Pluralisation Nouns Exercise 1

Test your Pluralisation Nouns knowledge

1. 1.If I have .... money, I'll buy a lamborghini car

many
any
much
litle

2.My mother needs only .... salt for cooking soup

litle
many
any
few

3.Do you have ... water? I'm so thirsty

any
some
many
few

4.Could you bring me .... books from shelf?

much
any
some
litle

5. They didn't see .... eyewitnesses when it was happened

some
any
much
litle

Score =
Correct answers:

FYI : How To Greet Someone around the world

Hola, This time, I'm gonna share about information how to greet your friend or new person that you have met him/her for the first time. As you know from school or college, we need to greet them to build a communication between us and to show our politeness. Do you know in this world there are some unique ways how to greet person based on their unique custom.

In western we know the way how to greet someone is by shaking hand and say Good morning/afternoon or evening and say how do you do (if you meet him/her at the first time) or how are you?/ how have you been? (in formal way) or for informal way you only say what's happening? or what's up ? or how's life? and etc.
But in these countries there are some unique way how to greet someone by using some gestures. let's check it out.

1. IN ASIA

Country	Gesture
China	a nod or bow
Hong Kong (older Chinese)	claps hands together at throat level and nod
India	palms together as though praying and bend or nod, callednamaste
Indonesia	say selamat, which means peace
Japan	bow from the waist, palms on thighs, heels together
Korea	a slight bow and handshake (right hand in one or both hands)
Malaysia	both hands touch other person's hands, then are brought back to the breast, called salame gesture
Philippines	a limp handshake
Sri Lanka	place palms together under chin and bow slightly
Thailand	place palms together, elbows down, and bow head slightly, called wai

Source : Factmonster

Another gestures in some countries

1.Waving your hand from one side to the other

• In most countries, this gesture translates into “Hello!”.
• In some countries in Europe, however, as well as in Japan and Latin America, it could end up being translated into a “no” or a general negative response.
• In India, it means “come over here”.

2.Bowing

• In China the gesture is accompanied by the words “nihao” and in Japan by the words “konnichiwa”.
• Many Asian countries use it as a greeting gesture.
• In Europe, it is typical of nobility and aristocracy to use a bow as a greeting sign.
• Depending on the culture and location, there are numerous rules regarding proper bowing (who should bow first, how much should the head be lowered etc.)

3.Kissing

• Another widely used form of greeting, kissing is usually reserved to people who aren’t total strangers to each other.
• In many European countries, people brush cheeks while making a kissing sound. Depending on cultural habits, there is an infinite number of variations to this gesture: from 1 kiss to 4, starting with the left cheek or the right, kissing the hand instead of the cheeks etc.

4.Shaking hands

• This is usually a gesture associated with formal settings, or situations where people meet for the first time.
• A firm, long handshake is considered impolite in France, according to some.
• In South Africa, the stronger the handshake, the better.
• In Russia, it is believed that if 2 people shake hands over a table or with any sort of object between them, that will bring trouble in the relationship.

5.Verbal greetings

• From a simple “Hello!” to “How is your body?”, the words people use in different cultures as a form o greeting are fascinating.
• “Aloha” means “I hope that our every thought benefits each other and the world around us.”.
• In Botswana, people often greet each other by asking “How did you wake?”.
• “Namaste” (Sanskrit) can be defined as “The spirit in me respects the spirit in you.”.

Okay , I think enough for your information about FYI : How To Greet Someone around the world in this post. There are so many ways to greet someone that untold in this post. You can search in Google for further information. Whatever the way, the most important is you should respect the custom wherever you are. Thanks for reading.

How to learn English Fun

Nowadays, people around the world alraeady know about English. In daily life, we can find English (at least words) in every place and every time, such as in newspaper, gadget, television and etc. Moreover, children also can learn English quicklier than adult. In spite of, there are still many people that have problem with English. They thought English is very difficult to learn because they thought English was not their mother tongue.

There are many ways that we know to learn English. Some conventional way such as study in school or English course is not quite effective. Besides, they used methods that make us be bored in learning English. Based on my experiences, I learn English autodidactly and very fun. There are some ways that make learning English become an interesting subject and make us love to learn it. What are they?

1. Watching English Movie

Who doesn't like watch movie? Every people from child until adult like to watch movie.To learn English fun, you can try watch English movie without a subtitle. From that you can gain many new vocabularies and also improve your communication skill. You'll get practice how to say something and express them through the movies. You can watch movie in your spare time with your family or friends but still, don't forget your main duty to study at school. Try it, it's very fun.

