WhenyouarelearningEnglish,youfinditnotclevertoputanEnglishsentence,wordforword,intoyourownlanguage.Takethesentence“Howdoyoudo?”asanexample.Ifyoulookupeachwordinthedictionary,oneatatime,whatisyourtranslation?Itmustbeawrongsentenceinyourownlanguage.
Languagesdonotjusthavedifferentsounds,theyaredifferentinmanyways.It’simportanttomastertherulesforwordorderinthestudyofEnglish,too.Ifthespeakersputwordsinawrongorder,thelistenercan’tunderstandthespeaker’ssentenceeasily.SometimeswhentheorderofwordsinanEnglishsentenceischanged,themeaningofthesentencechanges.Butsometimestheorderischanged,themeaningofthesentencedoesn’tchange.Let’sseethedifferencebetweenthetwopairsofsentences.
“Sheonlylikesapples.”“Onlyshelikesapples”.
“Ihaveseenthefilmalready.”“Ihavealreadyseenthefilm.”
WhenyouarelearningEnglish,youmustdoyourbesttogetthespiritofthelanguageanduseitastheEnglishspeakerdoes.
40.Whichisthebesttitleforthispassage?
A.HowtoLearnEnglishB.HowtoSpeakEnglish
C.HowtoPutEnglishintoOurOwnLanguageD.DifferentOrders,DifferentMeanings