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Zahed Ansari, Hyderabad

Q: Is the word 'clothes' plural or

singular?

A: 'Clothes' is always plural.

Cloth is the material of

which clothes are made and is

usually uncountable.

Q: i) They are stood/ sit = xE- o/ aE o

ii) They have been stood/ sit = x Cl * p E o u j?

A: i) Wrong. They are standing/ sitting -

Correct.

ii) They have been standing/ sitting-

Correct. ('Be' forms are followed always by

the '... ing' form or the past participle)

Q: N--- -- ticket o Please translate into English.

A: I bought the ticket to Vijayawada by

Satavahana express.

Q: As your wish/ as your like - Which one is

correct?

A: As you wish/ as you like - are correct.

Q: To dad, with love, as you like it, a girl on thetrain, standing up yourself - Please translate

into Telugu..

A: To dad with love = v o(Writing a letter/ presenting something)

A girl on the train = A girl travelling by train.

Standing up yourself - No meaning.

Hemanth & Suresh, Nehru Nagar

Q: p * school absent u/po* school x = Since whenhas been absent from school - Is this

correct?

A: Since when has he been absent?/ has he

not been attending school?

Q: x *apo* Fo d = Wehave all these difficulties since they came

here - Is this correct?

A: We have been having these difficulties

since they came here.

Q: Activity/ work

A: Activity = Work

Q: E\ Od = You don't likemy coming here - Is this correct?

A: Correct.

Q: vA (Eo) J Jh E aJ uiC. \ o. -Please say in English.

A: By the time the concert was over, it was too

late. So I slept here.

K. Sreenu, Hyderabad

Q: "She would rather we stayed till tomorrow".

j u tense N? E Jh nNJ.

A: She'd (she would) rather we stayed tilltomorrow = She wishes that we should stay

here till tomorrow. ( -C, E)

Q: Will, was a u tense ?

A: Will - future tense, was - past tense.

She will know somehow that he was here

= hC, \ o() E.

Varshitha Jyoshi, Khammam

Q: I could hear voices in the next room - Please

say in Telugu.

A: L C J NL/ N

LT JnA o.Q: tE M Bx l B

x . p h J J yx N Pp Eao? = I had told you not to take tothe Haveli. Why did you take him there?

Now look at him how he is stood like a crip-

pled sculpture got taken out by the archeo-

logical department in diggings.

- Is this translation correct?

A: I had told you not to take him to the Haveli,

but you did. See, how he is standing like a

maimed sculpture, found in the excavations

of the archeological department.

Q: They must have been writing/ They must be

writing - Is this used in Spoken English?

A: They must have been writing = (At some-

time in the past) they were surely writing.

They must be writing = (Now) They

are surely writing.

The sentences are used in

Spoken English.

Vikram Singhal, Khammam

Q: He must have told you/ must not have told

you - Please say in Telugu.

A: *a F p ()

He must not have told

you = F p (C JT).Q: He should have told

you/ He should not

have told you -

Please clarify in

Telugu.

A: F p LqC. F p/ F p , F p.

Q: It is time, the producers produced/ produce

good films - Please clarify.

A: It is time the producers produced goodmovies = Et * *v EJt C. ( - EJtLqC)

Q: There is no use of his coming here/ telling

me - Is this correct?

A: There is no use telling me/ his

coming here - Correct.

Salman Khan, Vijayawada

Q: "I am seeing the doctor" - You said

the above sentence is correct in a

lesson. But it was you who said

that the verbs like taste, know,

understand, see, hear, smell etc

should not be used in progressive

tense - Please clarify.

A: 'See' (Past tense - Saw) has two meanings.

1) to notice what appears to us ( E

), 2) Meet ()With the second meaning, 'mee

be used in am + ing/ is + ing/ are +

Q: By whom was the bell rung?/ W

bell rung by? - Which is right?

A: Who was the bell rung by?

In present day English, this is p

'By whom was the bell rung?"

Q: i) O Ka a ho.

ii) O aE lesson p iii) O aE lesson h-o

pL. u pL?

A: i) I see for the first time your si

chair.

ii) This is the first time for you

teach/ to sit while teaching.

iii) You are teaching, sitting/ Yo

you were teaching/ You shou

you teach.

Q: s injection pLtranslate the above into English.

A: I have to have my son given an

Q: E- o = They aE o They are d?

A: Wrong.

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M. SURESAN

Spoken English - u- -x --... www.eenadupratibha.net

Subhankar:

How good

are you at

English? (FEnglish a?)

