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Phone number

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09974832330

Intensifiers:

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To make adjectives stronger, we use intensifiers.

Adjective များကို ပို၍ အားကောင်းအောင်လုပ်ဖို့ intensifier များကို သုံးပါတယ်။

Eg. Very
Really
Extremely
Very interesting story.
Everyone was really excited.

Other intensifiers are

အခြား intensifier များမှာ

Amazingly
Exceptionally
Incredibly
Remarkably
Particularly
Unusually

Adjectives which can be used only in front of nouns

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Noun အေ႐ွ႕မွာပဲ သံုးလို႔ရေသာ adjectives မ်ာ

ေခါင္းစဥ္ ၾကည့္ၿပီး ဟင္..adjective ပါဆို noun အေ႐ွ႕မွာ မသံုးလို႔ ဘယ္နား သြားသံုးရမလဲလို႔ ေစာဒက မတက္ၾကပါနဲ႔အံုး :-P :-P :-P

Afraid တို႔ alive တို႔လို link verb နဲ႔ပဲ တြဲၿပီး noun နဲ႔ တြဲမရတဲ့ adjective ေတြ ရိွေနလို႔ပါ။

I am alive လို႔ပဲ ေရးလို႔ရပါတယ္။ alive man လို႔ ေရးမရပါ။

Noun အေ႐ွ႕မွာပဲ သံုးသင့္တဲ့ adjectives ေတြကေတာ့
north, south, east, west
northetn, southern, eastern, western
countless, occational
lone
eventful
indoor, outdoor

Link verbs + ed adjectives

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Some ed adjectives are normally used only after a link verb:
တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ ed adjectives ေတြက link verbs ေနာက္မွာပဲ သံုးလို႔ရပါတယ္။

Annoyed, finished, bored, pleased, thrilled

Examples:
Our teacher was ill. (True)
We had an ill teacher. (False)

The police man is very annoyed. (True)
He is an annoyed police man. (False)

Adjectives used only after a link verb

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Some adjectives are used only after a link verb.
Afraid
Alive
Alone
Asleep
Content
Glad
ill
Ready
Sorry
Sure
Unable
Well
For example, She is afraid.
She felt sorry.

What is a link verb?
A link verb is one which shows relationship between the subject of the sentence and a noun or adjective.

Common link verbs are
Be (am, is, are, was, were)
Become
Appear
Feel
Look
Remain
Seem
Sound
Get
Go
Grow
Taste
Smell

Orders of adjectives

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Adjectives usually come in this order.
1 general opinion
2 specific opinion
3 size
4 shape
5 age
6 color
7 nationality
8 material

Opinion adjective မွာ general opinion နဲ႔ specific opinion ဆို ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရိွပါတယ္။

General opinion adjectives can be used to describe almost any noun.
Noun တိုင္းလိုလိုနဲ႔ တြဲလို႔ရပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ nice man ဆိုလည္းရတယ္ nice food, nice book ဆိုလည္း ရတာပဲ။
Good
Bad
Lovely
Strange
Beautiful
Nice
Brilliant
Excellent
Awful
Important
Wonderful
Nasty

Specific opinion adjectives are used to described particular kinds of noun. သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ noun နဲ႔ပဲ တြဲလို႔ ရတာပါ။
ဥပမာ tasty food ပဲရိွတယ္ tasty color လို႔ မရိွပါ။

Food- tasty, delicious
Furniture, building- comfortable, uncomfortable
People, animal- clever, intelligent, friendly

General ကို specific ရဲ႕ ေ႐ွ႕မွာ ထားပါတယ္
E.g. nice tasty food

-ing and -ed adjectives

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-ing adjectives
Common -ing adjectives are
Amusing
Shocking
Surprising
Frightening
Interesting
Disappointing
Exciting
Tiring
Worrying
Boring
Terrifying
Annoying

-ed adjectives
Common -ed adjectives are
Annoyed
Bored
Frightened
Worried
Tired
Closed
Excited
Delighted
Disappionted

