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اطلاعیه
به اطلاع عموم علاقمندان زبان انگلیسی رسانیده میشود که ریاست اطلاعات و فرهنگ ولایت هرات صنوف رایگان آموزش زبان انگلیسی را برگذار مینماید .
تایم درسی فعلی ۲الی ۳بعد از ظهر.

ثبت نام محدود است عجله نمایید.

نوت:
۱.سیستم درسی برای مدت یک سال میباشد.
۲. قبل از آغاز سیستم. دوره یک ماهه ابتدایی برگذار میگردد.
۳. تدریس بصورت رایگان میباشد.
هزینه مواد درسی بدوش خود شاگرد میباشد.
برای دوستان خود این پیام را برسانید.
محل ثبت نام
ریاست اطلاعات و فرهنگ ولایت هرات
آمریت امور جوانان

اطلاعیه
به اطلاع عموم علاقمندان زبان انگلیسی رسانیده میشود که ریاست اطلاعات و فرهنگ ولایت هرات صنوف رایگان آموزش زبان انگلیسی را برگذار مینماید .
تایم درسی فعلی ۹ الی ۱۰ صبح .
آغاز صنف جدید شنبه اول دلو سال ۱۴۰۰.
ثبت نام محدود است عجله نمایید.

نوت:
۱.سیستم درسی برای مدت یک سال میباشد.
۲. قبل از آغاز سیستم. دوره یک ماهه ابتدایی برگذار میگردد.
۳. تدریس بصورت رایگان میباشد.
هزینه مواد درسی بدوش خود شاگرد میباشد.
برای دوستان خود این پیام را برسانید.
محل ثبت نام
ریاست اطلاعات و فرهنگ ولایت هرات
آمریت امور جوانان

Common grammar mistake 5

Wrong: “Please SWITCH your mobile phone to silent mode.”
Right: “Please PUT your mobile phone on silent mode.”

Wrong: “Children, please OFF the lights when you leave the room.”
Right: ” … Please SWITCH OFF the lights …”

Wrong: “I will APPRECIATE if you can keep your voice down.”
Right: “I will APPRECIATE IT if you can keep your voice down.” or “I will appreciate your keeping your voice down.”
(EXPLANATION: The word “appreciate” must be followed by an object.)

Wrong: “He is late. MUST BE he overslept or missed the bus.”
Right: “… IT MUST BE THAT he overslept or missed the bus.” or “… He MUST HAVE overslept or missed the bus.”

Wrong: “LAST TIME we lived in a kampong house.”
Right: “PREVIOUSLY, we lived in a kampong house.” or “We USED TO live in a kampong house.”

Wrong: “It may rain this afternoon. You GOT bring umbrella OR NOT?”
Right: ” … DID YOU bring an umbrella!”

Wrong: “From the way he speaks, I would consider him AS a snob.”
Right: Drop the word “AS”.

Wrong: “You BETTER apologise to him as he is really mad.”
Right: “IT WILL BE GOOD if you apologise…”

Wrong: “Sorry, I am really busy with work Right now. Can we discuss tomorrow?”
Right: ” … Can we discuss IT tomorrow?”

Wrong: “You ONLY JUST found out about the sale? Today is the last day.”
Right: “You found out ONLY NOW about the sale? …”

Wrong: “I used to love durians, but NOT SO MUCH nowadays.”
Right: ” … but LESS SO nowadays,

Wrong: ” The Japanese numbers game sudoku is very popular among the staff of my office. MYSELF, I took it up a year ago.”
COMMENT: Drop “myself”.

Wrong: “No idea.”
Right: “I don’t know.”

Azeraksh

Common grammar mistake 4

Wrong: “John, you look groovy. You aim to win at the best DRESS competition tonight, don’t you?”
Right: “… You aim to win at the best DRESSED competition tonight, don’t you?”
(EXPLANATION: If it is a “best dress” competition, John would not be eligible unless he is a cross dresser.)

Wrong: “Do you like the FRAGRANCE of the wine?”
Right: “Do you like the BOUQUET of the wine?”

Wrong: “I can see that you prefer the champagne coloured roses THAN the red ones.”
Right: “I see that you prefer the champagne coloured roses TO the red ones.”

Wrong: “I will wait for you at Ya Kun while you are at the hair dressing SALOON.”
Right: ” … hair dressing SALON.”

Wrong: “We just met. Please don’t hold my hand here. AFTER people talk.”
Right: ” … OR people may talk (gossip).”

Wrong: “Can you call me BACK soon? ”
Right: Drop the word “back” as it is redundant.

Wrong: “Mary, I have a cocktail this Friday at the office. Would you like to join me?”
COMMENT: “A cocktail” means a glass of alcoholic drink. Mary may rather go to a “cocktail party”.

Wrong: “I saw you holding Bee Hong’s hands. You are both in love, ISN’T IT?”
Right: “… You are both in love, AREN’T YOU?”

Wrong: “Can you hold my hand as I am SCARED of the dark.”
Right: “… as the dark SCARES me.” or “… as I am AFRAID of the dark.”

Azeraksh

Common grammar mistake 4

Wrong: “Please excuse me. I have to leave now to put my children TO SLEEP.”
Right: “… I have to leave now to put my children TO BED.”
(EXPLANATION: It is a criminal offence to put a person “to sleep”. In Singapore it carries the death penalty.)

Wrong: “I SEND our son Joey to school everyday.”
Right: “I DRIVE/TAKE our son Joey to school….”
(EXPLANATION: To “send” someone means that you are not accompanying that person on the journey.)

Azeraksh

Common grammar mistake 3

Wrong: “I like my eggs HALF-BOILED.”
Right: “I like my eggs SOFT-BOILED.”
(EXPLANATION: So far there is no cooking equipment for boiling only half of an egg while it is still in the shell.)

Wrong: “I go MARKETING only once a week.”
Right: “I go TO THE MARKET only once a week.”
(EXPLANATION: “Marketing” is done only by the marketing executives of a company.)

Wrong: “Why are you not DRINKING your soup?”
Right: “Why are you not HAVING your soup?”
(EXPLANATION: As soup typically contains solid ingredients, unlike water or milk or juice, it is generally not appropriate to use “drink” to describe its consumption.)

Wrong: “Have you FINISH eating?”
Right: “Have you FINISHED eating!”
(EXPLANATION: “Finish” here is used as part of the verb “have finished”.)

Wrong: “This restaurant operates on a ‘first come, first SERVE basis.”
Right: ” … ‘first come, first SERVED basis.”

Wrong: ” No fish? Prawns ALSO CAN.”
Right: “No fish? Prawns ARE FINE TOO.”

Wrong: Cake-seller to customer: “Okay, two banana muffins and one peach tart. SOME MORE?”
Right: “… ANYTHING ELSE!”

Wrong: “Sorry. I LEFT only one Sri Lanka crab. CAN TAKE local crabs instead?”
Right: “… I HAVE only one small Sri Lanka crab LEFT. CAN you TAKE local crabs instead? ”

Azeraksh