Bits and Pieces of English Grammar & Usage: Tenses

redred wrote:
擦鞋教材，几乎都是Chinglish式，才不用他的呢。

redred wrote:

他著的《基础英语一》和《基础英语二》，厚厚的一本书，全部是在文革气候下写的颂歌体裁，不是擦鞋英语是什么。想google和baidu一些书里的文章，这两个搜索引擎也不买他的帐，一篇也搜不到．以前有这些书，发现没有保存价值，早卖给收购站，不然也可打一些文章上来看看．

David Shen wrote:




接下去,全民学英语,总应该有人已经接到了"九五攻关"之类的项目了吧?不知选教材内容时这些先生们会选些什么. 希望他们今天选定的教材能比许国璋教材用的时间更长...要不然许国璋先生真的要动气了!"怎么拿来擦鞋都不用我的?"到时也许有好心人会告诉他:"他们用攻关项目的资金印刷出来的油墨比你的要新,要亮! Got it?" "不对! 没主语!"

David Shen wrote:

许国璋教材代表了一代人.好象六十年代后全国院大专院校外语系用的基本教材都是许国璋,只此一家,别无分店.八十年代初才引进新概念英语,美国的教材又在新概念之后.我毕业后曾教过几年书,教科书就是"新概念",所以有此印象.记得当时有学生还自己主动买了许国璋教材来补充"新概念英语"的不足,因为前者用中文来注释英语语法.对初学者很顶用的.

Last Hermit wrote:

The following discussion is just an attempt to give you some fresh views on the English grammar. Hopefully, and ultimately, it will resolve some of your grammatical issues in relation to the English tenses. But please be advised that even grammar gurus are not able to offer a cure-all for all issues. So you wouldn't expect me to resolve all of yours. That means some of them, as Bus Uncle puts it, will remain unresolved.

Last Hermit wrote:

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1a)Since when do you read newspapers? Ö
1b)Since when did you read newspapers? Ö
1c)We live near Toronto since 1949. ´
　
2a)Uncle Yeti tells me that he is coming to Guangdong soon. Ö
2b)Uncle Yeti told me that he was coming to Guangdong soon. Ö
2c)Uncle Yeti has told me that he is coming to Guangdong soon. Ö
2d)I hear that Uncle Yeti has gone to Guangdong. Ö
　
3a)In The Brothers Karmazov, Dostoevsky draws his characters from sources deep in the Russian soil. Ö
3b)In The Brothers Karmazov, Dostoevsky drew his characters from sources deep in the Russian soil. Ö
　
4a)"To us finalists, LH and me, the last section is most exciting as well as most difficult," said LD. Ö
4b)"To us finalists, LH and me, the last section was most exciting as well as most difficult," said LD. Ö
4c)The author says that Apelles had a good personal reason for wanting to do a picture about slander, because he'd once been falsely accused himself, and almost executed.  A rival artist called Antiphilus was jealous of him, and denounced him to the king.  He told the king that Apelles had been seen whispering in the ear of one of the provincial governors and inciting him to revolt. (Fiction) Ö
4d)I stop the car in the lake that collects in the dip by the wood where we found the dead tramp.(Fiction) Ö
4e)The clock on the tower of St Michael-in-the-Moor chimed nine as he came onto the road.  The milkman's van was on the green;  Mrs Southworth from the Hall was at the pillar box, posting a letter.  He walked on away from the green and the houses up the bit of the Jackley road from which Tace Way turned off. (Fiction) Ö
　
5a)MEAT PRICES RISE AGAIN (Headline) Ö
5b)MEAT PRICES ROSE AGAIN (Headline) ´ (in my book)
5c)MEAT PRICES HAVE ROSEN AGAIN (Headline) seldom used though could be, in my book, seen as correct.
5d)WOMAN CLAIMS DRUG CAUSED CANCER, SUES (Headline) Ö
5e)WOMAN CLAIMS DRUG CAUSES CANCER, SUES (Headline) ´

chance wrote:
谈钱的多是这里的老将，他们已工作多年，有经验和实力，谈谈钱是很自然的

Last Hermit wrote:
“擦鞋”是粤语，即“拍马屁”。

redred wrote:
...相较之下，新概念英语生动和风趣。迄令，它还是学子们背诵的上好素材，传说熟读之下能应付各类型的英语考试，难怪数十年经久不衰......

David Shen wrote:



我用过的教材有两种, New Concept English 和 English for Today. 后者如今只记得第一课BART了,因为它就在旧金山,是(旧金山地铁和郊外地面铁路)湾区捷运系统的简称.(San Francisco) Bay Area Rapid Transit. 而新概念中只记得"A Puma at Large"这一课了, 我有时感到自己就象那头at large 的 Puma.



[Edited at 2006-06-20 06:24]