ဗမာလို လြယ္ေအာင္ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ -ing adjective ေတြကို ခံစားခ်က္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစေသာ လူ အရာဝတၳဳ တို႔နဲ႔ တြဲသံုးပါတယ္။ -စရာေကာင္းေသာ လို႔ ဆိုႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ boring ၿငီးေႁငြ႔စရာေကာင္းေသာ။
The film is boring. ႐ုပ္႐ွင္က ၿငီးေငြ႔စရာ ေကာင္းတယ္။
႐ုပ္႐ွင္ = ၿငီးေငြ႔ျခင္းကို ျဖစ္ေစေသာ အရာဝတၳဳ

-ed adjective ေတြကို ခံစားတဲ့လူေတြနဲ႔ တြဲသုံုးတယ္။ ဥပမာ bored ၿငီးေငြ႔ေသာ
I am bored. ငါ ၿငီးေငြ႔တယ္။
I = ၿငီးေငြ႔မႈကို ခံစားေသာလူ

The film is boring. So I am bored.
:-) :-) :-)

Subject verb agreement

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Subject verb agreement ဆိုတာ ဘာမွ အထူးအဆန္း မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ Subject ေနာက္မွာ သင့္ေလ်ာ္တဲ့ verb လိုက္တာပါ။ ဥပမာ ျမန္မာစကားမွာလည္း
ငါ လုပ္လိုက္တယ္။ ငါတို႔ လုပ္လိုက္ၾကတယ္။ အမ်ားဆိုရင္ ၾက ဆိုတဲ့ တစ္လံုးကေလး ပိုထည့္ရတာမ်ိဳးပါ။ အမွန္ေတာ့ subject verb agreement ကို elementry level ကတည္းက သင္ဖူးခဲ့ၾကမွာပါ။ ေမ့ေနရင္ ျပန္ေႏႊးဖို႔

I go
You go
We go
Mike and Micky go
He goes
She goes
It goes
Micky goes
(Present simple မွာ subject အနည္းဆိုရင္ verb မွာ s သို႔မဟုတ္ es ထည့္ရပါတယ္)

Past simple ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အကုန္ အတူတူပါပဲ
I/we/you/they/he/she/it/Mike and Micky/Mike + went
I/we/you/they/he/she/it/Mike and Micky/ Mike + had

Verb to be ေတြ အတြက္
I am
You/We/They/Mike and Micky + are
He/She/it/Mike + is

I was
You/We/They/Mike and Micky + were
He/She/it/Mike + was

Has နဲ႔ Have နဲ႔ အတြက္
I have
You/we/they/Mike and Micky + have
He/she/it/Mike + has

ေမ့ေနမွာစိုးလို႔ပါ။ :-)

Verbs followed by verbs

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When a verb is followed by another verb, the second verb may be

an infinitive
Eg. I want to go.

ing form
Eg. I enjoy swimming.

It depends on the first verbs.

Style 2 . it is no use/there is no use (doing something)

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People tried to stop her, but it was no use. လူေတြက သူမကိုတားဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဆင္မေျပပါဘူး (မေအာင္ျမင္ပါဘူး)

It is no use/there is no use ရဲ႕ ေနာက္မွာ V ing လိုက္ပါတယ္။ လုပ္တဲ့ဟာက အက်ိဳးမရွိ အသံုး မဝင္ဘူးလို႔ ဆိုလိုပါတယ္။

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There is no use asking me about it, because I don't know anything. ငါ့ကို အဲဒါအေၾကာင္း ေမးတာ (ေမးတဲ့သူအတြက္) ဘာမွ အက်ိဳးမရွိဘူး။ ငါမွ ဘာမွ မသိတာ။

Style 1 (it is no good doing something)

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💬It is no good + ving

💬It is no good trying to persuade me. You won't success. ငါ့ကို စည္း႐ုံး ဆြဲေဆာင္ေနတာ အက်ိဳးမရိွဘူး။ မင္း ေအာင္ျမင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။

💬It is no good ရဲ႕ေနာက္မွာ v ing လိုက္ပါတယ္။
အဲဒီ လုပ္ေနတဲ့ အလုပ္ အက်ိဳးမရွိဘူး မေကာင္းဘူး ေအာင္ျမင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး ဆိုလိုတာပါ။

💬It is no good worrying about situations you can't control. ကိုယ္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္လို႔မရတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ စိတ္ပူေနလည္း အလကားပဲ။

Agree + prepositions

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With
I agree with you on this issue.

