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What makes EnglishDifficult ?Funny aspects of English Language
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What makes English
difficult? It's vs. Its It'sis the contracted form of It is. This form is
used in sentences using "they" as the subject of
the sentence with the verb "to be" used as eitherthe helping verb (e.g. It's going ..., It's raining ...)or the principal verb of the sentence.
Examples: It's difficult to find work these days.
It's going to rain soon.
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Itsis the possessive pronoun form. Thisform is used to express that "it" has aspecific quality, or that something belongsto "it".
Examples:
I found its taste to be superb!
Its color is deep red, almost Burgundy
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Has gone tovs. Has been to
Has gone to vs. Has been to ... has/have gone to ... refers to
someone who has gone to a place but hasnot yet returned.
Examples: He's gone to the bank. He should be back
soon. Where has Tom gone?
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Funny aspect of Eglish There is no egg in eggplant nor ham inhamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple... English muffins were notinvented in England or French fries inFrance. Sweetmeats are candies,while sweetbreads, which aren'tsweet, are meat.
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We take English for granted. But ifwe explore its paradoxes, we findthat quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square, and a guineapig is neither from Guinea nor is it apig.
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And why is it that writers write, butfingers don't fing, grocers don't groce,and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural ofbooth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, onemoose, 2 meese? One index, two indices?Is cheese theplural of choose?
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If teachers taught, why didn'tpreachers praught? If a vegetarian
eats vegetables, what does ahumanitarian eat?
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In what language do peopleShip by truck, and send cargo by ship?Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?How can a slim chance and a fat chance bethe same, while a wise man and a wise guyare opposites? How can the weather be
hot as hell one day and cold as hellanother?
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When the stars are out, they arevisible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible. And why, when Iwind up my watch, I start it, butwhen I wind up this essay, I end it?
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Some more The soldier decided to desert hisdessert in the desert.
The bandage was wound around thewound. A box in the plural becomes is boxes.
But an Ox in the plural neverbecomes oxes. (It becomes Oxen).
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