"First,don't look upon the study of grammar as all or nearly all that you have to do in learning to write correctly.Important as it is,grammar is not everything. Secondly,don't indulge in much reasoning from the definitions;that would be sheer waste of time and energy. Thirdly,don't be a slave to gra"
"When you read a story in English,do you read it for the story or for the English ?This is a question that is not so foolish as it may seem.For I find that many students of English pay far more attention to the story than to the English.They read and enjoy and for a long time afterwards remember the "
"First,don't try to find out how or why a particular idiom has come into existence.(其实我很怀疑真的会有人这样做么?难道是个处女座……) Secondly,don't try to alter any idiom. Thirdly,don't invent any idiom by analogy. Fourthly,don't neglect any expression because you do not think it has its Han equivalent."
"There appear to be many Chinese students who have read a number of books on grammar and composition and done many exercises in correcting and improving sentences and yet cannot write even tolerable English."
"Of course you have occasion to speak and write theHan language every day.Just ask yourself the question"How shall I sayit in English?",and you will find something for practice in Englishcomposition.You will find far more material than you have time forevery day."
"Read any page in anybook carefully,and you will perhaps find some expressions that willhelp you to say things. Many of such expressions may seem to you to betoo simple to deserve much attention,but you cannot invent them,nor can you use them unless you have noted them. (There appear to be manyChines"
"As you may also have gathered from the above,you ought to readvery carefully.Not only very carefully but also aloud,and that againand again till you know the passage by heart and can recite it as if itwere your own.Positively this will teach you many useful words andphrases;negatively it will help y"
"1.Oford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English,ThirdEdition;Oxford University Press 2.Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English,Longman GroupLimited"