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Simple Sentence တစ္ခုမွာ clause တစ္ခုသာရွိတယ္။ The children are laughing. John wanted a new bicycle. All the girls are learning English. Compound Sentences Compound sentence မွာေတာ့ clause ႏွစ္ခု၊ ႏွစ္ခုထက္ပုိတယ္။ (We stayed behind) and (finished the job). (We stayed behind) and (finished the job), then (we went home). Compound sentence ထဲက clause ေတြကို co-ordination conjunctions ေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္ရတယ္။ John shouted and everybody waved. We looked everywhere but we couldn’t find him. They are coming by car so they should be here soon. Common co-ordination conjunction ေတြကေတာ့ and; but; or; nor; so; then; yet တုိ႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Complex sentences Complex sentence ေတြမွာ main clause တစ္ခုႏွင့္ adverbial clause တစ္ခု၊ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ တစ္ခုထက္ပုိပါေလ့ရွိတယ္။ Adverbial clause ေတြဟာ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ main clause ရဲ႕ေနာက္က လာေလ့ရွိတယ္။ Her father died when she was very young. Her father died (main clause) when (subordinating conjunction) she was very young (adverbial clause) ...

Prepositional phrase ဟာ preposition တစ္ခုနဲ႔ noun phrase တစ္ခုေပါင္းစပ္ဖြဲ႔စားထားတာျဖစ္ၿပီး ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မ်ားစြာအတြက္ အသံုးျပဳႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ Adverbials of time and place We will be back in a few days . They drove to Glasgow . Postmodifier in a noun phrase Helen is the girl in the red dress . We’ve got a new television with a thirty one inch screen . To show who did something The lion was killed by the hunter . I saw a wonderful painting by Van Gogh . With double object verbs We gave five pounds to the woman on the corner . They got a drink for me . After certain verbs, nouns, and adjectives The book belongs to me . I had an argument with my brother . I feel sorry for you .

Noun phrase အျဖစ္နဲ႔ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ noun တစ္ခု၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ pronoun တစ္ခုသာ သံုးေလ့ရွိတယ္။ People like to have money. I am tired. It is getting late. Determiner နဲ႔ noun တြဲသံုးတာလဲ ရွိတယ္။ Our friends have bought a house in the village. Those houses are very expensive. Adjective လဲ ပါေကာင္းပါႏုိင္တယ္။ Our closest friends have just bought a new house in the village. ရံခါ noun phrase ကုိ qualifier နဲ႔ စေလ့ရွိတယ္။ All those children go to school here. Both of my younger brothers are married. Some people spend a lot of money. Numbers Qualifiers ေတြကို determiners ေတြရဲ႕ ေရွ႕မွာ ထားရတယ္၊ သို႔ေသာ္ numbers ေတြကုိေတာ့ determiners ေတြရဲ႕ ေနာက္မွာ ထားရတယ္။ My four children go to school here. ( All my children go to school here). Those two suitcases are mine. ( Both those suitcases are mine). ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ noun phrases ေတြကို ေအာက္ပါနည္းအတုိင္း ဖြဲ႔စည္းလုိက္ပါ။ Noun : people ; money Determiner + noun : the village ; a house ; our friends ; those houses Qua...

Wh- နဲ႔ စတဲ့စကားလံုးေတြကေတာ့ what, when, where, who, which, why, how တို႔ပါပဲ။ ဒီစကားလံုးေတြနဲ႔ clauses ေတြလုပ္လုိ႔ရပါတယ္။ Wh- questions (See questions and negatives) What are you doing? Who ate all the pies? Why did you do that? After verbs of thinking Know, understand, suppose, remember, forget, wonder I know where you live. She couldn’t remember who he was. John wondered what was going to happen next. If- clauses ေတြကိုလဲ သံုးတယ္။ I wonder if we’ll see Peter. She couldn’t remember if she had posted the letter. After verbs of saying Ask, say, admit, argue, reply, agree, mention, explain, suggest I asked what she wanted. He tried to explain how the accident had happened. She wouldn’t admit what she had done. Did he say when he would come? Tell နဲ႔ အခ်ိဳ႕ verbs of saying ေတြေနာက္မွာ direct object ထည့္ေပးရတယ္။ Tell, remind He tried to tell them what they should do. She reminded me where I had left the car. အခ်ိဳ႕ thinking, ...

