The Basis campus sits in a tranquil environment. Multiple trail surrounds the campus.

Although Basis uses marketing media to make itself look good, the real face of this school is incredibly dark.

Shekou Basis International School has the highest suicide rate in all of Shenzhen’s schools. Five hundred thousand students have died since it was opened in 2023. They have committed suicide because of unfair scoring. Students experience numerous symptoms because of food poisoning. In addition, parents were always complaining about their ridiculous tuition. Therefore, Shekou Basis International school is terrible because of its high failure rate, poisonous lunches, and ridiculous tuition.

Shekou Basis International School has an alarming failure rate of 98.76%. School is a place to teach students how to be successful, not to fail. But many students have a GPA below 1.0 because of unfair scoring. Teachers are hypocrites. They act friendly in front of their superiors, but in front of students, they act like devils. Teacher are irritable and corrupt. They give points idly without any particular purpose or depend on their mood(which makes students get low scole because they are irritable), but they only give high scores to students who pay. This money supplements their meager salaries. There is a teacher in Basis called Mr Tomato. He is persistent about makes students fail. He gives students homework that is impossible to finish. Students spend their hard earned weekends on his pointless homework for those miniscule ten points. He takes pleasure in the suffering of his students. He loves to steal their youth away.

Shekou Basis International School has failed at food hygiene and safety inspections since its opening day. Everything is premade in the kitchen and the food is perishable. The food looks like sewer drudge. Flies, cockroaches and mold have infested the food supply. They think this is high level protein supplements for students. Also, to cut costs, schools force students to eat foliage. The truth is that 78% students and 67% teachers have contracted E. coli from eating maggot-corrupted hamburgers. Many people suffered from chronic gastritis, peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. There was a food recall to retrieve all the poisonous food, but unfortunately, they have already been eaten. The food poisoning has evolved into cancer, which causes disability. Students’ intestines have incurred unrecoverable injury. They can’t digest solid food anymore, and they realize that they desperately need life saving surgery. The school vaguely explains all of these to avoid punishments.

ref – https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/nouns.htm

Nouns are words that represent people, places, or things. Everything we can see or talk about is represented by a word.

Examples of Nouns

Here are some examples of nouns. (Notice that some have capital letters. We will discuss why later.)

• Person: soldier, Alan, cousin, lawyer
• Place: house, Shanghai, Beijing, factory, shelter, apartment
• Thing – This includes:
• Objects: table, car, pants, shoes, nitrogen, month, inch, cooking
• Animals: aardvark, rat, shark, Mickey
• Ideas: confusion, kindness, faith, Theory of Relativity, joy

Common Nouns

A common noun is the word for a person, place, or thing. It’s the word that appears in the dictionary. For example:

• person
• city
• dog

Proper Nouns

A proper noun is the given name of a person, place, or thing. It’s likely to be a personal name or a title. For example:

• Ricky
• Shenzhen
• China

A proper noun always starts with a capital letter.

Common Noun:Proper Noun combos

• boy:David
• sailor:Adam
• lawyer:Sarah
• mother-in-law:Janice
• city:Boston
• bridge:The Golden Gate Bridge
• tower:Eiffel Tower
• street:Norwood Place
• cat:Fido
• monkey:Bonzo

Abstract Nouns

Abstract nouns are things you cannot see or touch.

For example:

• bravery
• joy
• determination

Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are words that denote groups.

For example:

• team
• choir
• pack

Compound Nouns

Compound nouns are nouns made up of more than one word.

For example:

• court-martial
• pickpocket
• water bottle

Countable and Non-countable Nouns

A countable noun is a noun with both a singular and a plural form (e.g., “dog/dogs,” “pie/pies”). A non-countable noun is a noun without a plural form (e.g., “oxygen, patience”).

