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Easy Steps to Chinese Grammar ⭐

To mean "I don't have a car", should I say "我 不 有 车 (Wǒ bù yǒu chē)" or "我 没有 车 (Wǒ méi yǒu chē)" ? You can find out the answer in this episode.

Easy Steps to Chinese Grammar 

1. Negation of "有 (yǒu)" with "没 (méi)" 【A1】

Tea and the Industrial RevolutionA Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports

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Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?

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Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’

C and D parts will be added below.

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

IELTS READING & LISTENING & COMPREHENSION. Tea and the Industrial Revolution

「形容詞」の練習をしましょう！
Today's Drills are adjectives.
Let's practice declensions of いadjectives and なadjectives.
Repeat and practice both A and B parts:)

A：元気ですか
B：はい 元気です
　   いいえ 元気じゃないです

A：好きですか
B：はい 好きです
　  いいえ 好きじゃないです

A：忙しいですか
B：はい 忙しいです
　   いいえ 忙しくないです

A：おいしいですか
B：はい おいしいです
　   いいえ おいしくないです

A：昨日は大丈夫でしたか
B：はい 大丈夫でした
　  いいえ 大丈夫じゃなかったです

A：昨日は忙しかったですか
B：はい 忙しかったです。
　  いいえ 忙しくなかったです

＊＊＊＊＊＊＊
幸せです・なります
→  幸せになります

静かです・なります
→  静かになります

寂しいです・なります
→   寂しくなります

暖かいです・なります
→　暖かくなります

＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

大変です・去年の試験
→ 去年の試験は大変でした

有名です・なりました・リーさん
→ リーさんは有名になりました

元気じゃないです・昨日・私
→ 昨日私は元気じゃなかったです

寒いです・昨日の朝
→ 昨日の朝は寒かったです。

忙しくないです・今朝
→ 今朝は忙しくなかったです

悲しいです・なりました・卒業式の後
→ 卒業式の後、悲しくなりました。

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卒業式（そつぎょうしき）：graduation ceremony
〜の後（あと）：after
幸せ[な]（しあわせ）：happy, fortunate

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語ドリル (Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Drills)

3. 形容詞の基本　/ Adjective practices for beginners

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