Both/and vs Either/or

Look at the sentences below:

Both John and Lucy are my friend
Either John or Lucy is my friend

Both/and and Either/or have the same meaning, but only different in the subject of the sentence. Both/and means the two subject (in the sentence above between John and Lucy) do the same thing. While Either/or means that whether John or Lucy is my friend, John is my friend or Lucy is my friend. Still confused?

Look at the examples below:

You may buy both book and pencil. (you may buy the two items, book and pencil)
You may buy either book or pencil. (you may choose one of the items, book or pencil)


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Before and In front of

As preposition:

Look at these sentences:

I sat in front of him.
I sat before him.

The first sentence means that I sat physically in your sight (it indicates a place) while the second sentence means that I sat the first time then he sat after me (it indicates the time)

Before also used as the conjunction as follow:

Before I enter the room, I knock at the door.

Before is also used to show past time: (check this post about Ago and Before)

I have never been here before.


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Questions in Learning English

Hello readers, are you learning English? Well, when you learn English, it's very important for you to ask questions because asking questions means leading the conversations. The more questions you ask, the faster you will learn English. In this blog, there is a navigation tab that allows you ask questions to me. You can try it and I will be very glad to answer your question because I also can learn from your question.

As you can see, there are closed and open questions in English. Please take a look at these examples: Are you from China? Do you speak English? Do you have a car? These three questions are closed questions because they all start with a verb (are or do). An open question starts with a question word: What is your favourite colour? Where are you from? What is your name? What company do you work for? What does this word mean? One of the most important questions you should constantly ask yourself is this: Why do I learn English? Because if you know why you do, you will find the means how to learn English.


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Asking for help in polite English for Business purposes

Below are the examples of asking-for-help-expressions for Business purposes and said politely:

Could you please...?
Would you please...?
Would you mind (verb-ing)...?
Could you do me a favor?



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Theirselves or themselves

Hello readers, Good morning (or afternoon/evening when you read this entry). Somebody asked me which is right, theirselves/their selves or themselves.
I once read the post from a blogger like this:

And for blogger, we can speak loud in our blog about Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009 to any bloggers and how the ways are, so that they can begin it from their selves, then to their family, their neighbor, and society. Is that good huh?

Well, readers and you, who asked me. Look at the list below. They are the right ones.

Myself
Himself
yourself
herself
themselves
itself

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