For example:

These are countable:
mountain (singular) / mountains (plural)
fight / fights
kiss / kisses
With no plural forms, these are non-countable:
food (always singular)
music (always singular)
water (always singular)

Typical day in the life of an American student

Elementary School

• Read a lot of adventure books.
• Write short paragraphs. i.e dinosaur
• Keep a journal.
• Graded on daily journal, short stories, and presentation of books read. This escapes memorization and test taking skills. It concentrates on demonstrating practice and investing time in learning.

Middle School

• Read non-fiction books
• Write Point Evidence Explanation paragraphs
• Discuss characters, storyline, and author’s perspective
• Graded case studies where we wrote about the characters and analyzed the stories. Demonstrate grammar usage and sentence structure. Encourages improving language usage.

High School

• Use figurative language in our essays.
• Essays would have multiple revisions.
• Our scores would depend on essays.
• We were graded mostly on reading, paragraph answers, and how we argued.

College

• Vocabulary usage, clarity, and flow
• quotation – illustrate a point, provide evidence, or add credibility to the writer’s argument
• citation – a word or a few details that tells us where that excerpt is from
• Multiple revisions with professional writer/professor.
• UCI 39A, 39B, 39C – scores depended on essays, their contents, and argument perspective.

A little kind turtle (subj) lives (verb) in a big green forest (obj). (2)

His name is Ted. (4)

Ted lives happily and loves (verb) [to swim] (obj). (3) and (9)

He has swam in a pond his whole life. (8, present perfect)

He (subj) loves (verb) [to eat] (obj) vegetables. (9)

He has a small head and a short tail. (2) and (2)

His heavy shell (subj) sits (verb) on his four short legs (obj). (2)

He (subj) is (verb) slow (adj) but very smart (adj). (6) but (6)

A confident rabbit (subj) lives (verb) in the same forest (obj). (2)

His name (subj) is (verb) Randi (obj). (4)

Randi loves [to run] in the woods. (8)

He looks healthy because he has eaten carrots his whole life. (6) because (8, present perfect)

Randi is too confident, so he challenges Ted to a race. (7) so (2)

Ted agrees. (1)

The race day arrives. (1)

The weather is really beautiful, and the sky is blue. (7) and (6)

All the animals arrive [to watch]. (12)

Randi sprints ahead, and laughs at Ted. (3) and (2)

Ted hears Randi, but he continues to crawl. (5) but (12)

Randi finds a tree to rest under and takes a nap. (12) and (7)

Ted sees Randi fast asleep, but continues to crawl. (5) but (12)

Randi wakes up and sees Ted cross the finish line. (3) and (6)

The animals cheer because Ted is the winner! (1) because (4)

Randi is fast, yet she loses the race. (6) yet (2)

The lesson is that slow and steady wins the race. (4)

ref – https://prowritingaid.com/infinitive-phrase

An infinitive phrase begins with the infinitive verb, usually with the word “to” in front. Here are a few examples of infinitive phrases:

Peter loved [to play guitar].

infinitive verb – to play
obj (noun) – guitar

the infinitive “to play” is paired with a direct object: “guitar.” Together, these make an infinitive phrase.

I told the kids [to dress quickly].

infinitive verb – to dress
adverb – quickly

An adverb (“quickly”) modifies the infinitive “to dress.”

Why do we use infinitive phrases? Infinitive phrases can add information or description to your sentences. They can strengthen your verbs and make your sentences clearer.

When an infinitive phrase functions as a noun, it can be a subject, an object, or a complement.

Here are some examples.

To win the tournament was our only goal.

Functions as subject:

infinitive verb – to win
complement – the tournament

To know genuine love is the greatest achievement in life.

Functions as subject:
infinitive verb – to know
modifier – genuine
complement – love

We want to buy an electric car.

Functions as direct object:

infinitive verb – to buy
modifier – an electric
complement – car

My only responsibility was to cook dinner every Sunday.

Functions as subject complement:

infinitive verb – to cook
complement – dinner
adverb – every Sunday

Infinitive phrases can also act as adjectives.

An adjective describes or modifies a noun. Let’s see what this looks like.

