Any QUESTIONS???
August 14th, 2007
If any of you have questions, clarifications, uncertanties or doubts concerning any area of the subject, please post them as comments and I will do my best to reply to them asap.
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August 18th, 2007 at 8:23 am
nice blog
August 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am
oops wrong one. Anyway, for the list of words you gave me, is RigidFloppy one or two words?
August 18th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Rigid and floppy are two separate words.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Some works have duplicates. Realised that?
August 31st, 2007 at 9:43 pm
what duplicates???
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:09 am
are inquiry and enquiry same or different? If they are different, in what ways are they different? Or are they used differently?
September 19th, 2007 at 8:27 am
i’m sure it is different.
you know ziwei, if you can check the dictionary,
why bother asking?
don’t treat us or mr grosse as DICTIONARIES.
rawr.
mr grosse,
>> do you have more practices on synthesis and transformation?
>> can you post them or anything? i need help in that section..
and grammar also.
((: thanks
September 24th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Mr Grosse, I have some questions about the rules of grammar & punctuation.
Q1)Tom is as smart as she/her.
It seems to me that her “sounds” correct, but according to this “www.grammarbook.com”, we should do Tom is as smart as she is”, so “she” is the answer right?
Q2) Between you and I/me, this class is a joke.
If I go by the “sound”, I will choose “me” and though “me” is the correct ans, but what is the rule behind this? I’m still confused.
Q3) erm…what is the difference between “which” and “that”.
According to the website, “that” introduces essential clauses while “which”introduces nonessential clauses. Essential clauses do not have commas surrounding them while nonessential clauses do contain commas.
It’s weird. =,=
Question abt punctuation.
Q1) For words like “James”, “Princess”, “Princessess”, how do we put the apostrophes.. like “James’ bicycle” or “James’s bicycle”?
September 28th, 2007 at 3:41 am
mr grosse,
in my assessment paper, there’ this question:
Aunt Susie has decided to take my sister and ___ to Perth at the end of the year.
(1) I (2) me (3) mine (4) myself
I put the answer as 1, but the answer key says its 2.
is there a particular rule there?
(: thanks.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Aunt Susie has decided to take my sister and ___ to Perth at the end of the year.
(1) I (2) me (3) mine (4) myself
I put the answer as 1, but the answer key says its 2.
Both pronouns are in the object position. So the third person personal pronoun is required. e.g. me
My aunt is taking me to Perth.
My aunt is taking him to Perth.
Got it?
September 29th, 2007 at 4:39 am
oh. so when you refer to object position,
you mean?
ah. what’s the difference between object and subject.
that’s something that i never really understood
so, during PSLE, to check whether i’m correct:
Aunt Susie has decided to take my sister and me to Perth at the end of the year.
- i take out the “my sister”.
-> Aunt Susie has decided to take me to Perth at the end of the year.
So that’ correct.
But if i had put “I”,
then:
Aunt Susie has decided to take I to Perth at the end of the year.
Which is wrong..
is that another way to check if i’m correct or wrong?
October 1st, 2007 at 8:08 am
MRGROSSE!?
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:34 am
erm.
can you explain it to me here?
you didn’t explain it in school..
and i really need the explanation.
(: thanks.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 am
Subjects perform an action.
Objects have actions performed on them.
The man(subject) is hitting the table (object)
Aunt Susie has decided to take my sister and me to Perth at the end of the year.
- i take out the “my sister”.
-> Aunt Susie has decided to take me to Perth at the end of the year.
So that’ correct.
But if i had put “I”,
then:
Aunt Susie has decided to take I to Perth at the end of the year.
Which is wrong..
is that another way to check if i’m correct or wrong?
You are right on all counts!
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:26 am
AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
(: okay thanks alot.
;D
October 5th, 2007 at 6:33 am
ITS OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (X
December 9th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
mr grosse tell that salesman to buzz off.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
mrgrosse, hello ;D hope you see this.
er can you explain something again?
whats the difference between ‘resolution’ and ‘conclusion’?
my LA teacher insists its the same? or there’s NOT much difference. and i dont agree, but i dont know how to explain.
please reply..
hope you had a fun time in rosyth
January 17th, 2008 at 6:20 am
YAY THIS BLOG IS STILL HERE!
What do you suppose would happen if there was no language in the world?
We had an awful lot of fun thinking about how to get about in things.