Priya: Why, Ican speak

and write

well. (?? English x;.)

Subhankar: Can you follow the dialogues in

English movies made in the US? I mean,

American pronunciation. (J EJtEnglish Ex n ? American aE English.)

Priya: To a great extent, yes. I cannot if they

speak very fast. ( n .K - xp v n .)

Subhankar: I regret I can't (cannot), try as Imight. The movies can be boring if you can't

follow the dialogues. ( n Ep o.) vAo* n , N Ndh.)

Priya: Yea. They can, certainly. For example, I

can't (cannot) follow Hindi movies. I see

them only for the songs. They can entertain

you. (, p. N D E n . E h. N .)

Subhankar: You can be of some help for me.

(y .)

Look at the following expressions from the

conversations above.

1) I can write and speakwell.

2) Can you follow the dialogues?

3) I cannot, if they speak very fast.

4) The movie can be very boring if you cannot

follow the dialogues.5) They can entertain you.

j u--Eox can - Np .

1) I can write and speakEnglish well = English , x., Can, ability E/ N

Eo C. ~ t Can , LT-- n \- . nu (ability)J* --C. Can be =; Can do/sing/ walk = / / .Prasanth: How fast can you walk? (y

?)Suresh: I can walk7 to 8 Kms an hour. (

, 7, 8 .O. .)Ganesh: Can you be here at 8 tomorrow

morning? ( , ENC \?)

Keshav: I am afraid. I can't (cannot) be. It's a

bit too early. ( o, C !)

Ganesh: Then, when is the earliest you can

be here? ( y ?)

Keshav: I can certainly be here

(E\ NtC p Suseela: Other than Telugu, what

can you speak?

( x-?)

Jyothi: I can speak

English and Hindi

too. ( English,D x.)

Suseela: How about

Tamil? (JN?)

Jyothi: I cannot ( x.)j Lx, 'Can' nuE

L .Can = Be able

'Can' , 'able' can,

--L-TC -LT, hoC C.She can sing = .She is able to sing = , (, sEo d can E pa.)Munaf: You doubted her ability to sp

( N xEo )

Manoj: So what now? ( ?Munaf: Look. Listen well and tell me

she can speak. ( N, x p.)aJ 'can' JEo

How fast can you walk?How fast can you walk?

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Seetharamacharyulu, Hanmakonda

Q: O Bh-o / d ---o - Translate into English.

A: You are disgracing me / you are drag-ging my name in mud.

Q: He is seeing the Principal - Here the underlined

word should not be used in Present Progressive

Tense - Please Clarify.

A: See = i) to notice something that appears (-). With this meaning, we don't use am seeing/ is seeing / are seeing.

ii) to meet somebody - with this meaning we can

use: am / is / are seeing.

Q: I have been watching the T.V. during / for five hours now.

Which one of the above is correct?

A: ......... for five hours - Correct.

Q: Are the new expressions like go together, call something a

day, used forever.

A: Yes. The second one is not 'call something

a day'. It is 'Call it a day'.

Q: He is a minor for gold - Translate intoTelugu.

A: He is miner (not minor) for gold = He is a person

who tries to get gold out of a gold mine ( E* B).

Q: He works for the school / at the school / in the school

- Which is right?

A: He works in the school / for the school - correct - He

is a teacher.

He works at the school = He is an employee in the school; may

not be a teacher.

Q: Bail out - n NJ.A: Help somebody in a dangerous situation / Help somebody

escape from a difficult situation.

Yours sincerely or Yours truly?

M. SURESAN

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Abhijith: A very attractive thing - this new bike

from the makers of famous bikes.

Customers can queue for it. (vCl CKx h j {C. x DE u da).

Bhavan: I expect it to be certainly more than

Rs. 60000/- (j N E .)

Abhijith: It can even be more than Rs.

70000/- (js N a).Bhavan: Shall I ask for a test ride? Not that I

want to buy, but we can have fun (Test ride

= K-~-- ). Test ride ? E, h aE).

Abhijith: Don't do that. They can mistake youfor a possible buyer. They can no end

pester you to buy it. (C. y E x a. p xEo E C a).

Bhavan: That's a point too. Let's not give them

a false impression.

, 'Can' ?

Can nu L-- h.Present (vh), Future (Nu).She can sing very well =

- Present ability.They can complete it tomorrow = x Eo Jh - - Future ability.

