Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Usage of English 25 (အဂၤလိပ္စာအသုံးအႏႈန္း ၂၅)

ဒါေလးေတြလဲ သိထားသင့္တယ္ေနာ္။
ျမင္ေနက်ေပမဲ့ တကယ္သုံးၾကည့္ရင္ ေယာင္ေတာင္ေတာင္ရယ္။

စူးစုိက္လုိက္ၾကဦးစုိ႔။
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Any of
Each of
Either of + plural noun+ plural verb or singular verb (Singular ကုိဦးစားေပး)
Niether of
None of


I don't think any of them knows (or know) whrere the money is hidden.

သူတုိ႔ထဲက ဘယ္သူမွ ပုိက္ဆံ၀ွက္ထားတဲ့ေနရာကုိ သိမယ္မထင္ပါဘူး။


Each of the companies supports (or support) a local charity.

ကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုစီ ေဒသဆုိင္ရာ လူမႈကူညီေရး အသင္းကုိ ေထာက္ပံ့တယ္။


Either of you has (or have) to go to the US .

မင္းတုိ႔ထဲက တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ ယူအက္စ္ေအကုိ သြားရမယ္။


Neither of the French athletes has (or have) won this year.

ျပင္သစ္အားကစားသမားေတြထဲက တစ္ေယာက္မွ ဒီႏွစ္ အႏုိင္မရဘူး။


None of my children has (or have) blonde hair.

ငါ့ကေလးေတြထဲက ဘယ္သူမွ ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္ဆံပင္မရွိဘူး။

...........................................




The majority of
A majority of
A number of +plural noun + plural verb
A lot of
Plenty of
All (of)
Some (of)


The majority of the employees have university degrees.
အလုပ္သမားအမ်ားစုဟာ တကၠသုိလ္ဘြဲ႔ရၿပီးျဖစ္တယ္။

A large majority of people approve of the death sentence.
လူအမ်ားစုက ေသဒဏ္စနစ္ကုိ သေဘာတူၾကတယ္။

A number of refugees have been turned back at the border.
ဒုကၡသည္အမ်ားစုကုိ နယ္စပ္က ျပန္ပုိ႔ၿပီးၿပီ။

A lot of people are coming to the meeting.
လူအျမားအျပား အစည္းအေ၀းကုိ လာၾကတယ္။

Plenty of eggs are in the cupboard.
ၾကက္ဥအမ်ားႀကီး ေၾကာင္အိမ္ထဲမွာ ရွိတယ္။

All animals have to eat in order to live.
အသက္ရွင္ဖုိ႔ တိရစၦာန္အားလုံး အစာစားၾကတယ္။

Some of you here have already met Imran.
ဒီမွာရွိတဲ့ မင္းတုိ႔ထဲက တစ္ခ်ိဳ ႔ အင္ရန္ကုိ ေတြ႔ၿပီးၿပီ။
..........................


The number of + singular verb

The number of books in the library has risen to over five million.
စာၾကည့္တုိက္ထဲက စာအုပ္အေရအတြက္ဟာ ငါးသန္းေက်ာ္အထိ တုိးျမွင့္လာတယ္။




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