singular and plural
I confuse the singular and plural expressions.
I mistake these all the time.
These make me stressful together with "a", "an", "the" and the words that are no need anything.
For example, I understand "some" is treated to the plural, but why "any" is too?
"someone" and "anyone" are different, aren't they?
There is another example.
"family" is dealt as singular, but "people" is the plural.
Other examples are too much.
Bread, milk, butter, and so on.
These are all countable in Korea.
I sometimes feel frustration to studying English.
I'm taking an online lesson about the basic English, and I got the score 50%.
English is too hard for me. ㅜㅜ
I dream all people use Korean only. This is a joke as you know. ㅋㅋ
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Thank you very much. 정말 감사해요 ^^
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Sorry for the typos! (Im writing this on my phone)
-at the beginning it is some, not ysome.
-in the ninth line it is like -not like-
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YSome and any are for uncountable nouns. Some is used for affirmative: There is some milk on the fridge, and any for negative and questions: There isn't any butter on the fridge. Is there any milk on the fridge? Also you can say some in questions when you're offering something: Would you like some milk in your coffee?
These nouns are uncountable because you cant count them themselves like one milk or two milks -books can be counted kike this, that's why they are countable- but you have to count how many bottles of milk there are or how many cups of milk there are, like "there is a bottle of milk" and then you use the articles there because you are counting bottles which is countable. Or you just say "There is some milk", you dont say exactly how much, you just say that there is milk.
Also, family(가족) is singular and its plural is families(가족들이), people(사람들) is the plural for person (사람).
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고마워요 andenika ^^
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네, 맞아요! 외국어를 배우기가 너무 너무 어려워요!
'Anyone'하고 'Someone'가 달라요. 예를 들어줄게요:
This food is easy to make so anyone can do it. (누구나 요리할 수 있다. 많은 사람들이 요리한다.)
Anyone can come to my party. (누구나 올 수 있다. 많은 사람들이 온다.)
Someone is calling me. (어떤 사람이 전화하고 있다. 사람 1명이 전화한다.)
Someone will teach me English. (어떤 사람이 가르쳐줄 것이다. 사람 1명 가르쳐준다.)
언제든지 영어에 대해 궁금하시면 저에게 물어보세요 ^^
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