the benefits of reading (among students)

the benefits of readingJ

(part two)

Reading is one of most important things that we will learn in school or university. By reading, we can improve our knowledge and information also a lot of things as well. A week ago, I am myself, together with my group members was assigned to do some essay about the benefits of reading among students. Here are some benefits of reading that we had share during our presentation.

First of all, reading can reduce boredom. People are normally will have their time when they have nothing to do and being bored. So, when you are bored, why don’t try to pick some books and start reading. By choosing the right books, you will found out that reading can be attracting and you will at least stop being bored for a while. But it is also depends on what kind of story or book you are into as we have various interest and specialization. At the same time, you had improved your discipline by making time to read and stick to it.

In addition, by reading, we can improve our self-esteem. It is not hard to spend some of our time to read some books that actually will help us to become more knowledgeable as it will help us in our daily life by providing us enough information so that we have more self-assurance that will lead to high self-esteem. Through the knowledge we got from reading it has actually helps us improve our skills in socializing with people.

Another one benefits we can get from reading is that it is easier for us to make friends especially with the people from different places and country. As reading actually had limited our border of knowledge which will make us always have something to talk about. We can discuss and share about things in the books we read or even talk about others cultures and ethnicity of people, their customs, and their lifestyle without travelling. With more knowledge that we had from reading people will always find us for information right?

As a student, there’s a lot more benefits that we actually can get from reading. Instead of wasting our time doing nothing, there’s no wrong in adding this habit of reading as our hobbies as it actually can make the big changes in our daily life. Well if you never try you will never know. Let us together break this monotony of a lazy and bored life and filled it with information and ingenuity.

(this essay is still too long after i'd summarize it but the idea just dont wanna go.. haha... what shud i do then? without the correct words the meaning or what i actually wanna tell can't be perform well.)

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

I) What is a countable noun?

a) It is a noun which is for things we can count.
Examples of countable nouns: table, bag, school
We can say: one table, two tables... one bag, two bags...

b) It usually has a plural form:
Examples: table > tables | bag > bags | school > schools

II) What is an uncountable noun?
a) It is a noun which is for things we cannot count.
Examples of uncountable nouns: tea, sugar, water, air, rice.

b) Uncountable nouns are often the names for abstract ideas or qualities.Examples: knowledge, beauty, anger, fear, love.

c) They usually do not have a plural form. They are used with a singular verb. 
Examples: we cannot say "sugars, angers, knowledges".

d) We cannot use a/an with these nouns. To express a quantity of one of these nouns, we use a word or expression like:
some, a lot of, a piece of, a bit of, a great deal of...

Examples:He gave me a great deal of advice before my interview.
They've got a lot of furniture.

abstrack nouns.

definition:
a noun(such as courage or freedom)that names an idea,event,quality, or concept. that contrast with concrete noun.




example and observation

• "love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  (Robert Frost)
• "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
  (Erich Fromm)
• "Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
  (Candice Bergen)
• "When love is gone, there's always justice.
  And when justice is gone, there's always force.
  And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
  Hi, Mom!"
  (Laurie Anderson)
• "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
  (Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates")
• "Abstract and concrete are usually defined together or in terms of each other. The abstract is that which exists only in our minds, that which we cannot know through our senses. It includes qualities, relationships, conditions, ideas, theories, states of being, fields of inquiry and the like. We cannot know a quality such as consistency directly through our senses; we can only see or hear about people acting in ways that we come to label consistent."
  (William Vande Kopple, Clear and Coherent Prose. Scott, Foresman, 1989)
• "Although abstract nouns tend to be uncountable (courage, happiness, news, tennis, training), many are countable (an hour, a joke, a quantity). Others can be both, often with shifts of meaning from general to particular (great kindness/many kindnesses)."
  (Tom McArthur, "Abstract and Concrete." The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992)
• "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy--but that could change."
  (Dan Quayle)