2.Listen to the Song and sing it

Music nowadays has become a needs for human in their life. Many researchers believe that listen to the music will help you to avoid the stress and help you to boost your mood. As my experience, I love to listen music before start my morning and doing the activities. Nowadays so many English songs that were made by many artists. You should try to listen to them and sing them. Same as watching movie, you'll got many new words and practice how to say something by using English. You'll accustomed to say it if you always and often sing it.

3. Play Video Games

Not all video games that can help you to improve your English ability. I suggest you to play RPG game or adventure game. Why I suggest them? Because both of them have many tasks in English. And also you need to finish missions. In the mission detailed, you will meet English (if only you choose English language). From those, you can learn many new vocabularies from the game. So not only fun for playing only, you can get new experiences and vocabularies from a game too.

4. Chat in Social media

Social Media nowadays can't be separated from our life. Start from facebook, twitter, instagram, path and etc. Maybe you have account in each of them. In social media, you'll meet new friends, not only from your country, but also from another country too. You can try new experience and practice your English by invite them to chat with you by using English. No matter your English is still bad, if you often practice it, your ability will be improved by itself. By chatting with them, not only new friends that you'll get, but also, if you're lucky you can get a girlfriend/boyfriend hehe.

5. Advertisement

If you watch television, it will have advertisement between a program to another program or if you read newspaper or going somewhere, you'll see advertisement/poster/banner by using English. From them, you can gain many new vocabularies if you're interested to read them. In your gadget or if you buy new electronic things, you'll meet procedure books that used English.

6.Join the Community

It's hard to speak English well if you don't practice it alot. I suggest you to join a community who love speak English. This community not only help you to improve your communication skill, but also your social interaction and also your attitude. By joining a community (English Community) you could also share your experience and your problem with your friends, meet new friends and learn many things from them.

Okay, those are my opinion based on my experience how to learn English fun. If anyone want to add other ways else, you can give comment below to add some opinions. Thanks for read.

Using of Pluralisation Nouns

In concept of countable and uncountable nouns, we know if the things are more than 1 or in big quantities, we should use some special rules, for example in countable nouns we use suffix -s/-es. However, we also can use adjective many/much, few/little and some/any to express the plural form of it. What are differences between them?Let's check it out.

#1. Much Or Many?

In Indonesia, much or many means "banyak". It shows the big quantities of something, which :

NOTE :

Because of Uncountable noun, we don't need to add final -s/-es after noun in plural forms

• MUCH is used for expressing plural form "banyak" for uncountable noun.
Example :
• Her uncle had given us much money since two days ago.
• That drunkard drank much alcohol and ate much noodle last night.
• We don't need much flour and much oil to fry it.
• MANY is used for expressing plural form "banyak" for countable noun.

NOTE :

Not all of countable noun add by final -s/-es for plural form. Remember there are some noun are irregular form >>see this article

Example :

• Gigih reads many magazines and collects many toys.
• Do you see many children in my house?
• We don't need buy many glasses and plates.

#2. Little or Few?

In Indonesia, Little or Few means "sedikit". It means that the numbers or quantities are lower than much/many but still more than a/an.

• LITTLE, is "sedikit" that used for Uncountable Nouns. Using of Little can be used stand alone or adding by article a ..... of .....

Example

1. My brother tasted a little of honey from my uncle.
2. Sania doesn't pour little powder onto the cake.
3. He looks little nervous before his performance.
• FEW, is "sedikit" that used for Countable nouns. Same with little, Few also used stand alone or adding by article a .... of .....

Example :

1. Your monkey eats few bananas every days.
2. I catch few butterflies in the garden and I'll release them soon.

#3.Some or Any?

NOTE :

Remember, SOME / ANY can be used by both uncountable and countable nouns. The only things that differentiate it only form of the sentences, which SOME for Positive and offering, while ANY for Negative and Interrogative

Some or Any in Indonesian means "beberapa" (several). It's not different between countable and uncountable nouns for using some or any, excepts some countable nouns are using -s/-es after the nouns (to show their pluralisation).

