Spoken Sentence Structure
အေရးနဲ႔အေျပာဘာကြာသလဲဆိုရင္
အေျပာေတြက သိပ္ျပည့္ျပည့္စံုစံု မေဖာ္ျပဘူး၊ဝါက်ေတြတိုတယ္၊စကားလံုးေတြနည္းတယ္၊ပိုၿပီး႐ိုး႐ုင္းတဲ့ သဗၺဒၶ ေတြပဲသံုးတယ္။ေအာက္ပါဝါက်ႏွစ္ေၾကာင္းကို ယွဥ္တြဲေလ့လာပါ။
(A) While the hotel was of quite a high standard,the food was disappointing.
(B) The hotel was quite good,but the food was disappointing.
ဟိုတယ္ကေတာ့ တကယ္အပ်ံစားကြာ၊အစားအေသာက္ကေတာ့ စိတ္ပ်က္ဖို႔ေကာင္းသေဟ့။
ဘယ္ဟာက အေရးလဲ၊ဘယ္ဟာက အေျပာလဲ၊ယွဥ္ၾကည့္ရင္ သိပ္လြယ္ပါတယ္။(A)ကအေရး၊ (B)ကအေျပာေပါ့။အေရးကသိပ္သိပ္သည္းသည္းေရးတယ္၊အေျပာကေတာ့ လိုရင္း သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ (information) ကိုပဲေပးတယ္၊အဲ့လိုေပးတဲ့ေနရာမွာ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြက(separated out) ကြဲေနတယ္၊အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကို အပိုင္းပိုင္းေပးတယ္၊ၿပီးေတာ့ Subject - verb - Object order အတိုင္း မသြားဘူး။ေအာက္ပါ ဥပမာမ်ားကိုေလ့လာပါ။
The woman across the road,her brother,well,I was talking to him,I said.....
Last Wednesday it was,I was just going to work. . .
That lecture, I thought I was going to go to sleep. . .
They work very hard,most of the students.
ဟုတ္ၿပီ။ေအာက္ပါ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းကိုလုပ္ပါ။သူက အေျပာကို အေရး ေျပာင္းေပးရမယ္။ႏွစ္ေၾကာင္း ဥပမာလုပ္ျပေပးထားမယ္။ေျဖတဲ့သူ ဆယ္ေယာက္ရိွရင္ မနက္ျဖန္ အေျဖတင္ေပးမယ္။ကိုယ္တိုင္လဲေျဖပါ။သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကိုလည္း ေျဖဖို႔တိုက္တြန္းပါ။သၾကၤန္တြင္း အိမ္တြင္းပုန္းေနသူေတြ မပ်င္းရေအာင္ေပါ့။
(e.g)That car of his, is he going to sell it?
Is he going to sell his car?
(e.g) London, I think it was, where they met.
I think they met in London.
1.It's pretty difficult, the final exam.
2.Copy paper,look,can I order six boxes,top quality?
3.She is not doing very well,Sheila,in her new job.
4.Who's going to win?Labour?Conservative? Well, nobody knows.
5.Sunday morning,I was fast asleep,the phone rang, it was Ellie.
6.Trust them? This government? Not me!
7.France, this year, we can't afford to go.
8.They're all the same, TV programmes these days.
9.George, his daughter, she's not going to university, not this year.
10.Without Henry, that job, we could never have finished it.
Ref:
-Oxford English Grammar Course by Michael Swan & Catherine Walter
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English for advanced learners
- English - Myanmar dictionary
