I wonder why Shariif SAKIIN has that 'geniepige glimlach' on his face lol

My lessons were going very well untill I reached adjective identification. To be continued another time.... perhaps when I master adjective identification. I still have a long way to go. 5 and a half modules, to be exact. And I thought learning the basics of the English language would be easy The modules are: 1) Word and Phrase Patterns. (What we have been looking at so far.) 2) Cause Patterns 3) Verb Tense and Verbal Patterns 4) Verb Forms and Sentence Patterns 5) Puntuation and Capitalisation 6) Supplement: Troublesome Words.

kingofkings;823021 wrote: odeysomali, its not pre-noun, pronoun . Thanks sxb I've corrected it. kingofkings;823022 wrote: thanks for the thread. sure brings a lot memories in grammar school. No prob. I thought whilst i'm studying it, I might as well allow other SOLers the opportunity to learn/refresh their minds.

- A noun is a word that describes a person, place or thing. Example: consider the following nouns: “Alice Smith” is a person; “London, UK” is a place; and a “house” is a thing. - Pro-nouns are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence. Example: Consider the following: “Jack will attend. He will be late.” The pronoun “he”, takes the place of the noun “Jack”. Other pre-nouns include she, he, they, we, us, I, you, your, it, their, her, his, which, that, both, either, neither etc. Pro-nouns are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence. - A noun can be countable or uncountable. Countable nouns can be "counted", they have a singular and plural form . For example: A book, two books, three books ..... An apple, two apples, three apples .... - Uncountable nouns (also called mass nouns or noncount nouns) cannot be counted, they are not seperate objects. This means you cannot make them plural by adding -s, because they only have a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an or a number in front of them. For example: Water Work Information Sand Rice Music - A common noun is a word that names people, places, things, or ideas. They are not the names of a single person, place or thing. For example:- People:- man, girl, boy, mother, father, child, person, teacher, student Animals:- cat, dog, fish, ant, snake Things:- book, table, chair, phone Places:- school, city, building, shop Concepts:- love, hate, idea, pride - Proper nouns ( also called proper names) are the words which name specific people, organisations or places. They always start with a capital letter. For example:- Each part of a person's name is a proper noun:- Lynne Hand - Elizabeth Helen Ruth Jones ... The names of companies, organisations or trade marks:- Microsoft - Rolls Royce - the Round Table - WWW Given or pet names of animals:- Lassie Trigger Sam The names of cities and countries and words derived from those proper nouns:- Paris - London - New York - England - English Geographical and Celestial Names:- the Red Sea - Alpha Centauri - Mars Monuments, buildings, meeting rooms:- The Taj Mahal - The Eiffel Tower - Room 222 Historical events, documents, laws, and periods:- the Civil War - the Industrial Revolution - World War I Months, days of the week, holidays:- Monday - Christmas - December

Adjectives Adjectives are words that words that describe and “modify” nouns and pronouns. One-word adjectives usually come right before the word they modify and answer the questions: Which one ? or How many ? Example: The following underlined words are adjectives: red cars … expensive clothes … his book … Florida oranges … Sam’s smile… Five covers … Their house … The Story … A journey … Two-faced friend … Running water … Youngest son. There may be more than one adjective. See the examples below. Example: Red, blue, and green cars. Ford, Toyota, and Jeep cars. Small, medium and large sizes. Detached, terraced and semi-terraced houses. A long hot summer. The small brick house. That pretty Somali girl. The most common adjectives are the articles: the, a, an.

Compound Subjects More than one subject may be used for a verb. Often we use the conjunction “and” or a comma to combine nouns and pronouns as the subject of a verb. Two or more separate subjects make a compound subject. - Example: note the compound subject in the following sentence: “Boys and girls will be at the party”.

^ Buug iyo qalin soo qaado sxb

Compound verbs More than one verb may be used in a sentence. Often we use a common part of speech called a conjunction (and, but, or) or a comma to combine two or more verbs in a sentence. Two or more separate verbs make a compound verb. Example: Note the compound verb in the following sentence: “The performer sang and danced.” The common conjunction “and” is often used to connect nouns and verbs together to form compound parts. Notice how in the following sentences how “and” and the use of the comma can create a compound verb of two or more verbs. The pilot flew, landed, and taxied the airplane The surfer ran to the surf, jumped on his board, and rode a wave. Compound verbs may be verb phrases. Example: A compound verb is shown in the following sentence: “He was running and was breathing hard.”