About/on
My father and I don't agree about/on very much.

+that
I agree that he should be invited.

+question word
Experts were unable to agree whether the drug is safe or not.

+to infinitive
The bank has agreed to lend me £9000.

Agree to something (phrasal verb) = to agree something
eg. agree to the terms of the peace treaty

Agree with something (phrasal verb) = to think something is morally acceptable
eg. I don't agree with hunting.

Agree to somebody (phrasal verb) = if a situation or new conditions agree with you, they make you feel healty and happy
eg. You look well - the mountain air must agree with you.

Complaining, protesting and remonstrating

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Some verbs relating to complaining, protesting and remonstrating
(Source: eng voc in use Adv)

😡Complain about

😡Protest about

😡Object to

😡Remonstrate against

😡find fault with somebody/something

😡Grumble about

😡Gripe about

😡Grouse about

😡Whinge about

Linking verbs

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တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြေနာက္က noun သို႔မဟုတ္ adjective လိုက္ပါတယ္

He was a good teacher.
N + V + N

He was happy.
N + V + Adj

He became angery.
N + V + Adj

These verbs are link verbs. Common link verbs are
Be
Become
Appear
Feel
Look
Remain
Seem
Sound

Some common link verbs followed by adjective.
Get
Go
Grow
Taste
Smell

Adjectives + prepositions At to in with for

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At
Good at ေတာ္
She is very good at Geography.

Bad at ညံ့
She is bad at History.

Better at ပိုေတာ္
She is much better at tennis than me.

Hopeless at ေမ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မဲ့
I am hopeless at sport.

To
Married to လက္ထပ္
She is married to a doctor.

Engaged to ေစ့စပ္
She is engaged to a doctor.

Similar to တူ
Paul is similar to his brother.

different from ျခားနား
Emily is different from her sister.

In
Interested in စိတ္ဝင္စား
I am interested in sport.

On
Keen on
Dependent on (independent of)

With
Crowded with

For
Famous for
Responsible for

Adjectives + to infinitives DEFGHL

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Delighted
We would be delighted to come to dinner on Friday.

Disappointed
He was disappointed to find they had already gone.

Determined
I am determined to get this piece of work finished today.

Eager
She sounded very eager to meet you.

Fortunate
You are very fortunate to have found such a lovely house.

Glad
I am glad to know the parcel arrived safely.

Happy
You will be happy to know that James is winning the first prize.

Lucky
They are lucky to have such a nice office to work in.

Likely
Do remind me because I am likely to forget.

Adjectives + to infinitives ABC (adjectives and participial adjectives followed by infinitives)

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amazed
Mr Graham was amazed to find ancient gold coins inside the pot.

Afraid
Don't be afraid to say what you think.

Anxious
I am anxious to get home to open my present.

Ashamed
He was ashamed to admit to his mistake.

Astonished
I was astonished to see Miriam there.

Careful
Be careful to look both ways when you cross the road.

Certain
The population explosion is certain to cause widespread famine.

Content
They are content to socialize with a very small circle of people.

Modal (could)

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😎😎can ၏ past tense အျဖစ္ သံုးနိုင္သည္။
အထူးသျဖင့္
see, hear, smell, taste, feel, remember, understand စသည္တို့ႏွင့္ တြဲသံုးသည္။

I could smell the gas as soon as I entered the house.
I couldn't hear very well from the back of the theatre.

to say that somebody had the general ability to do something
စြမ္းရည္ တစ္ခုခုရိွ
My grandfather could speak five languages.

to say that somebody had the permission to do something
ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ရ
We were totally free. We could do what we wanted.

