English Honori Garcia

Monday, November 5, 2018

Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns

Only with uncountable nouns	With uncountable and countable nouns	Only with countable nouns
How much?	How much? or How many?	How many?
a little	no/none	a few
a bit (of)	not any	a number (of)
-	some (any)	several
a great deal of	a lot of	a large number of
a large amount of	plenty of	a great number of
-	lots of	-
+ noun Note: *much* and *many* are used in negative and question forms. Examples How much money have you got? How many cigarettes have you smoked? There's not much sugar in the cupboard. There weren't many people at the concert. They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as :There were too many people at the concert - we couldn't see the band. It's a problem when there are so many people. There's not so much work to do this week. In positive statements, we use *a lot of: Examples I've got a lot of* work this week. There were a lot of people at the concert. https://www.english4today.com/englishgrammar/grammar/few_little.php

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Improve your CV/Resume

http://www.careerexperts.co.uk/job-searching/how-to-improve-your-cv

Formal English follow rules of grammar very strictly. Sentences tend to be long and complex. The vocabulary tends to be elevated, using big words and avoiding colloquial or slang vocabulary. It avoids split infinitives and prepositions at the end of sentences.

In formal English you have to be aware of the followings:

Don’t start a sentence with ‘And’, ‘Also’, ‘But’, ‘So’, ‘Or’, ‘Even so’. Instead use ‘In addition’, ‘However’, ‘Hence’, ‘Consequently’, ‘Alternatively’, ‘Nevertheless’.
Don’t start a sentence with ‘Therefore’. Instead write, for example, ‘We therefore…’.
Don’t start a sentence with ‘Then’ or ‘Now’ unless it is a command.
Don’t use ‘don‘t’, or any other shortened negative such as ‘isn’t’, ‘hasn’t’, ‘wasn’t’, etc. Use ‘does not’, ‘is not’, etc. instead.
Don’t use ‘!’ or ‘&’ or ‘/’. It is also very unusual to see ‘?’ in a paper. Don’t put questions in a paper unless you really know what you are doing.
Don’t use e.g. or i.e. or etc.
When referring to the number of countable objects, use words rather than figures when the amount is less than twenty. E.g. Don’t write “we used 3 methods” – instead write “we used three methods”.
Don’t use ‘OK‘. Use ‘acceptably’, ‘permissible’, ‘satisfactory’, etc instead.
Don’t use ‘got‘. Instead use ‘obtained’.
If you can, try to use the passive voice for some of the time when describing your results. Using ‘we’ in every sentence is a bit boring.
List things properly using ‘and‘ between the last two items. E.g. Don’t do ‘we used three methods A, B, C.‘ Instead you should write either ‘we used three methods: A, B, and C.’ or ‘we used three methods, namely, A, B, and C.’
You cannot have a paragraph that is just one sentence.