Subject Identification Each verb of a sentence has a noun or pronoun subject. The subject usually comes before the verb and answers the question “Who or what does this action?” In the sentence “The team won the game.”, the noun “team” is the subject of the verb “won”. Who won ? The team won. The verb of a sentence is the most important word in finding the subject. Find the verb and you can then find the subject. So for example in the case of the following sentence : “His friends were in town.”, where finding the subject might seem confusing (and might be "his" or "friends"), by identifying the verb, we can identify the subject. The verb is “were”. Therefore “friends” is the subject (as it emmediately preceeds the verb).

^ Yes it is completely free sxb.

- Verbs can be combined to form verb phrases in sentences. Action verbs, state-of-being verbs and helping verbs may be/are combined to form verb-phrases. - Other special verbs called helping verbs may be combined into verb phrases. The verb phrase serves as the verb. Common helping verbs are: can, could, do, did, does, had, may, might, must, ought, shall, will, have, has. Example: The verb phrase is underlined in the following sentence: “The team will be leaving on Monday.” Will is the helping verb. Be is the state-of-being verb. Leaving is the action verb, - A noun is a word that describes a person, place or thing. Example: consider the following nouns: “Alice Smith” is a person; “London, UK” is a place; and a “house” is a thing. - Pro-nouns are words that take the place of nouns in the sentence. Example: Consider the following: “Jack will attend. He will be late.” The pronoun “he”, takes the place of the noun “Jack”.

Cheers KoK.

It is a really good and easy-to-use website !

^ A whole year in Asia, that sounds pretty cool G.S. Which countries did you teach in and what were they like ? O.K I need some help folks. Is "been" a helping-verb or state-of-being verb ? Thanks in advance.

So now I know that there are two types of Verbs: - Action-verbs are words that show action. For example : The boy threw the ball. - In addition to verbs of action, verbs are also words that state a fact or condition and show no action. These words are known as state-of-being verbs. The most common state-of-being verbs are am, are, is, were and was. For example, in the sentence "that man is my father", the word “is”, is the state-of-being-verb. :D

For those of us who were never taught English, or have simply forgotten their elementary English lessons, here is a very useful website: http://lessons.englishgrammar101.com/EnglishGrammar101/Foreword.aspx The menu on the left gives you an option of the topics you can study. For me, I think its about time I learnt what things like "noun", "verb" etc. mean and how it all works. I have found knowing this is a prerequisite if one intends to learn other languages (as the new language will be explained relative to the rules and grammer of the English language)

Mukulaalow;821086 wrote: ;) oo reer koonfureedka muxuu koofi ugu wada galiyey? That and the grey suits, signifies their adopting of communism

SpectaKooler;821040 wrote: So these are the preconditions? Foreign meddling and mediation , before any talks could resume? Why is that so important? AMISOM (Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone), Ethiopia, Kenya, America... etc. Foreign meddling is the way of the land, is it not ?

^ U sheeg Mayaani. The people on this website, day and night, hour after hour, day after day, expend their efforts on insult-hurling contests and silly arguments about clan villages and other petty issues. They have, for the most part, really let themselves and Somalis down. They seem careless/indifferent/ignorant about the real enemies and strategic issues facing us.

