Thursday, October 04, 2012

Notes on Ibrahim's post

Ibrahim,

Thank you for posting your summary and comments. I've written about them below.

Italian scintists have found that the chemical in the brain which makes us romantic disappears over a year . They say this explains why the happy , wonderful and confident feelings we experience at the start of a relathionship do not last forever.

-Yes, this gives the main idea of the article. Two words are incorrectly spelled, "scientists and "relationship." 



But in Saudi Arabia you cant have girl friend because the religon say that . If you want girl friend you most married .



-"Can't" is a "CONTRACTION" (short written form) of "CANNOT." It needs an APOSTROPHE ('), so "cant" is incorrect.

"Girlfriend" (one word) needs an "INDEFINITE ARTICLE" ("a"). The correct form is "you can't have a girlfriend").

Remember: In the present tense there's an "s" after the VERB if the SUBJECT is 3rd person singular. 

In English there's

1st person singular= "I"
 1st person plural= "We"
2nd person singular= "You"
2nd person plural= "They"
3rd person singular= "He, "She" or "It"
3rd person plural= "They"

In this sentence, "religion" is  3rd person singular.

"The religion says that" is correct.

"must" is the correct spelling (not "most")

After "must" (or "can," "do," "should," "will," et cetera, the VERB is BASE FORM (the BASE FORM is the dictionary form, with no "ed," "ing" et cetera.

so "must marry" (not "must married") is correct. 

"If" is a conjunction. If you begin a SENTENCE with a CONJUNCTION, you need a COMMA (,) at the end of the first CLAUSE.

The form is this: CONJUNCTION + CLAUSE+ COMMA+ CLAUSE

(a clause is a SUBJECT + VERB)

This is correct: "If you want a girlfriend, you must marry."


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