I’m bringing (verb) some candy (obj) to eat on the plane.

infinitive verb – to eat (describes candy)
noun – on the plane

Some days, I have the urge to quit my job.

infinitive verb – to quit (describes noun ‘urge’)
noun – my job

infinitive phrases can act like adverbs and modify a verb.

Usually, when an infinitive phrase is functioning as an adverb, it explains the why of the verb.

Here are some examples.

He bought flowers to apologize to his girlfriend.

infinitive verb – to apologize
modifiers – to his
complement – girlfriend

We went to the concert to see our favorite band.

infinitive verb – to see
modifiers – our favorite
complement – band

More Examples

as objects

as adjectives

as adverb

Infinitive phrases can have split infinitives.

Each of the infinitive phrase examples below features a split infinitive:

I need you to quickly respond to this email.
We need to greatly reduce our spending next month.
The presentation needs to succinctly explain our metrics and goals.
Split infinitives aren’t bad and they can make your infinitive phrases clearer. Try to avoid them in technical writing, but they are acceptable in less formal situations.

Do Infinitive Phrases Always Start with “To”?
Looking for “to” is an easy way to identify an infinitive phrase, but sometimes it’s not there! A bare infinitive is an infinitive without “to.” It appears after certain special verbs.

Little Red and the Wolf

Red is a cute, stupid，and naive girl. She has big round ears and her eyes are like stars. They shine brightly in the enchanting forest night. She has never learned anything useful until now because her mother spoils her. Her mother is always encouraging. She lives happily in an enormous forest. The forest’s towering trees are like huge umbrellas, and they cover miles upon miles of land. She has never left the forest.

The trip is exhausting for Red, but she is encouraged by her mom to deliver food and visit her grandmother. In her old age and frailty, she contracted COVID-19，Ebola, smallpox, cholera, HIV, and SARS all at the same time. However, she is extremely vigorous, so her body has been fighting these deadly diseases for a while now.

In the depths of the forest, a pair of ferocious eyes stare hungrily at Red. A wolf arrives ominously. He is starving and his slobber is a long river. He has eaten human flesh since he was only six month old. His habit for human flesh is incurable. He absolutely loves it because it reminds him of his youth.

After a while, he sees Red enter a dilapidated wooden house. She soon leaves again. He decides to wait in the wooden house so he can surprise her when she returns. He slowly opens the window, and crawls inside. He lands on the living room floor with a thud. The wolf sees a senile woman lying helplessly on a bed. The bed was old and looks like it’s going to collapse any minute. He can’t resist the wonderful taste of human flesh, so he voaciously swallows the grandmother, and spits out her clothes. After that, he wears grandmother’s cloth and pretends he is the grandmother.

When Red finally returns, the wolf quickly jumps out of bed. The wolf opens his frightening mouth really wide and swallows her in one bite. Then, he lies on the bed, and pats his big belly. All of a sudden, his stomach twists. He feels Red and her grandmother jumping from his stomach, and climbing up his esophogus. Then,they squeeze out of his throut, and the wolf regurgitates Red and her grandmother onto the living room floor.

The wolf sits there, tired from the vomiting. The wolf is exhausted. He realizes human flesh is not tasty anymore, and he can’t smell the aroma of the flesh. He feels tears running down his cheeks. He subconsciously wipes his tears away, but he realizes that it is not tears, his hand has been stained with blood. His arm becomes riddled with small bumps. His vision starts to become blurry, until it becomes dark. His heart starts to beat 200 times per minute and feels like a time bomb. He feels his chest has been pressed by a heavy rock. The wolf is frightened by his symptom. In a turn of event, he dies painfully on the ground.

Grandmother feels much stronger than before. She sniffs the sweet air. She realizes she is standing. Her diseases have magically cured. She never feels headache anymore, and she never haemorrhage. Even better, she can breath normally. She finally escapes from the devil’s hand. She feels invincible again. She slowly turns to Red and asks:”How about wolf steak for dinner?”.

Three Little Pigs

1) conjunctions (fanboy)
2) more adjectives
3) All description. No dialogue. No telling.