1. Yes/no questions Yes/ no ေျဖရတဲ့ questions ေတြကို yes/ no questions လို႔ေခၚတာပါပဲ။ Verb ရဲ႕ ပထမအစိတ္အပုိင္းကုိ subject ရဲ႕ ေရွ႕မွာထားေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ question လုပ္ရတယ္။ They are working hard. Are they working hard? They will be working hard. Will they be working hard? They had worked hard. Had they worked hard? They have been working hard. Have they been working hard? They might have been working hard. Might they have been working hard? 2. Negatives Verb ရဲ႕ ပထမအစိတ္အပိုင္းရဲ႕ ေနာက္မွာ not ထည့္ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ negatives လုပ္ရပါတယ္။ They are not working hard. They will not be working hard. They had not worked hard. They have not been working hard. They might not have been working hard. Spoken English မွာေတာ့ not ကုိ n’t လုိ႔ ခ်ံဳ႕ေျပာေလ့ရွိတယ္။ They aren’t working hard. They won’t be working hard. They hadn’t been working hard, etc.

3. Tense forms in reports and summaries English မွာ what people say or think ကို report လုပ္တဲ့အခါ စဥ္းစားရမွာက Tense forms in reports and summaries ေတြဟာ က်န္တာေတြနဲ႔ အတူတူျဖစ္တယ္ ဆုိတာပါပဲ။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ (၁၀)ႏွစ္က Andrew Brown ေရးခဲ့တဲ့ စာတစ္ေစာင္ I am twenty years old and I am at University studying engineering. I take my final exams next month and I will finish university in July. I want to take a year off and travel round the world. I will need to make some money while I am traveling so I would like to learn to teach English as a second language so that I can make some money while I am abroad. A friend of mine has recommended your course very highly. She also gave me some details, but I would like to ask a few more questions. What courses do you have in the summer and when do they start ? How much do the courses cost ? Is there an examination at the end? I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Andrew Brown Andrew Brown ရဲ႕ story ကို ေရးခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ ေ...

Tense ဟာ reported speech မွာ ႐ႈပ္ေထြးတယ္လုိ႔ထင္ရတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္ rules ေတြအေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ က်န္တာေတြနဲ႔ အတူတူေလာက္ပါပဲ။ 1. What people say or think ကုိ report လုပ္တဲ့အခါမွာ - Clause ကုိ that နဲ႔ ေရးရတာလဲရွိတယ္။ Everybody knew that it was Henry’s birthday tomorrow. She explained that she would do as much as she could to help. သို႔ေသာ္ that ကို ျဖဳတ္ထားလုိ႔လဲ ရတယ္။ Everybody knew it was Henry’s birthday tomorrow. She explained she would do as much as she could to help. Wh- clause, if clause နဲ႔ေရးရတာလဲ ရွိတယ္။ He was asked what he had been doing the previous night. She explained why she went by train rather than by car. To infinitives နဲ႔ ေရးရတာလဲ ရွိတယ္။ We all agree to do as much as we could. Who told you to come ? 2. တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ေျပာတာေတြကို အတိအက် report ျပန္လုပ္တာေတာ့ ရွားပါတယ္။ Summary ေလာက္ပဲ ေျပာေလ့ရွိတယ္။ Mary: Oh dear, we’ve been walking for hours. I am exhausted. I don’t think I can go any further. I really need to stop for a rest. Peter: Don’t worry...

