From Twitter
A: Do ya sacrifice for #publicsafety due to #CoronaVirus?
B: How?
A: Many don’t don masks as the @WHO says we don’t need to unless we’re health workers–but I _ that comfort; I wear one to protect others.
B: I wear one for myself! People breathe* nearby!
_____________
Don means “put on.”
_____________
Choices
stop
gave up
*#Osterholm
Answer And Explanation:
The answer is ‘gave up,’ which means sacrifice.
We sacrifice activities, behaviors and things we benefit from or like to achieve a goal, like in progress or in loving others.
Category: 英文法
COVID19 is Inhaled
A: You can _ the #CoronaVirus by breathing.
B: Oh?
A: Yes– ① a bus, train, boat, plane; ② a room, an office, an elevator–any closed space and with air-con–near infected folks–you can ③ it.
B: Not only by sneeze, cough?
A: Right.
_______
in
on
catch
________________
Answers And Explanations
① on, because we get on large vehicles.
② in, because we get in small vehicles.
③ catch, because we catch a virus, a cold, a communicable disease.
________________________________________
On The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, in this episode, Dr. Osterholm explains that you can catch the Corona Virus from people in the same space–near you– just breathing.
Reporter & Person
From Twitter:
Reporter: Do you have (1.)_ you (2.)_ to protect (3.)_ the Corona Virus?
Person: Well, I take a bath each week, whether I need it or not; if someone sneezes, I go home.
Reporter: Excuse- …1 bath a week?
Person: And I carry knives, forks, spoons, a cup.
deed
against
action
do
take
protection
precautions
from
Answers And Explanations:
Answers 1 & 2 are: precautions and take, because you need a noun after ‘have’, and take is the verb that goes with it… or, deed and do, because, again, we need a noun after have and do is the verb that goes with it.
Answer 3 is against or from. Come to class to learn why from is not the best answer here without a pronoun, but is passable.
Clarke’s Coffee
From Twitter
Jo: How __ that girl eat out so often? She works at Clarke’s Coffee.
Bo: Is that the place that has 2001 flavors?
Jo: Yeah!
Bo: They don’t make any money at Clarke’s. And She wears fancy clothes too. She posts on Instagram.
Answer And Explanation:
The answer is ‘can,’ because ‘could’ suggests unreality and/or the future, but this conversation refers entirely to the present about present tense events.
We Should Stop Idling
From Twitter
We should stop idling as
a. Earth is in a rapid, soon unstoppable environmental evolution.
b. Earth is in a rapid, soon unstoppable environmental devolution.
c. Air pollution is causes asthma attacks in people and lung cancer is the #1 killer in Japan.
Choose–
1. a & c
2. b & c
Answer And Explanation
The answer is 2., b & c, because devolution is the opposite of evolution. Evolution is incremental development that improves life; devolution is development that deteriorates it (breaks it down, degenerates or kills it). The global environment, as a result of rapid warming, is killing off species and may kill us off if we do not act fast and comprehensively to save our biosphere.
I Don’t Care
From Twitter:
Jo: Trump passed a new law.
Bo: _. What is it, no Korean or Chinese travel?
Jo: I thought you didn’t care.
Bo: I don’t, but was I right?
Jo: No. He banned negative reporters from the White House.
Bo: Old news.
Choose the best answer:
I couldn’t care.
I don’t know.
Who cares?
Answer
The answer is Who cares, because this expression means no one cares, certainly I don’t care, so who does (care)?
‘I don’t know‘ doesn’t create any sense, if you look at the statement from Jo. It would not be the correct response.
I couldn’t is grammatically correct, but awkward without ‘less,’ as the common expression is ‘I couldn’t care less.’
Masks
It’s not just about you; it’s about the comfort of others.
From Twitter:
1. Bo: Aren’t ya gonna _ a mask?
2. Jo: When I _ one of those, I’m uncomfortable.
Bo: We all are, but it’s necessary.
Jo: They don’t work!
Bo: They do–against sneezes, coughs–and, it’s not just about you; it’s about the comfort of others.
Pick The Best Answers:
wear
put on
use
Answers & Explanation:
1. ‘wear,’ because we wear clothing after we put it on.
2. ‘put on,’ because first we put on clothes, then we wear them all day–or until we take them off.
‘Use‘ works in both cases, but the test is to pick the best answers.
He Forgot
They fall off the roof.
