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Comment on A Psychological Method For Learning Languages by Adnan Ali

Adnan Ali — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:41:15 +0000

Wonderful post. Hope to see more soon.

Comment on English Answers by Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:56:18 +0000

No, it sounds very unusal in English. I understand what you mean, however, it just doesn’t sound right. If you replace “rendered” with “caused to be” it still wouldn’t sound right. You wouldn’t say, “My mother caused me to be a doctor.” You could use words like “encouraged” or “pushed”, but “rendered” has a different sense altogether.

Comment on English Answers by Danieru Karubeito

Danieru Karubeito — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:50:47 +0000

Can I say my mother rendered me to be a doctor?

Comment on English Answers by Graeme

Graeme — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:43:07 +0000

Here are a couple of examples:

Past tense: The invention of the motor vehicle (car) eventually rendered the horse and carriage obsolete.

Future tense: If you drop your mobile phone in the bath, it will render it useless (i.e. damage it).

I hope this helps.

Comment on English Answers by Danieru Karubeito

Danieru Karubeito — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:36:30 +0000

Im stuck understanding how to use the word ‘render’ when the meaning is : to cause to become
can you help explain this to me please?

Comment on Kiwi Slang – B by Tin

Tin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:14:42 +0000

Thank you so much. It is brilliant.

Comment on Kiwi Slang – A by Tin

Tin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:09:16 +0000

That post is awesome. Thank you so much.

Comment on Scrabble for ESL by Tin

Tin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:03:09 +0000

I like playing scrabble. Thanks for your directions.

Comment on Are you bored or boring? by tin

tin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:52:49 +0000

Thank you so much, sir. I was confused a lot with those similar verbs. (please kindly correct my sentences if Iwas wrong. Thank you again.)

Comment on Christchurch Earthquake Vocabulary by tiam

tiam — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:40:59 +0000

I really appreciate your effort. I am going to use this for my students and I am sure it will help.