4. Giving Additional Information Relative clauses ေတြမွာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ အရာ၀တၳဳေတြအေၾကာင္း ထပ္မံေျပာဆုိဖို႔ who, whom, whose, which တို႔ကုိ သံုးတယ္။ that ကုိေတာ့ မသံုးဘူး။ As subject My uncle, who was born in Hong Kong , lived most of his life overseas. I have just read Orwell’s 1984, which is one of the most frightening books ever written . Note : Relative pronoun ဟာ clause ရဲ႕ subject ျဖစ္တယ္။ Subject ကို ထပ္မသံုးဘူး။ My uncle, who [ he ] was born in Hong Kong, lived most of his life overseas. I have just read Orwell’s 1984, which [ it ] is one of the most frightening books ever written. As object We saw the latest Harry Potter film, which we really enjoyed . My favorite actor is Marlon Brando, who I saw in “On the Waterfront” . Who အစား whom ကုိ object အျဖစ္သံုးႏုိင္တယ္။ My favorite actor is Marlon Brando, whom I saw in “On the Waterfront”. Note : Relative pronoun ဟာ clause ရဲ႕ object ျဖစ္တယ္။ Object ကို ထပ္မသံုးဘူး။ We saw the latest Harry Potter film, which w...

1. The Relative Pronouns Subject Object Possessive who whom, who whose which which whose that that လူေတြအတြက္ who, whom ကုိသံုးၿပီး အရာ၀တၳဳေတြအတြက္ which ကုိသံုးတယ္။ that ကုိေတာ့ လူေတြအတြက္ေရာ အရာ၀တၳဳေတြအတြက္ေရာ သံုးတယ္။ Relative pronouns ေတြကို relative clauses ေတြကို အထူးျပဳဖုိ႔၊ လူေတြ အရာ၀တၳဳေတြ အေၾကာင္း ထပ္ေျပာဖုိ႔ သံုးတယ္။ 2. Relative clauses to postmodify a noun Relative clauses ေတြဟာ noun ကိုေနာက္ကေနအထူးျပဳတယ္။ ေျပာလုိက္တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ အရာ၀တၱဳေတြဟာ ဘယ္ဟာေတြလဲဆုိတာ ပုိမုိရွင္းလင္းေအာင္ ေျပာျပတယ္။ ဒီ clauses ေတြမွာ who, which, whose သုိ႔မဟုတ္ that ဆိုတဲ့ relative pronouns ေတြကိုသံုးတယ္။ As subject Isn’t that the woman who lives across the road from you? The police said the accident that happened last night was unavoidable. The newspaper reported that the tiger which killed its keeper has been put down. Note: Relative pronoun ဟာ clause ရဲ႕ subject ပဲ။ Subject ကုိ ထပ္မေျပာဘူး။ The woman who [ she ] lives across the road … The tiger which [ it ] kil...

B. Short forms for questions 1. ေနာက္ထပ္သိလုိေသာ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားအတြက္ မၾကာခဏ ေမးခြန္းတိုေလးေတြ ေမးေလ့ရွိတယ္။ A: I’ll see you on Monday. B: What time? A: We are going on holiday next week. B: Where? A: You can get a new computer very cheaply. B: How? ပုိ၍ ယဥ္ေက်းေစခ်င္လွ်င္ ေမးခြန္းရွည္နဲ႔ ေမးႏုိင္တယ္။ A: I’m going to London on Monday. B: What time are you going? A: We are going on holiday next week. B: Where are you going? A: You can get a new computer very cheaply. B: How can I do that? 2. တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ေျပာတာကုိ ျပန္ၫႊန္းခ်င္ရင္ ရံခါ what about/ how about နဲ႔ ေမးေလ့ရွိတယ္။ A: I love the Beatles. What about you? B: Yes, I love their music too. A: Your father seems to be working hard. What about your mother? B: Yes, she is working hard, too. A: I’m exhausted. How about you? B: No, I’m fine. A: I really enjoyed the film. How about you? B: No, I don’t like it very much. 3. တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ေျပာတာကို ျပန္လည္စစ္ေဆးခ်င္ရင္လဲ ေမးခြန္းတိုေလးေတြ ျပန္ေမး...

