ENNglish

  Learn ENNglish   Wishes and hypotheses   Wishes We use past tense forms to talk  about wishes: We use past tense modals would and could to talk about wishes for the future : I don’t like my work. I wish I could get a better job. That’s a dreadful noise. I wish it would stop. I always have to get home early. I wish my parents would let me stay out later.    We use past tense forms to talk about wishes for the present : I don’t like this place. I wish I lived in somewhere more interesting. These seats are very uncomfortable. I wish we were travelling first class. Everyone wishes they had more free time. John wishes he wasn’t so busy. I wish it wasn’t so cold.   We use the past perfect to talk about wishes for the past : I wish I had worked harder when I was at school. Mary wishes she had listened to what her mother told her. I wish I hadn’t spent so much money last month. ...

Exclamatory Words Emotion Exclamatory Words Joy Hurrah! Sorrow Oh! Alas! Ah! Oh dear! Amusement Ha! Ha! Reproof Fie! Fie! Surprise My goodness! Good gracious! Annoyance Bother! Bother it! Approval Bravo! Contempt of Ridicule Stuff! Bosh! Tut! Tut! Tush! To Call Someone Hi! Holloa! Doubt Hum! Hem! Humph! Anger Confound you! Disgust Ugh! Anger For goodness sake! Horror Good heavens! Praise or Applause Well done! Surprise My God! Contempt You mischief monger! Greet ...

It and There It and There English clauses always have a subject: Her father has just retired. Was a teacher → He was a teacher. I’m waiting for my friend. Is late → She is late. Look at the time! Is half past two → It’s half past two. Except for the imperative : Go to the market. Play it again, please. If we have no other subject, we use there or it . There We use there as a dummy subject with part of the verb be followed by a noun phrase : • To introduce a new topic : There is a meeting this evening. It will start at seven. There has been an accident. I hope no one is hurt. • With numbers or quantities : There was a lot of rain last night. There must have been more than fifty people in the room. • To say where something is: There used to be a playground near the temple. There are mango trees in the garden. I wonder if there will be anyone...

Means of Transport By means of transport: ❎ By a land. ❎ By a sea. ❎ By a bus. ❎ By a taxi. ❎ By a plane. ❎ By the land. ❎ By the sea. ❎ By the bus. ❎ By the taxi. ✅ By land ✅ By sea ✅ By bus ✅ By taxi ✅ By plane He goes to Pune by air. But , when the means of transport is used as a countable noun: - A/an is used. He has to buy a car. 🧠 The + means of transport: ✅ Ride on the bicycle. ✅ Sit on the bicycle. ...

The number 40 is spelled  forty  despite the fact that  four  contains a  u .   Even though it is often misspelled  fourty , the only widely accepted spelling of the number is  f orty .   Hello, everyone. We have an announcement. We are pleased/sorry to report that there is never a  u  in  forty .   That's right: the word for the number 4 is  four , but ten times that is 40, which is spelled  forty . This is true in all of the vast English language, despite rumours that users of British English like the word to resemble  colour  (they don't), and despite the frequent appearances of the misspelling out and about.   In related facts, the number 14 keeps the  u : it's written as  Fourteen But  fortieth  correlates to  forty , so it too goes without a  u .   *Ref. Dictionary.*