Community College - Class on Sep. 28, 2009

Dear All,

Last time, we discussed the questions on "Writing Practice 1"; lots of the usages and sentences were covered.

I.
We talked about how to make "Noun Clause" by using "who, what, where, when, why, how much / how many" and did some practices on combining sentences and translation.

Here are the example used last night.

who -
Can you tell me who you are?
I don't know who my dad is talking to.

what -
Can you tell me what your telephone number is?
I don't understand what you are talking about.

where -
Do you know where he lives?
Can you tell me where the post office is?

when -
I don't know when dad will be home.
Can you tell me when we are leaving?

why -
The teacher wants to know why I didn't hang in homework yesterday.
John wants to know why Jean left early last night.

how much -
Can you tell me how much it costs?
I am not sure how much it will be.

how many -
Can you tell me how many people there are in your family?
I am not sure how many books I have.


II.
After that, we talked about the usages of because / so / so that / so..... that

because -
Sam eats a lot because he is very hungry.

so -
John is hungry so he can eat a lot.

so that -
John is hungry so that he can eat a lot.

so .... that -
Sam is so hungry that he eats a lot.

III.
Then, the usages of neither .. nor / either ... or were discussed.

neither ... nor --> 表示A和B兩個都不行做某件事。要注意的是 neither ... nor 已有否定的意思，所以不形接否定動詞在後面。