• SOME is used for POSITIVE Sentence and OFFERING sentence (in questions). Let's read these example:
1. Fitrah drinks some water in the kitchen.
2. Would you like some meatballs or juice?
3. I like some potatoes when I'm hungry.
4. Do you like some salt in your soup?
• ANY, is used for NEGATIVE sentence and INTERROGATIVE sentence (in questions).
1. Do you have any erasers?
2. I don't have any problems
3. Could you show me any examples?
4. She will not find any meat in the market today.

Countable and Uncountable Noun

In English Grammar, we know about noun or in Indonesia called “kata benda”. There are many kinds of nouns that depend on the characteristics, origin, regularity and quantities.

From the characteristics we know there are 5 kind of nouns, they are : proper nouns, common nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns and collective nouns. From the origin, we know that nouns can be made from adjective or verb by adding suffixes or prefixes. From regularity, we know that nouns there are two, regular and irregular noun. From quantities, we know there are two kinds, they are countable and uncountable nouns

In this post, we will discuss about the last, countable and uncountable nouns.

1. COUNTABLE NOUN

In simple way, we can say countable nouns are nouns which the quantities or numbers can be counted. The characteristics of countable nouns are can be counted because the size of them are big, can be seen by us, concrete,

This following are some example of countable nouns

regular		irregular
singular	plural	singular	plural
book	books	child	children
pen	pens	mouse	mice
knife	knives	man	men
box	boxes	woman	women
butterfly	butterflies	tooth	teeth
wolf	wolves	sheep

How do we count them?

• Singular form

In singular form, we can use article A or An to express them. (read the article A, An, The for the clear explanation). In singular form, we only use A or An without adding suffix –s/-es after it.

Example

1. Nina has a red flower in her livingroom.
2. We took anorange from your garden.
3. Miyashi will buy aunique computer.
4. I am walking on the rain by using anumbrella
• Plural form

For Plural form, we can use suffix –s/-es to express it while we can also add adverb of quantities such as many/few/some/any before it. Pay attention to add –es/-es because there are some rules of it. You can read it from this article (Rules of adding suffix –s/-es for plural nouns).

But mention, not all of nouns can be added by –es/-es, because there are some irregular nouns. Let pay attention with the table below :

IRREGULAR NOUN
singular		plural
man	seorang laki-laki	men	(banyak) laki-laki
woman	seorang wanita	women	(banyak) wanita
tooth	sebuah gigi	teeth	(banyak) gigi
foot	sebuah kaki	feet	(banyak) kaki
mouse	seekor tikus	mice	(banyak) tikus
louse	seekor kutu	lice	(banyak) kutu
child	seorang anak	children	(banyak) anak
ox	seekor sapi jantan	oxen	(banyak) sapi jantan
sheep	seekor domba	sheep	(banyak) domba
fish	seekor ikan	fish	(banyak)

Examples :

• Mr. Sony writes three letters for two hours
• Marina and bring many magazines and some pens
• My brother caught five butterflies and a coconut bug yesterday.
• Your mother doesn’t buy ten tomatoes, six carrots and two eggs.

2.UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

The uncountable nouns are nouns which can’t be counted in numbers (because of their characteristic/type/size).For example : water, oil,salt, sugar and etc.

How do we count them?

• Singular form

For singular,we use COUNTABLE NOUN for measuring them such as: cup, box, bottle, bowl, plate, kilo and etc.Those measurement is not only for UNCOUNTABLE Noun, but also COUNTABLE NOUN. This following table will explain about singular COUNTABLE NOUN.

expression	meaning	example
a bowl of ....	semangkuk ...	I buy a bowl of noodle
a plate of ...	sepiring ...	I eat a plate of fried rice
a cup of ...	secangkir ..	My father drank a cup of coffee last night
a glass of...	segelas ....	Goku takes a glass of milk in refrigerator
a box of ...	sekotak ...	Do you put a box of sugar here?

• Plural Form

To count them in big quantities, we can use numbers from their measurement for example : a glass become two glasses of milk , a plate become some plates of fried rice. But, we also can use : Much, little, some or any to express it too.

#1.Much means "banyak"

#2.Little means "sedikit"

#3.Some/any means "beberapa",for the differences see : some/any

Example :

• Fitri tropica drinks much water.
• We add little sugar and salt into our food.
• Do you like any sugar?
• They are eating two bowls of chicken noodle.

Okay, I think enough for my explanation about Countable/Uncountable nouns, if you still confused or don't understand, please leave comment and I will reply it soon. Thanks and happy English.