A: Short forms as answers 1. ေမးခြန္းေတြ ေျဖတဲ့အခါ short form ကိုမၾကာခဏသံုးတယ္။ Verb phrase ရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုးစကားလံုးေလးကုိပဲ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ ျပန္သံုးတယ္။ A: Can you come round tomorrow? B: Yes, I can / No, I can’t . A: Have you seen Jack lately? B: Yes, I have / No, I haven’t . A: Do you like living here? B: Yes, I do / No, I don’t . ရံခါတြင္ Modal verb ကို ေျပာင္းလဲေျဖတယ္။ A: Will you come? B: Yes, we might . A: Do you think they might come? B: Yes, I think they will . 2. ရံခါတြင္ ေမးခြန္းေတြေျဖရာမွာ think, suppose, expect, hope လို verb ေတြကို သုံးတယ္။ သံုးရတြင္- အေျဖက yes ျဖစ္ရင္ so ထည့္ေပးတယ္။ (I expect so / I hope so etc.) အေျဖက no ျဖစ္ရင္ ( I don’t think so/ I don’t suppose so etc.) သို႔ေသာ္ hope နဲ႔ သံုးရင္ေတာ့ (I hope not .) A: Can you come tomorrow? B: I hope so . A: Will they be at home? B: I expect so . A: Is Amsterdam the capital of The Netherlands? B: I don’t think so . A: Do you think it is going to rain? B: I hope not . 3. မ...

(9) Two and three part verbs Two part verbs အခ်ိဳ႕ Verb ေတြမွာ verb ရယ္ particle ရယ္ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ ႏွစ္ပုိင္းရွိတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ two part verbs လို႔ေခၚတယ္။ ဒီ verb ေတြမွာ ေအာက္ပါအတုိင္း Pattern ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားရွိတယ္။ Peter came in . (N+V+p) He took out his diary. (N+V+p+N) He gave the money back . (N+V+N+p) Phrasal Verbs အခ်ိဳ႕ Transitive two part verbs ေတြဟာ phrasal verbs ေတြပါ။ သူတုိ႔မွာ pattern ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိတယ္။ N+V+N+p She gave the money back . He knocked the vase over . We will be leaving our friends behind . N+V+p+N She gave back the money. She knocked over the vase. We will be leaving behind our friends. Object က pronoun ျဖစ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ပထမ pattern ျဖစ္တဲ့ N+V+N+p ကုိသာ သံုးတယ္။ She gave it back. He knocked it over. We will be leaving them behind. Three parts verbs အခ်ိဳ႕ Verb ေတြမွာ verb တစ္ခုရယ္ particle ႏွစ္ခုရယ္ဆုိၿပီး အစိတ္အပိုင္းသံုးခုပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ three part verbs လို႔ေခၚတယ္။ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ pattern ကေတာ့ N+V+p+p+N His girl friend...

Reporting Verbs with that clauses အခ်ိဳ႕ Verb ေတြက report, idea, summary မိတ္ဆက္ေပးတယ္။ ဒီလုိမ်ိဳး verb ေတြရဲ႕ pattern က N+V+(that)+clauses ျဖစ္တယ္။ တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ ေျပာတာ စဥ္းစားတာကို ေျပာျပခ်င္ရင္ that clause ကိုသံုးတယ္။ He said that I had to see a doctor . I thought that he was being silly . That ကုိ ျဖဳတ္ထားၿပီးေျပာလုိ႔လဲ ရတယ္။ He said I had to see a doctor. I thought he was being silly. အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြမွာ object ထည့္ေပးရတယ္။ She reminded him that it was time to go. He told me he was a friend of yours. Pattern: N+V+N+(that)+clause Reporting Verbs with wh- and if clauses အခ်ိဳ႕ Verb ေတြ summaries, reports, questions or problems ေတြကို မိတ္ဆက္ေပးတယ္။ She explained what we had to do. He asked if I was ready. I didn’t know what to do. ဒီ Verb ေတြရဲ႕ pattern ကး N+V+wh-+clause သုိ႔မဟုတ္ N+V+if+clause ျဖစ္တယ္။ She wondered where she was . (N+V+wh+clause) Ken asked if we wanted to go . (N+V+if+clause) အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြမွာ object ထည့္ေပးရတယ္။ She asked me ...