😎😎to talk about possible action now or in the future (especially to make suggestions)
What shall we do tomorrow?
မနက္ျဖန္ခါ ဘာလုပ္ၾကမလဲ
We could go to the cinema.
ရုပ္ရွင္သြားၾကမယ္ေလ (ရုုပ္ရွင္သြားလို့ရတယ္)
(Not used as the past of can)

😎😎for the actions which are not realistic
I am so tired, I could sleep for a week. ငါ အရမ္းပင္ပန္းေနတယ္။ တစ္ပတ္ေလာက္ေတာင္ မထပဲ အိပ္ပစ္လိုက္နိုင္တယ္။ (တကယ္ေတာ့ ဘယ္သူမွ တစ္ပတ္ေလာက္ ဆက္တိုက္မအိပ္နိုင္။ not realistic ဒါေၾကာင့္ can မသံုး could သံုး)
I am so hungry. I could eat you up.

😎😎to say that something is possible now or in the future. The meaning is similar to may or might.
ျဖစ္နိုင္တာကို ေျပာဖို့သံုး. may/might တို့ သံုးသလိုမ်ိဳး
The story could be true. But I don't believe.

😎😎past tense of could = could have done
I was so hungry. I could have eaten you up.

something could have happened = it was possible to happen but did not happen
ျဖစ္နိုင္ခဲ့တယ္ မျဖစ္ခဲ့
Diana was lucky. She could have died in her car crash. But luckily she survived.

😎😎for request
Could you wait a moment, please?
ခနေစာင့္လို့ရမလား (not the past of can)

Do you think you could…….= request
Do you think you could lend me your car?

😎😎Asking for things ေတာင္း
(at the coffee bar) Could I have a cup of coffee, please?
ေကာ္ဖီတစ္ခြက္ေပးပါ

😎😎Asking to do things ေမး
Could I use your car?
မင္းကားကို သံုးလို့ရမလား

Modal (can)

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😃something is possible or allowed တစ္ခုခု ျဖစ္နိုင္တယ္၊ တစ္ခုခုကို ခြင့္ျပဳတယ္
I haven't got a car. ငါ့မွာ ကားမရိွဘူး။ You can use my car. ငါ့ကားကို သံုးလို့ရတယ္ေနာ္။

😃somebody has the ability to do something တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္မွာ စြမ္းရည္ တစ္ခုခုရိွတယ္
Can you speak any foreign language? နိုင္ငံျခားဘာသာတစ္ခုခု ေျပာတတ္သလား။
No, I can't. မေျပာတတ္ဘူး။

😃to ask people to do things (request) လုပ္ေပးနိုင္သလား ေမးတဲ့အခါ request လုပ္တဲ့အခါမွာ
Can you wait a moment, please? ခနေစာင့္နိုင္လား။

😃to ask for something ပစၥည္းတစ္ခုခု ေတာင္းတဲ့အခါ (ဥပမာ ေစ်းဝယ္တဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳး)
(in a shop) Can I have these postcards, please? How much? ဒီ ပို့စ္ကဒ္ေတြ လိုခ်င္လို႔၊ ဘယ္ေလာက္လဲ။
(during a meal) Can I have the salt, please? ဆားနည္းနည္းေလာက္ ရမလား။

😃Can I…..? တစ္ခုခု လုပ္ေပးခ်င္တဲ့အခါ
Can I get you a glass of water? ေရတစ္ခြက္ေလာက္ ခပ္ေပးရမလား
Can I help you? က်ေနာ္ ကူညီရမလား၊

Adjective + preposition (sorry) E

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😞Sorry about a situation or something that happened. အေျခအေန တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပ်က္သြားေသာ မေကာင္းတာတစ္ခုအတြက္ ဝမ္းနည္းေပး
I'm sorry about Julie losing her job.

😞Sorry for/about something you did.
ကိုယ္လုပ္မိတာ အတြက္ စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္မိ
I'm sorry for shouting at you yesterday.

😞Feel sorry for somebody who is in bad situation.
အေျခအေန မေကာင္းတဲ့သူအတြက္ ဝမ္းနည္း
I feel sorry for Matt. He's had a lot of bad luck.