There were three toddle pigs live happily on a broad plain. After they were old enough, they decided to build their own house in this temperate spring.

The eldest brother casually saw some straws lying on the ground. He was very
lazy. Building his house was extremely hard for him. He has never finished anything in his life, but he was the master of sleeping. He slowly dragged the straws together, and comfortablely lied down on the straw under the glorious sun.

The two brothers went forward together, and as they walked, they saw a pile of wood in front of them. The yougher brother loved collecting woods. They are strong and beautiful, and their smell is refreshing. He used those wood to build his dream house.

The third pig was hardworking. He relocated the heavy bricks. The tenacious pig stacked them up together. They become a sturdy fortress，withstanding the blowing wind.

A starving wolf came. He is a skeleton. He hasn’t eaten anything for three days.
He saw a plump pig lied deliciously on the straws. His eyes glow golden. When the wolf was going to succeed, the lazy pig unexpectedly woke up. He froze when he saw the wolf. Then, he ran insanely for once in his entire life.

He rushed in his brother’s beautiful wood house. The wolf demanded them to open the door. They did not do the thing that only the idiot does, so the wolf inhales the air extremely hard and blow at the house. The wooden masterpiece disappears.

They ran into the strong fortress they brther made. The wolf tried to blow the brick house, but the brick house was as hard as a diamond. The wolf did not give up. He went into the chimney. Sadly, the fire was on, so the wolf died painfully.

grass & wood: uncountable
no s
brick: countable
+s

demand要求
The wolf inhales again to blow at the house.
The pig runs to his brother’s home.

A and B (sentences)
1.I am proud.
2.I am happy.
I am proud and happy.

I love to play basketball and video games.
I am thirsty and hungry
He is fat and ugly.

You can have Coca cola or Pepsi cola.
You prefer basketball or football.

If it is a question, please use an auxiliary verb like {do/does/did}.

Do you prefer basketball or football?

It is a boy or a girl?

If it is a question, please bring {be} to the beginning of the sentence.

Is it a boy or a girl?

I am handsome but I am bad on speech and debate.

I hate to waste time but I wasted time every day.

Simple present tense!

I hate to waste time but I waste time every day.

He is stupid but he is lucky.

Neither writing nor writing is friendly to me.

You mean {neither writing nor reading is friendly to me}?

Neither writing nor writing is friendly to me.

Neither hamberger nor ice-cream is healthy to me.

Watch your spelling! Hamburger!

Neither hamburger nor ice-cream is healthy (for) me.

I get a B on Biology nor get a G on speech and debate.

The usage of {neither…nor…}: double negation. Translated into Chinese as {既不…也不…}.

I neither get a B on Biology nor a B on speech and debate.

• student’s sentence
• Teacher’s suggestions
• Correction

He likes to runs.
He (subj) likes (verb) [to run] (object)。 To + verb = noun (Infinitive,即动词不定式,通过在动词原形前加to,创造一个具有名词性特质的短语)
第三人称单数作主语,其后动词加s(likes),但like的对象用「to do」动词不定式结构表示,这里的动词run是不需要加s的。
He likes to run.

She contempts to feeds the cat.
contempt?or{attempt}?. Again,{to do}动词不定式结构的动词feed不可以加s.
She attempts to feed the cat.

My dog catchs a stick.
第三人称单数作主语,其后动词以-s/-ss/-sh/-ch结尾,要加es.
My dog catches a stick.

We admire animals.
admire一般用于形容对「人」的敬佩和仰慕,对动物我们一般可以使用adore搭配,表示喜爱.
We adore animals.

He eats apple.
{apple} is a countable noun.You should use {an apple} or {apples} here instead.
He eats an apple.

She cooks pizza.
做披萨饼一般使用动词bake/make/order搭配pizza,不用cook搭配.
She bakes pizza.

Cats loves to eats fish.
Cats是复数名词,不需要在它的动词后加s.Again,{to do}动词不定式结构的动词eat不可以加s.
Cats love to eat fish.