From Twitter:
①_ man want_ to buy gift_ for his worker_.
④ Ｈe go__ to Radiohub to get phone-case_.
③___ ___ ___ office he put__ ___ case_ on __ roof of ___ car as he open_ ___ door.
④ On ___ way __ __ office they fall off ___ top of ___ car.
Use More Than Once:
to
es
his
the
way
heading
on
a
s
Answers And Explanation:
① [A] man want[s] to buy gift[s] for his worker[s].
② He go[es] to Radiohub to get phone-case[s].
③ [Heading] [to] [the] office he put[s] [the] case[s] on [the] roof of [his] car as he open[s] [the] door.
④ On [the] way [to] [the] office they fall off [the] top of [the] car.
① A man is a new man in the story; the man (or “he”) is one already spoken about and known to the listener(s).
A man wants in general situations. The ‘s‘ is there to show we are talking about 1 man in the present tense.
We buy gifts or “a gift“ for persons or a person. He is buying for workers, so buys more than 1.
② A man sometimes, usually, always or never goes somewhere. We use this tense for telling stories. The man buys phone cases because he has many employees.
③ Heading to a place means starting to go to that place. ‘To’ is a pre-position. It comes “pre” or before the position. As with all prepositions, it is there to indicate the relationship between the subject and the object (the destination). Our man heads to the office, because it is his office; it is known. He puts the cases on the roof of his car. The cases, because they are known cases. The roof of the car, because the car has one roof, and it’s his car because he owns it. He opens the door; it’s the door because the car has one door that the man is opening.
④ On the way to the office means while going to the office. This clause (A group of words containing a subject and verb phrase is “a clause”) shows when they (the cases) fall off the top of the car. It’s the top, because the car has only one top.
More Later…
Politics
What do you think?
From Twitter:
Toshi: _ of politics?
Tom: You should pay attention to it.
Toshi: We think it’s a waste of time.
Tom: That’s why it wastes more than your time.
Toshi: What do ya mean?
Tom: You don’t care, so it wastes your money, taxes, health and time.
Do you like
What do you think
Think
Answer And Explanation
A. The answer is what do you think; but some people (even one of my favorite living philosophers… not mentioning names… [his initials are Sam Harris] …) say “how do you think?,” but this means something different, such as what is the mechanism of your thought process; that is totally different and inappropriate for this situation (and others) wherein we want to know what thoughts someone has on a subject in the contents of their ideas–not how they arrive at them (chemically or procedural-ly).
B. “Think of politics?” kind of works in casual, abbreviated, dialectic speech, but these questions that I make here and on Twitter are about proper, Standard English.
C. “Do you like of politics?” makes no sense.
Fashion?
From Twitter:
A. (1.)_ your style?
B. Style? Look!
A. That?
B. Do ya (2.) _ western men? If we’re not rappers, gangsters or
A. Wha?
B. Gay (sorry; nothing’s wrong with (3.) _)–we don’t _ up–or for our girlfriends.
A. Why?
B. It’s silly, a waste, girly–not (4.) _.
*confident
*dress
*LGBT
*confidence
*get
*That’s (Added after the tweet was posted–in a comment)
*What’s (Added after the tweet was posted–in a comment)
Answers And Explanation:
1. What’s
2. get (meaning understand)
3. LGBT (meaning Lesbian, Gary, Bi-sexual, Transgender)
4. confident (Here, confidence would work, but confident is better, because we are using adjectives in the other cases in the sentence–describing the dressers.)
Note: No one should get the idea from this post that the male speaker (B.) is anti-gay or homophobic; although there is a trend in the West and on social media for the neo-liberal-left to criticize, vilify, misrepresent and “cancel” people who make nuanced comments, essays, posts on social media or jokes about or related to vulnerable or sensitive groups (such as religions, cults, age groups, ethnicities, sexual persuasions and nationalities), the truth is that this onslaught on free speech has nothing to do with fairness and is a kind of repression of opinions more than a protection of groups. This trend is a huge cultural, social and political phenomenon detested and resisted by many courageous scientists, philosophers, politicians, pundits and people of all walks of life and is recognized as political correctness, which opponents of it say is ruining communication, language, freedom, institutions and person’s lives. Some even feel it is because of this disingenuous and repressive behavior that a backlash to it played a significant part in achieving the election of Donald Trump. So, think twice before blaming someone before you understand what he or she means.