Can () , able (LT, ) o L, o, ?

p 'can' o l.Look at the following sentences from the

conversation above between Abhijith and

Bhavan:

1. Customers can queue for it.

2. It can be even more than Rs. 70000.

3. They can mistake you for a possible buyer.

4. They can no end pester you (Pester = C)

In all the sentences above, 'can' express-

es a possibility (j uEox'can' Possibility = J Eo C).

So 'can' expresses a Present / Future

Possibility (J -Eo) LhC p F Nuh F.Sudheer: Shall I take Sumanth also into the

team? ( d B?)

Gajanan: He can certainly strengthen the

team. Take him. ( d a- C. B).Can strengthen - a C,

a Future Possibility - Nu a.Chakori: How long have we to wait here for

Vineetha? (NF p L).Jayanthi: She

promised to

be here on

time. She

can be very

close. Her

car can bring

her here inanother few

minutes.

( EahE*aC._a. E\ Cl EN-xB- -- a.

i) can be very close - _ a.ii) can bring her... a few minutes (B--

a). 'can' possibility in the present or

future a.

Customers can queuefor it

Shivaraj Choupal, Warangal

Q: Empirical evidence / Knowledge / Research - Explain the

meanings in Telugu.

A: Empirical evidence/ knowledge/ research = What we see /

learn / find out from our experiments / experience rather than

from theories or ideas = l y, y , E y, v y , a N/ N.

: \ (Magnet), (iron) J{h N y . C empirical.

Q: i) I wish I didn't have to go from here.

ii) He wishes he didn't have to be in this area.

iii) We have already missed a number of movies, I wish we had

seen all of them/ I wish we should have seen all of them.

Are all the above sentences correct?

A: i) I wish I didn't go here = I like not to go from here, but I have to

go = \ * x o. F x p. ( expressions - I wish I didn't ..... BEJ, d J N LETh.)

ii) J, F L.

iii) E p. EoF h They are all correct.

Q: He is not at all well / He is not well. What is the differ

A: 'He is not at all well' is a stronger way of saying, 'He is

Q: Rather than and Rather - Say the usage.A: We use 'rather than' when we compare two things

types, and choose one of the two.

a) I would rather die than tell a lie = for me, dying is better

b) Rather than spend Rs.100 on a useless thing, it will b

spend Rs.500 on a quality product. (It is better to spend

a quality product than Rs.100 on a useless product.)

Q: You had better to be here than going home - Is this rig

A: Right.

Vasundhara Naidu, Rajahmundry

Q: Please explain the following sen-

tences are Improbable Present or

Imaginary past.

i) She wishes she didn't see him. What

is this situation called?

ii) He wishes he had been selected.

iii) She wishes she had / she bought such a neck-

lace.

A: i), ii), iii) Imaginary

past.

Q: i) I wish I have gone

there / I had gone

there.ii) I have seen the Taj

Mahal / I had seen

the Taj Mahal -

Please explain.

A: i) I wish I had gone

there - Correct.

ii) I wish I had seen the

Taj Mahal - Correct.

Sneha Saxena, Sec

Q: Vijayawada * Guntur KhamVijayawada . DEoTx E pL?

A: Khammam is as distant from

Vijayawada as Guntur is from

Vijayawada.

Q: He gets up everyday at 5 O'

clock and go / goes for awalk. Say which one of the

above underlined word is cor-

rect.

A: He gets up every day at 5 O'

clock and goes for a walk -

Correct.

Q: Could I leave the school a little

earlier - is this making a request or seeking permis

A: Permission

Q: She wishes she didn't see him - is this Improbable

Imaginary Past?

A: Refer to the answers to the same question in

letters above.

Seema ChopQ: "Yours sincerely" and "Yours

s C TL?A: i) 'Your sincerely', to friends.

'Yours truly,' at the end of a forma

i) a person you know and respect

ii) to a person you don't know.

Q: I work in / at the school.

Which one is correct?

A: Both are correct .

Q: Are the two adverbs placed side

they are placed, which one is

adverb?

e.g.: very sincerely.

A: In 'Very sincerely', 'Very' and 'sin

both adverbs.

In the sentence, 'The gate slow

'opened' is the verb, modified by

'slowly'.

Usually two verbs are not plac

each other. They are joined by, 'an

(verb 1) and went (verb 2) to bed.

Q: I have a good knowledge / good k

Which is right?

A: 'a good knowledge' - correct

Q: Within one hour / In one hour

- Please clarify.

A: Within one hour = Before the end

In one hour = At the end of one h