😞[+ (that )]
I'm sorry (that) you had such a difficult journey.

😞[+ to infinitive]
We were both sorry to hear you've been ill again.

😞feel sorry for yourself
ကိုယ့္ကို မေကာင္းတာေတြ ျဖစ္လို႔ ဝမ္းနည္း
He sounded very sorry for himself on the telephone.

😞I'm sorry to say
ေျပာရမွာ အားနားပါတယ္။ ေျပာရမွာ စိတ္မေကာင္းပါဘူး။
I'm sorry to say that the project's funding has been cancelled.
Most people who start the course do, I'm sorry to say, give up within the first two weeks.
sorry

😞ေတာင္းပန္ေသာ စကား
Oh, I'm sorry - I didn't see you there.
Tom, I'm so sorry about last night - it was all my fault.
I've said I'm sorry.

😞I'm sorry
သေဘာမတူ၊ ျငင္းဆိုေသာအခါ ယဥ္ယဥ္ေက်းေက်း ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေျပာဆိုေသာစကား
I'm sorry but I think you've made a mistake.
I'm sorry, I can't agree.

Adjective + preposition (sorry)

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😞Sorry about a situation or something that happened.
I'm sorry about Julie losing her job.

😞Sorry for/about something you did.
I'm sorry for shouting at you yesterday.

😞Feel sorry for somebody who is in bad situation = I feel sorry for Matt. He's had a lot of bad luck.

😞[+ (that )]
I'm sorry (that) you had such a difficult journey.

😞[+ to infinitive]
We were both sorry to hear you've been ill again.

😞feel sorry for yourself
disapproving to feel sad because you have a problem and you feel that it is not fair that you are suffering so much
He sounded very sorry for himself on the telephone.

😞ေတာင္းပန္ေသာ စကား
Oh, I'm sorry - I didn't see you there.
Tom, I'm so sorry about last night - it was all my fault.
I've said I'm sorry.

Adjective (surprised)

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Surprised အံ့အားသင့္

💝+at
We were very surprised at the result.
It's not like you to behave like this, Alice - I'm surprised at you (= I feel disappointed with you)!

💝+that
I'm not surprised (that) he didn't keep his promise.

💝+to inf
I'm surprised to see you here.

Adjective + about

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🎓Excited about a situation = I am excited about going away next week.
စိတ္လႈပ္႐ွား

🎓Worried about a situation = they don't seem worrired about a situation.
စိတ္ပူ

🎓Upset about a situation = don't get upset about the dress; there is a little stain on it.
အစာမေၾက

🎓Nervous about a situation = I am very nervous about driving again after the accident.
ေၾကာက္

🎓Happy about a situation = Are you happy about/ with your new working arrangement.
ေက်နပ္

School + prepositions

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😃School + prepositions

😃a place where children go to be educated

To
She drives the kids to school every morning.

At
I was at school with (= I went to the same school at the same time as) Luke's brother.

In
Is Emily in school today or is she still ill?

😃the time during the day when children are studying in school

😃before/after school

Eg. Come straight home after school.

Adjective + preposition (pleased)

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pleased
ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေသာ ေက်နပ္ေသာ

+about
😄Are you pleased about John's promotion?

+that
😄We're so pleased that you're able to come to the wedding.

+with
😄I'm really pleased with your work this term.

+to inf
😄I'm pleased to hear you're feeling better.

😄be pleased to do sth
တစ္ခုခုကို အရမ္းလုပ္ခ်င္
The personnel manager will be pleased to advise you.
I'm only too (= very) pleased to help.

😄(I'm) pleased to meet you
ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ေတြ႔ေသာအခါ ႏႈတ္ဆက္ေသာ စကား

😄pleased with yourself
ကိုယ္လုပ္လိုက္တာ သို႔မဟုတ္ ကိုယ့္ကို ေကာင္းတာေတြ ျဖစ္လာတာကို ေက်နပ္
Simon's looking very pleased with himself today.