Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A Lesson in English Grammar

Did you know that "3 times bigger than" and "3 times as big as" are NOT the same?!

After much debate (in both English and Chinese) and several browsed websites, I confirmed this to be true. Americans general use them interchangeably, but of course Chinese are a little more mathematically wary than others...

Never have I thought more about the English language than since I started teaching 2 weeks ago...

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Byron Yee
TEFL English Teacher - Shenzhen, China

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