the causative verb: make

I happened to watch this vlog of my fave actress and was piqued grammatically by the title of her vlog: What Made My Sister Cry.

Automatically, I thought about my students, especially those who were not fond of learning languages and hated grammar rules.

Basin mangutana sila (Maybe they would ask ) : sister is singular; cry should be CRIES!

OK.

Because of the causative verb MAKE. And the rule says: causative verb plus person PLUS verb in BASE FORM (no s or other suffixes!)

note: other causative verbs are get, help, have, and let.

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idiom about the past

back in the day used for talking about a time in the past, usually when you are remembering nice things about that time : Back in the day , we had an apartment with a swimming pool . https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/back-in-the-day aspirekc.com ...

here's a website to help your pronunciation problem

the name of the website: upodn.com/phon.php piece of wisdom: if you are familiar with the IPA symbols --IPA means International Phonetic Alphabet--then this process is promising. the easy steps: 1. Just type in the word. 2. Press the Transcribe it button. 3. Check the bottom box for the pronunciation.

feeling diaristic

diary #1 my phone. bada bing! it died. there was some numeric command in an ominous dark background. after a few seconds, the background turned light green or was it bluish green. the problem could have been fixed right away, had i seriously read the fine prints. volume down button plus power button. the above nightmare gave me an invaluable lesson.

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