The problem is sometimes they couldn't make the points in their own questions clear enough.

Some problems are almost like a guessing game. :-)

Oh! That's new to me.

Perhaps because I've never analyzed it like that.

For example?

I think (thought?) it's always It is ....

If you want to use are, They are ... is much better.

I see your (BV's) pride. :-)

Oh, true! My bad. :-)

Could be.

As a learner, I just remember their patterns.

Ah, I see your point now.

Me too. Teaching or not, I like to chat with you.

Ah, that's good news.

I always find it strange in Thai's grammar taught in our schools about the implied "you".

Obviously, this idea must have been influenced by English grammar.

But when I say an imperative sentence, I've never thought of this "you", ever.

[do-it-now]

No [you] in there, and not in my head either.

(Actually, we usually say it as [do-now]. No [it] in there, either.)

I'm not sure if there is a language that [you] is dropped and there are different kinds of [you].

Same in Thai too!

Oh, sometimes we drop the verb too.

[now]!

If there are too many thieves iany area

so what will you say

there are too many stealing cases in this srea

/area

is it correct?

You already said two alternatives.

no

if there are too many stealing cases

Lots of robberies happened in our neighborhood last month, you know?

robbery is same as stealing?

there are too many robbery cases

Oh, just recall another idiom: breaking and entering

there are too many robberies?

Oh, how they pronounce it? "Bee and Eee"?

snailplane why don't u write a book of English grammar?

@snailplane Thanks.

Should I read grammar books?

You could.

Or should I continue with my thinking in English method?

my main aim is to speak very efficently in English

no matter I know rules or not

i want to speak in front of 1000s of people without any fear

Speaking fluently != speaking correctly

don't u think people will notice about grammatical errors you are making while speaking?

Of course, they will.

so,

But is it really a big deal?

@snailplane which book should I read?

@dam don't u think it will have bad impact ?

It depends on a lot of other things.

you are talking to your manager, then?

if you are talking to CEO of your company?

Oh, I talked to many managers with my bad English before.

None of them complained about my English.

Perhaps they're busy with something more important.

hmmm.....

Yeah. What will you prefer?

Good English helps.

But it's not the absolute requirement.

an employee who can't speak grammatically correct but he is fluent

and one who is not fluent but grammactially correct

I don't care neither of them.

I care if they can make themselves understandable.

And if they can understand others.

actually I speak too fastly

@snailplane I agree. I was surprised to read that stuttering are considered non-fluent.

I speak "this is" as this only I will merge them

I don't how can I correct it

@snailplane Even though they are native speakers?

nods

@hellodear2 Practice your pronunciation.

like I speak too fastly

i start missing to say complete words

i don't finish one word

ill then i start second word

+1

+10000

By the way, how fast is too fast?

faster than fast is too fast

yup

that's what I want.

I will make you understand. what does make mean here?

force you?

or convince you?

my sis came to me asking about a question

and I said politely that I would make her understand

haha

I know about this make :-p

hmmm.....

nice.... "help" is better word

that's what I felt after saying it to my sis :-D

I thought i had scolded her

:')

I will come in an hour or so. what does "so" mean here?

I thought he had said an hour or two

but someone told me that he had said an hour or so

out of the world!!

can a hat die?

lolx!!

haha

yes

:')

is it nice?

Me neither.

Sooo True!! Obama himself is ssaying it to you.

but you have to listen to him :'-)

hahahha

I think hellodear2 prefers practicing posting pictures than learning English.

no :(

do you think so?

:(

I'm kidding. :P

Oh, that's a good catch. Thank you.

Can you please call me?

Can you please call me up?

Can you please call up me?

what's difference between call up and call?

cool

I've never called anyone or anything up.

but is there any difference in the meaning?

Does it work in gaming context?

Oh, you bad monster, let me call my Pokemon up.

wake v.s wake up

pick v.s pick up

please, Pick up my call.

