Just A Story

Salam.
It's either i dont have the idea on what to talk about, or i dont have the time to write what i want to talk abt. Or perhaps both...

I suddenly realised that i have a lot of things to do with so little time left.
so i think in this post i'll juz tell a story, or a few if i have the time.

First Story

I was teaching some of my neighboring kids grammar a few nights ago. The topic for that nite was 'adverbs'. One of the kids asked me, "What is adverb"? At that time, i hvnt look at the questions yet so i simply said "u dont have to know what it really mean". Yikes, i had nvr remember all the names of grammar components. I only know how to use them. Nouns, adverbs, verbs, adjectives, past participle tense, present participle tense, etc... They are juz so hard to be differentiated!

But then, when i go through the questions with them, i realise that adverbs is actually a word with a -ly at the back i.e. carefully, lovingly, loudly...

So now, i can explain what adverb is...
I said, "adverb is when u add a -ly at the back of the word. In Malay, it will be the same as dengan."

I gave a few examples....

carefully - dengan berhat-hati
loudly - dengan kuat
snobbishly - dengan sombong

then....

lovely ??

I got stuck... Lovely = dengan cinta?
Oh oh... This is not good..
"You look lovely today" is just not same as "Awk nampak dengan cinta hari ni" or "Awk nmpk penuh dgn kecintaan hari ni"

So, that's the story of me teaching grammar to small kids.
How i covered up the flaw? I simply ignored lovely, and proceed to other examples.