Kenya wants to annex the Somali Maritime Economic Exclusive Zone. (Reuters) - A row between Kenya and Somalia over their maritime border may deter multinational oil companies from exploring for oil and gas offshore east Africa, and a Somali official warned that the argument could escalate. The two coastal nations disagree over the location of their boundary line in the Indian Ocean. At stake are their legal claims to sell rights for exploration and collect revenue from any discovery. Kenya recently identified eight new offshore exploration blocks available for licensing, and all but one of them are located in the contested area. "The issue between Somalia and Kenya is not a dispute; it is a territorial argument that came after oil and gas companies became interested in the region," Abdullahi Haji, Somalia's minister of foreign affairs, told Reuters in Mogadishu. "If the argument continues unsolved, it will change into a dispute that may result at least in souring the deep relation between our two countries and (cause a) war at last," he said. East Africa has become a hot spot for oil and gas exploration, spurred by new finds in waters off countries including Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique. In the Horn of Africa, Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland and Somaliland regions have also licensed exploration blocks. Kenya announced its first oil discovery in March by British oil firm Tullow Plc, which was on land. The row between Kenya and Somalia threatens to upend some exploration rights that Kenya has granted to oil and gas companies, which have already started exploring in the area. French firm Total and Texas-based Anadarko and the only two companies so far holding licenses from Kenya to blocks in the disputed area. They have no immediate plans to drill there. Both companies declined to comment on the border issue. UN INTERVENTION? Martin Heya, Kenya's petroleum commissioner, said he was confident the United Nations, which could be requested to help delineate the border, would agree with his country's view, and he expected companies to continue their exploration activities. "Do you stop working just because the boundaries have not been determined? No," he told Reuters. Consultants involved in border demarcation said the two countries won't have a legitimate boundary until they sign a treaty that delimits the border, but that is unlikely to happen until Somalia has a stable government. Heya says the maritime border between the two countries should run horizontally east from the point at which the two countries touch on land. The practice in east Africa has been for boundaries to run along the line of latitude, Heya said. "For the time being, this is where we believe the border should be," he said, referring to the horizontal east-west maritime border. Somali officials say the onshore border continues into the ocean diagonally southeast and that a horizontal border would be unfair. If the Somalia-Kenya border was continuous from land into the ocean, making it lie diagonally from the northwest to the southeast, Kenya would be left with a small triangle in the Indian Ocean over which it could claim mineral rights. Kenya has had stable diplomatic relations with its war-torn neighbor, but the east African economic powerhouse sent troops into Somalia last October in pursuit of al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels, accusing the militants of cross-border attacks on its territory. UNSTABLE SOMALIA Joshua Brien, a legal adviser with the Commonwealth Secretariat, who has consulted with Kenya on maritime border matters, said the two countries won't have a legitimate boundary until they write and sign a treaty. The absence of a stable government in Somalia could hinder this process, he said. Somalia's government has been battling an insurgency by al Qaeda-linked rebels for years and barely controls the capital, even with the help of an African peace-keeping force executing a U.N. mandate to prop up its Western-backed government. It is unlikely it would have the ability to wage a war on Kenya. Brien also said the two countries' border disagreement is not unique. Throughout the world there are unresolved maritime boundaries. "It is not uncommon for maritime boundary issues to become heated, especially where petroleum exploration and development is concerned," he said. "In the case of Somalia, the matter is exacerbated by the governance and offshore security situation in that country, both of which are well known." Kenya is pushing on with oil and gas exploration, but petroleum commissioner Heya acknowledged the border dispute could cause problems in the future. Heya said companies will be unable to drill in their respective blocks until the boundary is settled, because it will be unclear where to direct revenue from a resource discovery. "Where the revenue goes is not apparent," Heya said. (Additional reporting by Mohamed Ahmed in Mogadishu; Editing by James Macharia and Jane Baird)

Well look at that. Where are the hordes who were applauding Kenya (and Ethiopia) when they were invading Somalia (which was entirely out of self-interest so as to achieve their own pre-determined goals). Kenya wants, not only this, but also the marine resources, if not more that were are yet to be aware of. Ethiopia wants to dismember Somalia, exploit the mineral resources in the Somali-Region, and dam the Jubba and Shabeelle rivers. Waa la inoo tashada si fiican. Inaguna, we are behaving in a self-destructive and despicable manner, arguing over clan and small villages in the middle of nowhere. All this whilst our neighbours, finding power and confidence in our weakness and faux divisions, are snatching up our assets and resources right/left and centre.

^ I suppose kuwii oran jiray Togdheer/Burco has a lot of water were not wrong. But otherwise, it seems that our two rivers, which Ethiopia intends to dam, are the ever more important to us. Bear that in mind folks.

Somali Woman Locks 5 Children In Closet, 2 Found Dead INDIANAPOLIS (CBS/AP) A Somali woman claims she "was not in her right mind" when she allegedly locked her five children inside a closet before leaving to visit a friend. Ten hours later she returned to find her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter dead inside. An Indianapolis police report released Tuesday said 28-year-old Edyan Farah allegedly put her five children in an upstairs closet, approximately 6 feet long and 18 inches deep, around 6:00 a.m. Sunday and barricaded the door with a large bed so the children could not escape. When Farah returned home about 10 1/2 hours later and opened the closet she found her 5-year-old daughter, Zuhur, and 3-year-old son, Zakariya, "stiff and unresponsive," according to the report. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20017258-504083.html