Please, wake me up at 9:00 am

oh, Thanks for correcting me

Please, I want all of you to correct me whenever I go wrong in any sentence. It will help me in a long run. :'_)

"the"

but you said that "long time" has 'a' with it

cool.

I think I must start observing people

What others say most frequently

I should use that

it will help me in the long run :'-)

yeyy!!

Yay!

And for doubts, ELL and you all are here :'-)

Yay!!

you all are here or all of you are here?

My all friends are doing this OR All of my friend are doing this.

all of my friends

I think you can use either.

All my friends

My all friends is ungrammatical?

I wouldn't say it.

and what about All of my friends?

oh

hmm...

Yeah, I got it.

Hey, Snailplane, Do you also ask questions on ELL? :-p

I'm going to read chapter 2.

Anyone want to read along?

@dam which chapter are you talking about?

yeah, sure!

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

is it a novel?

I did chapter one yesterday.

Yes, a very sad one.

Have you heard about Jeffrey Archer?

or Chetan Bhagat?

or charles Dickens?

Nope.

Oh, Charles Dickens!

@snailplane That's what I have guessed!

:-)

@dam I have read 5 novels until now.

That's good.

I get bored of reading very easily.

Read more, if you can.

Oh! BRB

I have time but I get bored of it even if story is going great. :'(

Who is more contemporary, between Dickens and Hemingway?

@hellodear2 Here is the first chapter, chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/7227?m=13492743#13492743.

@snailplane Style, usage, grammar, vocabulary, etc.

Yes.

I was surprised too. :-)

they are sort of summaries

should I read it?

Is it good?

Is it using good grammar?

um... romantic

@snailplane I downloaded that one.

action

music

read about music

The lyrics, or the history about music?

anything

anything, really anything about music

I am a singer too.

Oh! Nice!

I can't sing. :-(

I earn a lot with the help of singing only.

Wow!

Do you want to listen to my voice?

I have learnt a lot

although you will not be able to understand Hindi.

I'm currently listening to Eminem.

Okies!

You can upload your singing to YouTube, I guess.

have you heard about soundcloud.com?

yes, I have a channel too

Oh! That's great!

Not many followers, but 124 only till this date.

:-)

124 followers is great.

is ir are?

is or are?

If I say "are" it would mean they are great not your channel.

ohh

really?

"124 followers" is great. <-- It's great!

124 followers is like any single word

In formal writing, you might need to quote it.

wow

I think there is a question on something similar too.

Like, 5 kilometers is a long distance.

Can't remember its link.

yeah

I say that

5 kms is a long distance

but never thought about it too much :-)

BRB

ok!

till then I will read chapter 1. :-)

Ready for Chapter II?

Okay, I will go line by line. Feel free to interrupt. I will put his text in quotes.

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

Chapter 2

> The next year there were many victories.

> The mountain that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south and we crossed the river in August and lived in a house in Gorizia that had a fountain and many thick shady trees in a walled garden and a wistaria vine purple on the side of the house.

> Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away.

> The town was very nice and our house was very fine.

> The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way

> People lived on in it and there were hospitals and cafes and artillery up side streets and two bawdy houses, one for troops and one for officers, and with the end of the summer, the cool nights, the fighting in the mountains beyond the town, the shell-marked iron of the railway bridge, the smashed tunnel by the river where the fighting had been, the trees around the square and the long avenue of trees that led to the square;

> these with there being girls in the town, the King passing in his motor car, sometimes now seeing his face and little long necked body and gray beard like a goat's chin tuft ;

> all these with the sudden interiors of houses that had lost a wall through shelling, with plaster and rubble in their gardens and sometimes in the street, and the whole thing going well on the Carso made the fall very different form the last fall when we had been in the country.

> The war was changed too.

> The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the town was gone.

Hi

> The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up, and one day at the end of the fall when I was out where the oak forest had been I saw a cloud coming over the mountain.

@IceGirl Hello!

Is it story?

Yes, it's a novel. Continue?