About this Site
Welcome to Swara Bhaskara’s English.
This site contains bilingual English materials intended especially for those who have difficulties in understanding this language when solely written in English. Here, you will learn the English grammar, the basics that you must know in order to understand the language better. Most of the articles posted here are based on the Cliffs’ TOEFL Preparation Guide written by Jerry Bobrow and William A. Covino, as well as the Understanding and Using English Grammar written by Betty Schrampfer Azar. Because of these two books and my almost seven-year living in Canada, I’d like to note that the articles here are the American English that is quite different from the British one.
As you’ve noticed, this blog is just a newly born one, therefore, you might not find what you are looking for. However, we will continuously update its contents to make it a content-rich English learning site. If you’d like to request certain topics, please feel free to do so. We will put the topic you have requested as a priority and post it sooner than the ones we have scheduled to post. And, if you encounter any mistakes, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Learning from mistakes is one good thing but learning from something incorrect is really bad one. We, of course, don’t want this to happen to our readers. Thank you for coming by, and enjoy!
Best regards,
Swara Bhaskara
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Salam,
Situs ini sangat baik dan bermanfaat untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa inggris, dan saya senang bisa menemukannya.
Bagaimana kalau situs ini juga menyediakan TOEFL?
Terimakasih.
Salam. How are you Mr. Situmorang?
My intention is to make this blog useful for everybody. I would be very happy, if I could achieve that.
Menyediakan TOEFL? I’ll see. Thanks for your suggestion.
You’re welcome.
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wow… finally i found this site
i have been trying learning english gramar unsing ‘Understanding and Using English Grammar written’ book by Betty Schrampfer Azar since a few month ago. i think that book is really good in explanation and also gives us some helpful exercise. but sir, i found some difficulties to answer some of the question there. so may i post my answer to you so you can help me check my answers. because i didnt have someone who can tell me the true and the mistake which i had made.
btw, i try to write in english and know that i have made some mistake. but please help me correct my messy english sir.
thank you.
Hi Pujiedriany.
It’s such a pleasure to have you here. And, do you know what? Your English is excellent. You’re just being modest when you said “my messy English“, but I like this character though.
If you’d like to discuss questions in that book with us, please feel free to do so. Besides, you’re also welcomed to answer other visitors’ questions. Getting involved in this kind of discussion will help improve your English faster.
Regarding your writing, here are my suggestions.
1. If the verb TRY is directly followed by another verb, the following verb should be in the infinitive form.
I have been trying to learn English grammar….
2. Make sure that countable nouns following “A FEW” or “SOME” are in the plural forms.
a few months ago.
some helpful exercises
some of the questions
some mistakes
3. “… may I post my answer to you so you can help me check my answers?” contains a parallelism problem. “my answer” after the verb POST is not parallel to that after the verb CHECK. This clause should be:
… may I post my answers to you so you can help me check my answers?
or
… may I post my answers to you so you can help me check them?
Or, if the noun ANSWER is singular:
… may I post my answer to you so you can help me check my answer?
or
… may I post my answer to you so you can help me check it?
4. I didn’t have someone????
This sentence has problems of “tense” and “some” usage. It should be in the simple present tense:
I don’t have…
because when you wrote this sentence you hadn’t known whether I would say “yes, please feel free to do so”. Besides, if you use the simple past tense, it is not parallel to the clause “may I post my answers to you so you can help me check my answers” and “who can tell me…” that are in the simple present tense.
Do not use SOME in a negative sentence. In this case, we should use ANY.
I don’t have anyone…
5. “true” is an adjective. Here we need a noun.
…who can tell me the true answers.
Or we can, of course, revise the sentence, for instance, as follows,
…who can tell me whether I have answered the questions correctly.