20 WAYS TO BEGIN ASKING

1. Are you aware that...?
2. Do you know that...?
3. See if there is...
4. Tell me if...
5. I wonder why...
6. Who tells you about...?
7. It's said that... what do you think?
8. There's a rumor that goes.... what do you say?
9. What is the fact that.... ?
10. What makes you believe that...?
11. Is it true that...?
12. Am I correct on assuming that...?
13. Have you ever been told that...?
14. Is there any evidence that...?
15. Have you ever asked yourself that...?
16. If you could..., what would you do?
17. Let me know what you've known.
18. Whatever you've known is whatever I also want to know.
19. How could I know this if you refuse to tell?
20. You are supposed to do this, aren't you?

LEARNING A PARAGRAPH

When I was a child, someone gave me a microsope.
I spent hours looking through that microsope exploring nature tiny secrets.
As I grew up, I became more interested in my microscope than in people.
When I was 20 years old, my parents sent me to NY city to study medicine.
I never went to any of my classes.
Instead, I spent a lot of my time and my money trying to build a perfect microscope.
But all my experiments failed. The diamond lens- VOA- AMERICAN STORIES.
When I was a child, someone gave me a guitar.
I spent hours playing that guitar exploring its beautiful sounds.
As I grew up, I became more interested in my guitar than in girls.
When I was 18 years old, my parents sent me to HCMC city to study English.
I never went to any of my English classes.
Instead, I spent a lot of my time and my money trying to make a perfect guitar CD.
But all my effort didn't work out.

12 verb tenses in one sentence.

That she gave me what the girls' most precious thing is which I have not been expecting while I had been engaged to another who is now working in HCMC not only was proving what she had been wanting to but also has reminded me a lot of her of what her love will probably bring back to me no matter what my wife will have been doing when we start getting involved again when she will be coming home as her Dad reaches 80 will have been the point.
Rach Gia Nov 19,04

2 BEs IN A SENTENCE

English/ be/ consider/ be/ official language.
The first be must function as a helping verb to go with considered.
The second be must function as a second verb.
English is considered to be an official language.

WHEN NOT TO THINK OF VERB TENSES

I at least leave for HCMC.
I probably leave for HCMC.
I maybe leave for HCMC.
I absolutely leave for HCMC.
I preferably leave for HCMC.
I should leave for HCMC.
I must leave for HCMC.
I one hundred percent leave for HCMC.
I unquestionably leave for HCMC.
I no longer leave for HCMC.
I used to leave for HCMC.
I ought to leave for HCMC.

Sub-clause as subject-

Who invites will pay.
Who invites ought to pay.
Who invites is supposed to pay.
It's likely for those who invite to pay.
Will who invites pay?
Ought who invites to pay?
Is who invites supposed to pay?
Is it likely for those who invite to pay?

Question = Sub-clause

Who will go?
I wonder who will go.
D'you know who will go?
It's good to know who will go.
There's no way of knowing who will go.
Knowing who will go is good.
To know who will go is good.
Who will go means who will leave.
Who will go matters to me.