emails: Reply (2)

Summary: In the previous post you have learnt  that 'I will reply your email' is wrong.  In this post, we will further explain why and link the verb 'reply' to a sentence pattern that you have learnt.   




A. Reply & Sentence Pattern

If you remember, this is a sentence pattern you have learned at school.  

What pattern is it? The pattern of 'SVO'.

Subject	Verb	Object
Ms Talk.	made	a speech           (at a meeting)

Yet, your teacher might have forgotten to tell you one thing. In 'SVO' there is a special relationship between a subject and an object.  

By special, I don’t mean they have an affair. What I mean is in the pattern of 'SVO' a subject has some control over the object.

Put simply, in this pattern one thing is bigger.  Which one is bigger?  A subject is bigger than an object. In other words, If a subject is a master, then an object is like a servant.  


And do you want to give the relationship a name? What about MS?  MS has nothing to do with any company. It means a Master-servant relationship.






B. Correct Usage: Reply to your email

However, in the case of ‘I will reply your email soon’, the word ‘I’ is not the master of ‘your email’.  

What does that mean? ‘I’ is not the one who wrote the email. In other words, 'I' write something, but not the email 'I' received.  It is Mr Big, not 'I', who wrote the email.  

In other words, Mr Big is the master (subject) of the servant (the email).    

So, when using ‘reply’ as a verb, stick to the following rule:

Person	Verb	+ Preposition	Thing
I	will reply	to	your email (soon)

That is, when there is no MS relationship, a preposition is needed. This is why when you use ‘wait’, you have to add a preposition: Wait FOR me, but not ‘Wait me’.  




C. Quick Tip

So, the Feel Good Tip is 'Re + Re'. What does that mean?

reply + to  ------------>   (reply + preposition)

       



 
D: More Examples from Everyday life

The same tip also applies to:

'I will write to you.' 

or 

'I will talk to you'.

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