ELISA ENGLISH's Blog 英語園地

Misuse or lack of punctuations

1.  Missing Commas after Introductory Elements:

There are arguments around whether to punctuate after introductory elements.  Traditional English writing requires you to place a comma after introductory elements.

Many of you might have a blog at Yahoo and wonder how you can move to another blog service provider.  I would like to share my experience with you.   

Initially, I was pondering whether to move my blog to Blogspot or Wordpress.  I was told that there is not a way to directly move all my blog entries from Yahoo to either one.   I will have to do it via Pixnet.  This is how it is done.

First, you have to open a pixnet blog account. 

A simple complete sentence consists of a subject and a predicate.

A fragment sentence is an incomplete sentence, which lacks a predicate, a subject, or both a subject and a predicate.  It is a section of a sentence and has no meaning when standing alone; for example, a subordinate or dependent clause.

My daughter is a chatterbox.  There is not a moment of silence with her at your side.  It is so funny watching the two opposite personalities of my kids.  My son keeps the motto “silence is gold” dear to his heart.  

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Immersion Program – A potential solution to solve the problem within Taiwan’s English educational system.

Immersion program is not a new concept.  It has been around for thousands of years as a way for us to learn native language.  Years of research have shown the power of immersion programs to aid students in attaining high levels of second language proficiency.  No other type of instruction, short of living in a second-language environment, is as successful.

I came across the link to this film on someone's profile at yahoo knowledge in Taiwan.  It is a short film but it is sad to watch.  We should always be thankful of how fortunate we are and give a helping hand to the less fortunate ones. 

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte/TVE9PSt

What do you think？跟 How do you think?
有什麼差別呢？意思上？用法上？

(1) What is usually used interrogatively as a request for specific information, about the character, occupation, etc., of a person, the origin, identity, etc., of something, the worth, usefulness, force, or importance of something.

Reading a book over 1,000 pages is not easy, let alone writing a book review about it, especially that it is a well known classic.

I have dreaded to write a book review for this book as I do not know how to gather all my thoughts together and to capture the essence of the book.  I am constantly flooded with emotions.  Anyway, instead of calling it a book review, I will just write about my thought of the book. 

Alright!  I really cannot imagine that there is such a person.  When he indicated that the translations we provided were all a bunch of jokes.  I asked him to provide us suggestions for improvements and also to provide his version of the translation.  When he finally produced one, I pointed out the similarity between his translation and mine.  He was not happy about that and started reporting all my answers to be deleted.  Oh, well.  I really couldn't care less.  Next, he employed a bunch of fake accounts, trying to manipulate the outcome of the results on the questions I answered.  I really can't do much about that either.  I do not have time to play games with this type of person.  And now, he is here criticizing the articles I wrote.  I am sorry to say that I do live in America and received education in America.  I am surrounded by Americans and have lots of highly educated American friends and colleaques.  I told them about my blog and they visit it from time to time,  proofread my articles and also provide suggestions.  To insinuate that my writing is inappropriate, my grammar is incorrect and just criticize me without any ground is just so unfounded.  Don't pretend to be a columnist, I know who you are.  I am sad for you that your life spins around me.

A secret

This is a secret only known by my husband and my kids.  Now I am letting the cat out of the bag.  I have worn a body shaper for 6 weeks and have reduced 6 pounds of weight.  Maybe to some, reducing a pound a week isn’t that big a news, but to me, I am very satisfied.  I did not purposely go on diet.  What I did was wearing a body shaper.  The purpose of that was to allow me to fit in some of my older pants and to spare me the headache of finding new ones.  The results were more than I had bargained for, a better posture and reduced weight.