(4) Double Object Verbs Give, bring ကဲ့သုိ႔ေသာ အခ်ိဳ႕verb ေတြမွာ pattern ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိတယ္။ Noun Phrase (Subject) Verb Phrase Noun Phrase (Direct Object) Prepositional Phrase She gave some money to the old man. They brought a lot of food for the animals. N+V+N+P (Noun Phrase+ Verb Phrase + Noun Phrase + Prepositional Phrase Noun Phrase (Subject) Verb Phrase Noun Phrase (Indirect Object) Noun Phrase (Direct Object) She gave the old man some money. They brought the animals a lot of food. N+V+N+N (Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase + Noun Phrase + Noun Phrase) ဒီလုိမ်ိဳး object ႏွစ္ခု ပါတဲ့ verb ေတြကုိ double object verb လို႔ေခၚတယ္။ (6) Verbs with –ing forms အခ်ိဳ႕ transitive verbs ေတြမွာ object အျဖစ္ noun phrase လဲရွိႏုိင္တယ္၊ -ing form လဲရွိႏုိင္တယ္။ Everybody likes good food. (N+V+N) George considered the problem. (N+V+N) Everybody likes eating. (N+V+N) George considered starting again. (N+V+N) (7) Verbs with to infinitive အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြမွာ...

Clause တည္ေဆာက္ပံုေတြဟာ verb အေပၚမွာ မွီတည္ေနပါတယ္။ ဥပမာအားျဖင့္ Intransitive verb = N+V: John/ smiled. Transitive verb + N+V+N: We/ had been playing/ football. Link verb = N+V+Adj: She/ looked/ happy. Phrasal verb = N+V+P+N: She/ gave/ back/ the money. Or N+V+N+P: She/ gave/ the money/ back. (1) Intransitive Verbs Intransitive Verb Pattern ကေတာ့ N+V (Noun+Verb) သာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Clause ဟာ အျခား ဘာမွထပ္ထည့္စရာမလုိဘဲ ျပည့္စံုပါတယ္။ Noun Phrase (Subject) Verb Phrase John smiled. Nothing happened. The baby was sleeping. (2) Transitive Verbs Transitive Verb Pattern ကေတာ့ N+V+N (Noun+Verb+Noun) ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Noun phrase တစ္ခုကို object အေနနဲ႔ ထည့္ေပးရပါတယ္။ Noun Phrase (Subject) Verb Phrase Noun Phrase (Object) John wanted a new bicycle. We had been playing football. Some of the children are learning English. (3) Link Verbs Link Verb ေတြမွာ pattern ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိတယ္။ Adjective Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern ရယ္ Noun Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern ရယ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ P...

English Grammar ရဲ႕ အဓိကအစိတ္အပုိင္းေတြဟာ clauses ေတြပါပဲ။ [an unlucky student almost lost a 17 th century violin worth almost £200,000] [when he left it in the waiting room of a London station] [William Brown inherited the 1698 Stradivarious violin from his mother] [and had just had it valued by a London dealer at £180,000] Clauses ေတြကုိ phrases ေတြနဲ႔ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတယ္။ [an unlucky student` + [almost lost] + [a 17 th century violin worth almost £200,000] [when] + [he] + [left] + [it] + [in the waiting room of a London station] [William Brow] + [inherited] + [the 1698 Stradivarious violin] + [from his mother] [and] + [had just had it valued] + [by a London dealer] + [at £180,000] Clauses ႏွစ္ခု၊ သံုးခု စသည္ ေပါင္းစပ္ၿပီးေတာ့ sentence ေတြကိုဖြဲ႔စည္းပါတယ္။ An unlucky student almost lost a 17 th century violin worth almost £200,000 when he left it in the waiting room of a London station. William Brown inherited the 1698 Stradivarious violin from his mother and had just ...