Anyway, rgs rocks, i miss rosyth, and i heard mr grosse ain’t teaching my cousin!
Isn’t that sad? he had been looking forward to it.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:32 am
GOSH.. I NEED HELP WITH ENGLISH HOMEWORK!
MR GROSSE ?
January 20th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Mr Grosse here.
Good to hear from all of you.
What questions on EL do you have Cassandra?
For me, the difference between a resolution and a conclusion is that resolution refers to how the main conflict/complication in a narrative is resolved to ends or turns out.
The conclusion of a story is how it ends. Remember the different ways I taught you end a story. There could be a moral, reflections or thoughts.
Another example,in Sleeping Beauty the resolution is the Prince killing the evil fairy. The story concludes with the Prince marrying Cinderella, a happy ever after conclusion.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
OH.
oh i get it.
um… i dontknow.
i got to write a short story.
but mainly, the teacher said a short story should be..
based on some things like… um…
it should be realistic? but she said supernatural was allowed…
gosh i dont understand ><
January 24th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Oh.
Um..
the teacher explained.
mainly the story has to be realistic,
that is possible to take place. ;D
February 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Ths blog is still frequented by 2005-2007 gepers! Hooray!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
RIGHT SEAN.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.
well, glad to know you’re still alive (:
February 24th, 2008 at 5:51 am
visited the blog first time this year…
glad its still ’round.
And, Sean, don’t overreact.
February 24th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Oh yeah, I got a question.
Mr Grosse, Cassandra mentioned short stories.
Is there a particular reason why authors of short stories use an indirect approach to write the story,
e.g. the author doesn’t write “He was dead.”, but writes “He lay there, still, eyes glassy, watching the heavens as the clouds floated by, the warmth of life following the clouds, slowly floating away.”?
February 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
hahaha garyheng (:
um.. to make the short story longer? ;D
March 29th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I read farenheit 451 in school and personally i don’t like it much. And our eng teacher said we can’t use sentence fragments in our compos. So when I started a compo with ‘List’ like in the list of beginings handout frm p6, my marks got deducted! And worse of all, the teacher was mr grosse’s old rosyth student!!! What was she being taught at that time?!?!?!
June 7th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Wow. didnt know this blog is still active among the p6 ’07s. that’s cool! hi peeps. I agree with An Yan, RGS rocks. Cant wait for my next visit to Rosyth.
Btw, An Yan, who is your English teacher? dont tell me Mrs Joyce Yap?
June 7th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Cherie, this place is not a tagboard.
Try not to post any comments unrelated to English over here.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am
ya.
anyway, MR GROSSE.
you didn’t reply -.-
hm, actually,
maybe these indirect sentences are used to better express the atmosphere? when you say ‘he was dead’, you can’t really sense the present atmosphere at that scene, but when you elaborate with no direct affirmation that the person was DEAD, it makes the reader wonder: did he die? did he just pass out? what happened?
in a way, maybe it helps to attract readers.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Could it be related to the “show but not tell” thing we are supposed to use in compositions?
June 8th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
should be. ;D
anyway, it’ll engage readers for sure. ^^
June 30th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Long were the good ol’ days in Rosyth…
July 5th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Hello again!
I was just wondering, if you have some more quotes, can you post them at your free time? I was reading through the quotes you posted here before and i found them really encouraging. Don’t know why. Like the one by Lynn Hall? (: There’s a lack of quotes now, and i’m tired of reading the ones in my handbook already.
Y’know, Mr Grosse, english lessons are boring now. Wish you were still our English teacher
August 17th, 2008 at 8:42 am
mm yay this blog is still around
reminiscing the right-before-psle moments and the passages that we had to annotate and realise that actually i really enjoy reading compre passages
that’s probably the nicest thing about doing a compre. lols.
oh realised that this comment is in the wrong topic but nvm, can’t be bothered to change.
i wonder whether any of our juniors read this blog…
hmm pondering on whether i shld offer remedial lessons to rosythians after the EOYs. any1 keen on the idea?
… nvm i realised that practically no1 reads this blog anymore.
but… by chance?
ok lol i’ve been crapping alot now. hope s’pore wins at least 1 ttennis gold @ the olympics
mr grosse! do u still visit this blog? post if u do!
oh yeah, cass, i miss the quotes
and my el teacher is pretty scary. seriously.