Usage of English 22 (အဂၤလိပ္စာအသုံးအႏႈန္း ၂၂)

အဂၤလိပ္စာအသုံးအႏႈန္း ၂၁ မွာ little ႏွင့္ few တုိ႔ကုိ တင္ဆက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ မရွင္းမလင္းျဖစ္မွာ စုိးတဲ့အတြက္ ပုိမုိရွင္းလင္းတဲ့ Martin Hewings ရဲ ႔ Advanced Grammar in Use ထဲက စာမ်က္ႏွာ ၁၃၆ ယူနစ္ ၆၈ က ဇယားကြက္ကေလးထဲက အတုိင္း ေဖာ္ျပေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။

တစ္ခုကုိ ပုံစံႏွစ္မ်ိဳးစီထုတ္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
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A few (of) +plural countable nouns

I have got a few close friends that I meet regularly. (Positive)
ငါ့မွာ ငါပုံမွန္ေတြ႔ေနက် သူငယ္ခ်င္းနဲနဲရွိတယ္။

A few of her songs were popular and she was very well known. (Positive)
သူမရဲ ႔ သီခ်င္းေတြထဲက အနည္းငယ္ဟာ ထင္ရွားတယ္။ ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ သူမ ေက်ာ္ၾကားလာတယ္။


Few (of) +plural countable nouns

He has few close friends and often feels lonely. (Negative)
သူ႔မွာ သူငယ္ခ်င္းနဲနဲေလးဘဲ ရွိတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ မၾကာခဏ အထီးက်န္သလုိ ခံစားရတယ္။

Few of her songs were very popular and eventually she gave up her musical career. (Negative)
သူမသီခ်င္းေတြထဲက နဲနဲဆုိရုံေလး လူေတြသိတယ္။ ေနာက္ဆုံးေတာ့လဲ သူမရဲ ႔ ေတးဂီတအလုပ္ကုိ စြန္႔လြတ္လုိက္ရတယ္။


A little (of) + uncountable nouns

I have to go now, I have a little work to do. (Positive)
အခု ငါသြားရမယ္။ ငါလုပ္စရာ အလုပ္နဲနဲရွိေသးတယ္။

We had a little money left, so we went out for a meal. (Positive)
ငါတုိ႔ ပုိက္ဆံနဲနဲက်န္ေသးတယ္။ ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္အစားအစာအတြက္ အျပင္ထြက္ၾကတယ္။


Little (of) + uncountable nouns

There was little work to do, so I didn't earn much money. (Negative)
အလုပ္ရွိတယ္ဆုိရုံေလးဘဲရွိတယ္။ ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ ငါ ပုိက္ဆံအမ်ားႀကီး မရဘူး။

We decided to abandon our trip as we had little money left. (Negative)
ပုိက္ဆံ နဲနဲေလးဘဲ က်န္ေတာ့တဲ့အတြက္ ခရီးစဥ္ကုိ စြန္႔လြတ္ဖုိ႔ ငါတုိ႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။