That Clause ေအာက္ပါ verbs မ်ားေနာက္တြင္ that clause လုိက္ေပးတယ္။ Verbs of thinking Think, believe, expect, decide, hope, know, understand, suppose, guess, imagine, feel, remember, forget I hope that you will enjoy your holiday. She didn’t really think that it would happen. I knew that I had seen her somewhere before. Verbs of saying Say, admit, argue, reply, agree, claim, deny, mention, answer, complain, explain, promise, suggest They admitted that they had made a mistake. She argued that they should invest more in the business. The children complained that they had nothing to do. Note: tell and some other verbs of saying must always have a direct objective. Tell, convince, persuade, inform, remind We tried to tell them that they should stop what they were doing. The police informed everybody that the danger was over. That ကို ေအာက္ပါ Thinking, saying နဲ႔ဆုိင္တဲ့ nouns ေတြကုိ ေနာက္ကအထူးျပဳဖို႔ postmodifiers အေနနဲ႔လဲ သံုးတယ္။ Advice, belief, claim, feeling...

- ing noun လုိက္တဲ့ common verbs ေတြကေတာ့ - Verbs of liking and disliking Detest, dislike, enjoy, hate, fancy, like, love I love swimming but I hate jogging . They always enjoyed visiting their friends. Q: Do you fancy going for a walk? A: I wouldn’t mind. Phrases with mind Wouldn’t mind = would like Don’t mind = I’m willing to Would you mind = Will you please… ? I wouldn’t mind having some fish and chips. ( I would like having some fish and chips ). I don’t mind waiting for a few minutes. ( I’m willing to wait for a few minutes ). Would you mind holding this for me? ( Will you hold this for me please? ) Verbs of saying and thinking Admit, consider, deny, imagine, remember, suggest Our guide suggested waiting until the storm was over. Everyone denied seeing the accident. Other common verbs Avoid, begin, finish, keep, miss, practice, risk, start, stop I haven’t finished writing this letter. Let’s practice speaking English. Passive form of –ing ဒီ ...

1. အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြက to + infinitive လုိက္တယ္။ I decided to go home as soon as possible. We all wanted to have more English classes. Common Verbs Followed by to + infinitive Verbs of thinking and feeling Choose, decide, expect, forget, hate, hope, intend, learn, like, love, mean, plan, prefer, remember, would like, would love, etc. Verbs of saying Agree, promise, refuse, etc. Other common verbs Arrange, attempt, fall, help, manage, tend, try, want 2. အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြက a noun and to + infinitive လုိက္တယ္။ She asked him to send her a text message. He wanted all his friends to come to his party. ဒီပံုစံမ်ိဳး common verbs ေတြကေတာ့ - Verbs of saying Advise, ask, encourage, invite, order, persuade, remind, tell, warn, etc. Warn ကိုေတာ့ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ not နဲ႔တြဲသံုးတယ္။ The police warned everyone not to drive too fast. Verbs of wanting or liking Expect, intend, world, prefer, want, would like, etc. Other verbs with this pattern Allow, enable, force...

Reflexive Verbs 1. Reflexive pronouns Singular: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself Plural: ourselves, yourselves, themselves Direct object သည္ verb ရဲ႕ object နဲ႔ အတူတူျဖစ္ေနတဲ့အခါ reflexive pronoun ကို transitive verb ေနာက္ကထားတယ္။ I ’m teaching myself to play the piano. Be careful with that knife. You might cut yourself . Reflexive pronoun ေတြနဲ႔ မၾကခဏေတြ႕ရတဲ့ verbs ေတြကေတာ့- Cut, dry, enjoy, hurt, introduce, kill, prepare, teach Reflexive pronoun ကုိ object အျဖစ္သံုးလုိက္ရင္ အဓိပၸါယ္အနဲငယ္ေျပာင္းသြားတဲ့ verbs ေတြလဲရွိတယ္။ Amuse, apply, busy, content, behave, blame, distance, express, find, help, see Would you like to help yourself to another drink? ( Would you like to take another drink? ) I wish the children would behave themselves . ( I wish the children would behave well ). He found himself lying by the side of the road. ( He was surprised when he realized that he was at the side of the road ). I saw myself as a famous actor. ( I imagined that...