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CHAPTER 3<br />
There is vast room in <strong>English</strong> for us to develop our memory. Under the<br />
nickname "Globlish", <strong>English</strong> has over one million words now. This is<br />
after an increase of 0.4 million in a short span of 60 years. Words from<br />
foreign languages, from new technologies and new trades have flooded<br />
into the language. At school the average student learns about 3000-4000<br />
words a year. This figure came from the studies and experiments<br />
conducted by various educational institutions. In fact, after leaving<br />
school we still have, for personal need, to pick up new words, but the<br />
number dramatically comes down to about 50 words a year.<br />
It is well known to people that a good stock of words will give them selfconfidence<br />
and great power to build their thoughts on, so that their clear<br />
and convincing sentences will strike home.<br />
To achieve the end we can develop our memory and word power through<br />
the channels of well written songs, attractive wordings of advertisements,<br />
movies, videos and radios. The Bible, books, magazines and even talks<br />
to all sorts of people will also serve our needs to build up the vocabulary<br />
stock.<br />
However, knowing a word's meaning doesn't mean everything. We need<br />
grammar to clarify the writer's intention.<br />
A pretty red tie.<br />
If "pretty" is an adjective, it means a beautiful tie.<br />
If "pretty" is an adverb, it means the tie is very red.<br />
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