A Beginning Language-Learning Tip

Translate:

The apple is red

It is John's apple

I give John the apple

We give him the apple

He gives it to John

She gives it to him


Then add negations:

The apple is not red

It is not John's apple

We don't give him the apple

He doesn't give it to John

She doesn't give it to him


Then add 'helping' terms:

I need/want to/must/should/can/

Then negate them:

can't/shouldn't/mustn't/don't want to/don't need to


Then add qualifiers:

(straightaway/eventually/-ly words like reluctantly, quickly, slowly, eagerly)



And then change tenses


Then add plurals


Then alter the point of emphasis in each sentence


Then change identifiers:

(A/an/the/this/these/that/those/that over there/those over there/some/all/one, two, three, twenty)


Learn sentence-linking words:

And/but/however/then/so/accordingly/because


Translate:

The apple gets given